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To: combjelly who wrote (947285)	7/16/2016 5:29:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576865

No evidence of modest improvement from it. Crime, and shootings did go down when it was in effect, but they also went down before it was passed and after it was repealed. The same applies to Australia on its more extreme gun control, and to New Zealand which had a similar drop without a huge increase in gun control. Getting back narrowly to the "assault weapons" ban it makes not sense that it would have any effect since someone who is going to commit murder (and esp. mass shooting) isn't going to be all that concerned about gun laws, but more importantly since there are any number of weapons that were not covered. A more general ban on semi-auto weapons might theoretically have a modest positive effect but probably not. It would require a police state to enforce considering how many weapons there are in the US, it would preferetially disarm (or reduce the armament of) law abiding people which would make things easier on criminals (to the extent that going from semi-autos to revolvers or pump action or lever action weapons would really reduce capability that much), and murderers could just use non-semi-auto weapons if they cared so much about violating weapons laws (mass murders could use multiple revolvers and a shotgun, or they could be snipers, or they could use bombs or trucks etc.)