We in UK banned hand guns many years ago, after a mass shooting of children in Scotland in 1996.
Banning guns was not a big deal, as we never really had a 'gun culture' anyway.
Stict laws were put onto shotgun ownership for sport, ie. blowing birds out of the sky every fall for a few months.
Our major problem now is knives.
Stabbings, singular and mass, are daily occurences, and amongst the young in most major cities, being stabbed is sadly, a normal risk if you get into an argument.
Most tpypes of knife, with few exeptions are banned from being carried, but it has made not a jot of difference to the number of incidents, in fact numbers of stabbings are on the rise.
So just banning certain types of weapon is not always the panacea.
It takes a whole lot more, and that 'more' is the major stumbling block, and the million dollar question in getting a ban to work.
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