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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nimnim" data-source="post: 1081390" data-attributes="member: 28856">Actually assault weapons are banned for the majority of the public unless they want to go through tons of regulations. Just because the weapon looks scary doesn't mean it's an assault weapon.Now the bigger issue is how many gun related deaths there are annually not the mass shootings. Rough figures, around 32000 in 2011. Mass shootings less than 2k. So if people are looking to reduce "gun violence" it's not in attempting to stop mass shootings, but in properly enforcing existing gun laws and making sentences stricter for those that commit gun related crimes. That won't completely fix this issue, no, but it'd do better than attempting to stop one nutjob who illegally acquires a weapon and kills 15 people, vs 100 people who illegally acquire a weapon and kill 120 people.</blockquote>