I know of, since 18, 3 kids who died from fistfights.
Two weren’t really fights. Head hit the ground and soul went to God, I hope.
Third was a full brawl and one kid died.
Fists are assault weapons.
Gonna hurt when they are all chopped off.
This will accomplish the same as US alcohol prohibition:
1. Create a monster parasitic hidden economy that avoids all taxes and regulation.
2. Creates a new sub-culture of citizens that will unite to hate their above ground government. Such anti-govt. attitude will bleed over into every subject and aspect of govt. regulation.
3. Out of spite and middle fingering by this new sub-culture, put many times more of these “banned” firearms in the possession of its citizens.
3A. Just as during prohibition, people would drink alcohol just to be part of the new “cool” sub-culture even if they didn’t want to drink. So it will be will “banned” firearms.
More people are killed every year in the US by fists and feet than are killed by long guns of all kinds, “assault rifles” included. If you add in the infamous “blunt object,” long guns are left in the dust. When are we going to ban “blunt objects,” fists, and feet? If it saves just one life ...