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Content: “But I also share your belief that weapons that  were designed for  soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our  streets. And so what I’m trying to  do is to get a broader conversation  about how do we reduce the violence  generally. Part of it is seeing if  we can get an assault weapons ban  reintroduced. But part of it is also  looking at other sources of the violence. Because frankly, in my home  town of Chicago, there’s an awful lot of violence  and they’re not using  AK-47s. They’re using cheap hand guns.” Once again  “Assault Weapons” were all the talk,  and suddenly every politician who thought  they needed a few more votes  was taking a stance against them. The President,  in his comment was purposefully  deceitful as he blended the facts about what  exactly is being used by  violent criminals while committing deadly acts of  crime. As to the  “automatic weapons on  the street”, this is simply not true either as a  miniscule percentage of  “automatic weapons” are used to commit these  deadly acts on American streets or  elsewhere in America for that  matter. Two issues are at play here: