If the reasons people use guns illegally is NOT addressed, they will continue to kill, with or without the specific guns that are being banned. Since it is trivial to ( illegally) make an AR-15, and a high capacity magazine ( both illegal here in MD- So I guess we have to crime?) how does preventing legal law abiding citizens from having them serve to reduce killings? ( and it doe NOT, but that seems another topic not to be discussed here.)

Mrrzy,

You do not address my post- And the purpose of deterrence is still fulfilled by POSSESSION by law abiding citizens, which seems to be what you are saying should be prevented.

If discussion of REASONABLE, EFFECTIVE laws is stupid, then we have a bigger problem here than a few tens of kids being killed by guns THAT ARE ALREADY ILLEGAL!