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Originally Posted by That Guy

I like how they left out hand gun deaths. i'd also like to see the study on malpractice deaths, as that seems kinda high. just wondering how they define the term.

No telling just from that picture. But as I recall, the fatalities from "assault weapons" is ludicrously low. Yet those guns are regularly touted as reason for gun control.

"I promise you, whoever's coming in is not going to," Biden said. "You don't need an AR-15 [assault rifle]. It's harder to aim. It's harder to use. And in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself.

"Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun," he said.

The vice-president, who is known for sometimes telling long, personal stories in his public appearances, is pushing Obama's plan for curbing gun violence after the December school shooting massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

But some of the proposals, including a ban on the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, have run into stiff opposition from the influential US gun lobby and its advocates on Capitol Hill.