The assault weapon ban was found to have no effect on the murder rate because mass shootings account for 1% or less of all murders
So thinking that banning one type of rifle will have an effect on the murder rate has been shown to be incorrect.
THE ASSAULT RIFLE BAN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MURDER RATE YOU ******* IDIOT.
Jesus ****, how many times does it take for a dumbass like you to get it.
It wasn't passed to stop mass shootings either. It was passed as a bill against all violent crime
WHo's the dummy now?
The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?
"Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act" — commonly called the assault weapons ban.
It prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons that could be converted to fire automatically. The act also banned magazines that could accommodate 10 rounds or more.
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"Assault weapons — military-style firearms designed to fire rapidly — are a threat to our national security, and we should treat them as such," Biden wrote in his weekend op-ed. "Anyone who pretends there's nothing we can do is lying — and holding that view should be disqualifying for anyone seeking to lead our country."
The earlier ban was enacted as a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, an election-year package meant to show that Democrats were "tough on crime."
Times were different then. More Americans said they worried about violent crime and the threat associated with criminals armed with powerful weapons.
So among other things, Biden and Democrats got behind stricter sentencing guidelines and expanding the category of federal crimes punishable with the death penalty.
At the time, Biden defended the legislation against charges of weakness by saying: "We do everything but hang people for jaywalking in this bill."