Deadliness/volume is a losing policy argument. There are between 4x and 7x as many knife homicides as assault rifle (or rifle of any kind) homicides in any giv

Deadliness/volume is a losing policy argument. There are between 4x and 7x as many knife homicides as assault rifle (or rifle of any kind) homicides in any given year. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... The single most-common weapon used is a handgun, around 4x as common as knives. But the Supreme Court has unambiguously ruled on the constitutionality of handgun bans and refusal to grant handgun licenses. And even under the most expansive gun control position that the Second Amendment only protects guns that existed in 1789... well... pistols were invented in the late 1500s.