To date this year in the U.S. there have been 46,805 gun-related incidents, 11,716 deaths and 23,756 injuries. Even if it could be done - which is highly improbable - the banning of assault and high powered weapons would not go very far in curbing the annual slaughter south of the border. Those that support gun control continue to be distracted by the symptom - the NRA - when the underlying culprit is a U.S. culture that has always celebrated and romanticized violence and the military (just watch TV and the movies). My goodness, even liberal's like Bill Maher have guns to protect themselves. And if I lived in such a violent, racially and economically divided country like the U.S. I would probably own one as well. There will never be meaningful gun control because U.S. culture and to a lesser extent politicians in the pockets of dark money, won't let it happen. And sadly its only a matter of time before Canada suffers a similar fate. U.S. popular/media culture will ensure it.