You know you're in trouble when even Salon destroys the "assault weapon" myth

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11. It doesn't solve anything at all

How do we define assault rifles? By the definition of the 1994 law? That focused on cosmetic aspects of the rifles. The reality was that after the 1994 ban everybody could still purchase an AR15 that was functionally the exact same as an AR15 before the 1994 ban.

We could reinstate the 1994 ban tomorrow and it would literally stop zero people from walking into the next night club with an AR15 and maybe killing 100 people. 'It's better than nothing.' No, nothing is still nothing.

Want to get rid of AR15s? Ban semi-automatic rifles in general. But then you'd still have to figure out a way to get the tens of millions of existing semi-automatic rifles off the streets.