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Why? The last one had no discernable impact on crime, and the violent crime rate has been steadily dropping since the end of the last ban. "Assault weapons" are really really low on the list of things that people actually kill eachother with. Hammers, knives, and swimming pools are all exponentially more likely to kill you and will account for far more deaths every year

People keep talking about common sense, well common sense dictates that going after "assault weapons" which are the least commonly used weapon in violent crime, is pretty dumb. Especially considering that bans have never actually accomplished anything other than to create black markets ran by gangs who are responsible for the vast majority of violent crime in this country [/quote]

Yes, I agree with you, the assault weapons ban should not be the first, last, and only item of gun regulation we pass.

School shootings are rare. If we never had another school shooting, it would make no meaningful difference in the national homicide rate. Nonetheless, we all agree that we should try to prevent school shootings -- right?  Or do you think we should address the categories of violent death in order, and we shouldn't do anything about #2, #3, #4, and so on, until we've perfectly solved #1?

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10 times as many people are killed each year by iatrogenesis.  10 times!

Children even!  All we have to do is ban doctors.  Wouldn't you be willing to ban doctors [i]to save one life[/i]?
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