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The goalposts have already been massively moved.
The post is about AR-15s. All rifles combined are used less than 3% of firearm homicides, which combined make up approximately 1/3rd of firearm deaths.
By including all firearm deaths in a discussion about AR-15s we're suggesting they're 100 times deadlier than they are.
ARs don't actually have a huge impact. It's why the sunset of the AWB was kinda ignored. Every study of the AWB's impact showed no statistically-significant impact from the AWB, so there wasn't much effort to keep it going at the time.
The guns that are involved in almost all homicides, suicides, and accidents aren't ARs. They're pistols. When the AWB expired, the gun control crowd focused on them almost exclusively. But then around 2009 messaging suddenly changed and ARs were the most evil thing in the universe again.
In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in DC v Heller that handguns were protected. Suddenly gun control groups had a problem. They couldn't ban handguns without a constitutional amendment, and they needed to justify their existence.
So they changed messaging and started going after ARs bigtime. They created a political climate that drove unhinged crazy people to go buy ARs to spite the Brady Foundation, and the AR became the most popular firearm platform in the country.
Then, wonder of wonders, the most popular gun was used in more crimes.
It's like saying F-150s are more dangerous than Cybertrucks because more F-150s get in wrecks.