Crime and Criminals | Banning Semiautomatic Rifles Would Not Reduce Crime

In early 1998, Bill Clinton signed an executive order banning the importation of an additional 58 types of semiautomatic rifles into the United States. In the following viewpoint, Joseph Perkins contends that banning these weapons will not reduce crime rates. The imported “assault weapons” banned under the executive order are no different from semiautomatic weapons made in the United States, he maintains. The ban is simply part of an attempt to ban all semiautomatic weapons, he asserts. Perkins is an editorial writer for the San Diego (California) Union-Tribune.

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