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Actually statistics abound showing that pistols are, by far, the weapon of choice for most crime. It is not convenient or discrete to walk about with an AW, while a pistol in your pocket or waistband is very handy and discrete. While mass shooters do not generally care about escape most criminals are after money and/or revenge and wish to live to enjoy it.
True. If you're going to measure danger by the aggregated total of deaths, then pistols are by far the most dangerous. However, that's not the only way to measure danger
If you were to measure it by looking at the weapons used in the individual incidents with the greatest number of gun fatalities, rifles, particularly assault rifles, are common at the top of that list.