Because the Crime Prevention Analysis Heart has identified many, many occasions, tv crime reveals appear to suppose criminals are always utilizing machine weapons to commit crime. In actual life, criminals typically use machine weapons so not often that a 2016 survey of jail inmates solely broke down the numbers for makes use of in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey didn’t even point out totally computerized weapons. An identical discovering is obtainable from the FBI UCR report the place 2.6% of all murders contain rifles of any kind and 0.3% of all murders contain unspecified “different weapons.” There’s a cause for that. Since 1934, there was just one doable recognized use ever of a civilian utilizing a machine gun in a homicide. And even earlier than 1934, they had been very uncommon.
CBS’ FBI Most Needed (Season 6, Episode 5, Nov 18, 2024) reveals some severe robbers with machine weapons.
Extra examples of one of these bias are out there right here.
Here’s a video on Hollywood’s bias in opposition to weapons.
