[marktwain]

If we can get him to understand that gun registration is counterproductive, it would be helpful.

[Morpheus2009]

But what about handguns, bolt action rifles with magazines, etc? The question should always be what is next?

[ctdonath2]

Counterproductive?
NY banned them.
4% compliance rate.

Not a good sign when otherwise law abiding citizens would rather be felons than comply.

[junta]

I am guessing that this man thinks that people outside of his clique are basically fungible, but deep down inside he has those nagging doubts. So import a new group of people who have no respect for the laws and you end up with Third World LA, and while he sits atop and helps rule that mess, everyday that mess moves closer to his little West LA sanctuary.

[RC one]

There is no assault weapon problem in America. The assault weapon issue is complete bull***t fabricated by left wing journalists and politicians with ulterior motives.

It's worth mentioning that the graph doesn't even differentiate between rifles that would be considered "assault rifles" and rifles that would not be considered assault rifles.

If it did, the insignificance of this so called issue would be even more clear than it already is.

Death by assault rifle is rare in America but when it happens, it is exploited by these journalists and politicians in order to further an anti-second amendment agenda that never ends.

They are not interesting in protecting your children, they are interested in enslaving them.

[ThunderSleeps]

There are approaches to gun control, such as universal background checks and cracking down on rogue gun dealers, that can reduce the daily death toll from guns.

Unsupported by any evidence. So-called "universal" background checks are a joke. They are based on the fantasy that when a criminal purchases a firearm from another criminal that they will obey the UBC law while preparing to break so many others, and that UBC will stop the transaction.

There are roughly 500,000 violent crimes committed each year with a firearm. If we estimate that a criminal obtains a firearm and uses it in say 10 such crimes (total guess here) before losing/discarding it, then that means there is a market/need for 50,000 illegal firearms coming into the "supply chain" each year. For comparison, there are roughly 20 million purchases - with background checks - from licensed dealers each year.

This points out that going after the "supply chain" by trying to force "universal" background checks is utterly futile. They are looking for that 0.25% in a field of 99.75% legal purchases... Even if they somehow succeeded - I have literally no idea how anyone could make "universal" background checks succeed - all they would do it induce criminals to hold onto firearms longer and/or raise the value of firearms that did make it into the criminal food chain. This extra value would actually be an incentive to commit more crimes to obtain that valuable commodity.