text: tigerwarrior,
  
  Newsflash for you:  the overriding reason the Assault Weapons Ban was allowed to sunset after ten years was because there was no persuasive evidence that it worked.  
  
  Quite simply (from Wikipedia.org) :
  
  "The Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent, non-federal task force, examined an assortment of firearms laws, including the AWB, and found 'insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence'."
  
  It goes without saying this is very old news. 
  
  Now granted, if by reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban your intent is to keep bureaucrats employed and to support the passage or continuation laws that don't work, that's one thing, but by all means be explicit about it.  Just don't claim your intent is to prevent violent crime.  That would be disingenuous, if not an outright falsehood.
  
  Now, care to try again?