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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 2897" data-source="post: 350280"><p>An assault rifle is just a rifle. It's no different than a handgun. Which we should call an assault handgun to be consistent and wrong. Rifles just look scary, that's it.</p><p></p><p>Australia was able to buy back one-third of their guns. But it had no measurable effect on gun deaths. If you look at the chart from several years before the buyback until now, you'd never be able to guess what year the buyback was.</p><p></p><p>Assault guns (to again be wrong but use the term people love) will never go away. Because semi-automatic guns is nearly all people buy. If you had a gun in your house for protection, 2 guys break in to rob you, and you have to reload every couple shots - no way. You might as well not have a gun.</p><p></p><p>In terms of background checks, they are much more stringent than driving. Nobody does a background check for driving a car. Nobody does a mental health check for driving a car. Now having said that, this guy had no mental health issues or anything, so it didn't matter anyway.</p><p></p><p>Countries with no guns have double the violent the crime we have. So all this hand wringing about gun deaths isn't the whole story. If we swapped crime stats with the U.K. , we'd have 30,000 gun deaths gone each year - but we'd have TEN MILLION more violent crimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 2897, post: 350280"] An assault rifle is just a rifle. It's no different than a handgun. Which we should call an assault handgun to be consistent and wrong. Rifles just look scary, that's it. Australia was able to buy back one-third of their guns. But it had no measurable effect on gun deaths. If you look at the chart from several years before the buyback until now, you'd never be able to guess what year the buyback was. Assault guns (to again be wrong but use the term people love) will never go away. Because semi-automatic guns is nearly all people buy. If you had a gun in your house for protection, 2 guys break in to rob you, and you have to reload every couple shots - no way. You might as well not have a gun. In terms of background checks, they are much more stringent than driving. Nobody does a background check for driving a car. Nobody does a mental health check for driving a car. Now having said that, this guy had no mental health issues or anything, so it didn't matter anyway. Countries with no guns have double the violent the crime we have. So all this hand wringing about gun deaths isn't the whole story. If we swapped crime stats with the U.K. , we'd have 30,000 gun deaths gone each year - but we'd have TEN MILLION more violent crimes. [/QUOTE]
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