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Originally Posted by glatt
Local gun restrictions don't work. Guns are small and easily smuggled across local borders where there are no border controls. Border controls only exist on the national level, and that is the only level where gun restrictions have a chance of working.
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While homicides with guns are down, nationally, they have increased dramatically in Chicago - which has very strict gun control laws.
On the other hand, homicides with guns are down in New York City, which also has strict gun control laws.
In California, we've had a HUGE increase in the number of guns, since Obama became president. The recent gun show in Ontario, CA had people waiting for 3 hours to get in - and the number of people allowed in had to be restricted nearly all day because they would otherwise grossly exceed the occupancy limit set by the fire dept.
There is NO ARGUMENT that Obama has been the best thing that ever happened to gun shops and shows in CA -- since EVER.
And our gun homicides have decreased, despite the large increase in firearms owned by the public.
And if you MUST call any rifle an "assault" rifle, you should know that NONE *ZERO* of the rifles being sold today, would qualify.
Assault rifles (which are made to assault the enemy in war), ALWAYS have a full automatic setting. No rifles sold to the public in the US, have that feature. That's been true since the 1930's.
The rifles you see today may look the same, because they use a lot of black plastic for the stock, etc., but they are NOT assault rifles. They are ordinary semi-automatic rifles with plastic, instead of the traditional wooden, stock.