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Originally Posted by Dan02
not sure that one exactly qualifies as a assination attempt, unless of course you're counting the Iraqi Journalist hucking his shoes at Bush a assination attempt too.
If you don't think that outlawing certain firearms will decrease the amount of firearms on the street then i suggest the fool might be looking back at you in the mirror. Eliminate? no it won't, reduce? most certainly will.
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As I said before, these were not exactly stellar attempts, but to link the number of assassination attempts strictly to the availability of firearms is a bit myopic, in my opinion.
I would suggest that people who are looking to commit a crime with a gun are not exactly concerned with whether it is outlawed or not.
Illegal gun trafficking is a pretty lucrative business already, I would assume it would only become moreso.
The only area in which there would be an impact would be in the theft of firearms from private residences. These firearms would be assumed to have been turned in during the "Great American Gun Giveback."
Plus, the last time "assault weapons" were restricted under the Brady Bill, any existing firearms that fit the bill were grandfathered in. It wasn't like you were required to turn them into the local police department, you just couldn't purchase them.
I'm pretty sure the scofflaws found ways around that.