Against. The horse has already left the barn (there are more guns in private hands than people), America has a gun fetish (you can’t change the culture that is built on settler colonial violence), and the assault weapon ban in the 90s didn’t do anything so why do we think doing another one would be different. (I think the economy doing really well in the 90s explains the drop off in gun deaths and mass shootings, not the ban).
They were subject to the AWB, in the sense that their magazine capacities were reduced to 10 rounds (there was however a grandfather clause for all existing magazines)
Against. The horse has already left the barn (there are more guns in private hands than people), America has a gun fetish (you can’t change the culture that is built on settler colonial violence), and the assault weapon ban in the 90s didn’t do anything so why do we think doing another one would be different. (I think the economy doing really well in the 90s explains the drop off in gun deaths and mass shootings, not the ban).
particularly the gun deaths that were reduced was handguns, which were not subject to the AWB.
They were subject to the AWB, in the sense that their magazine capacities were reduced to 10 rounds (there was however a grandfather clause for all existing magazines)