# 10 year old Assault Weapons Ban expires in 5 days - Are we less safe if that happens?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 9, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-year-old-assault-weapons-ban-expires-in-5-days-are-we-less-safe-if-that-happens/263728 "2004-09-09T03:25:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvilGhandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@EvilGhandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilGhandi)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-year-old-assault-weapons-ban-expires-in-5-days-are-we-less-safe-if-that-happens/263728/41 "2004-09-15T05:16:29Z")

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Fear itself,

Here is a non PDF version of the CDC report, completly automated to pull whatever statistic out you want.

[http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html](http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html)

For instance I punched in your figures and got pretty much the same results you posted. But when I requested “violence related deaths” Which I guess the CDC doesn’t classify as homicide. I got a whopping 51k and some change.

Not sure what that means. Possibly those deaths were all classified as “manslaughter”.

Any way it’s a fun tool to play around with.

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