US murder rate close to historic lows.

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If nut jobs couldn't get their hands on assault rifles and such, the rate would drop dramatically, too.

Personally, I don't see the need for people to own an assault rifle. However, we don't live in some sort of bubble where these bans haven't been done before. We have tons of case studies across the board. Where was the dramatic drop in the crime rate in the UK (or other countries, the UK is just the example I'm most familiar with) when their gun laws went into effect?

When they UK gun laws went into effect, the murder rate went up for the next decade. Now correlation isn't causation, but the promised drop in the murder rate seems largely to be a myth. I think if gun control reduced murder, it would be very cut and dry. You'd show the countries the enacted gun control and show how the murder rate went down right afterwards. That just isn't the case though and it needs to be pointed out. Instead the stat 'gun murder' had to be invented just to fool people into thinking this is the case.