[CS-FSLUG] PD: BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS DIDN'T REDUCE VIOLENCE

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Quoting Fred Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>:

>     According to recent surveys by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS),
> firearms-related crime has declined to record levels. The violent crime rate
> has
> fallen 54 percent since 1993, and there were more than 980,000 fewer violent
> crimes in 2002 than in 2000.
>
>     But in the past three years, according to the BJS, federal gun
> prosecutions
> have increased by 68 percent, with the number of persons charged with federal
> firearms offenses rising by more than 22 percent in fiscal 2003, the largest
> single-year increase ever recorded.<B></B>

Thought: introduce more laws, and therefore spend more time prosecuting people
for violating them.  The earlier paragraph seems to suggest that there was a
significant drop in violent crime, although how much of this might be due to
said ban is a matter of debate.

Dave