(02-26-2018, 05:05 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(02-25-2018, 02:50 PM)Sneakers Wrote: What makes this so difficult to understand?

What makes my point, irrelevant to your edit, so difficult to understand? The main reason restrictive gun laws do not work in, say, Chicago is because the gun laws in nearby Indiana are permissive.

They may find some other weapon, but not one with multiple target lethal capability from a distance.

The reason for the high murder rate in Chicago is Chicagoans, not gun laws or lack thereof. The same Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta, Houston, Jacksonville, and every other city or town in the world.

P.S. - Rifles and so called "assault weapons" continue to lag far behind other methods of murder. And the "assault weapons" ban of 1994 didn't do a damn thing to prevent murders. So says noted Republican and NRA house organ The New York Times.

The Assault Weapons Myth

FTA: 

But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.

It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.

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