Yet nations which pass gun control laws find that violent crime increases. Gun control on a federal level is obviously ineffective as well!
I started collecting links to cite as evidence, but everyone here [who disagrees with anything I say] is consistently too lazy to read them or respond anyway. There are multitudes of studies showing what I just said--in nations all over the globe. The only attempts to claim any measure of success measure only "gun" crimes and ignore the weapons which are substituted for guns when they're more difficult to get.
The "child" shootings are so high because they include anyone under 19, which includes many gangbangers. They're not white, so Obama and democrats don't care. And they use illegel guns anyway, so it'd only hurt tyrants' gun control cause if it was pointed out that they deliberately don't enforce nearly any gun laws on the books (there are many) in order to facilitate more crimes committed with guns (in order to fuel their disarm-the-people strategy to further tyranny).
The problem there is cultural, so lawmakers ignore it; it highlights the limitations of government power, and worse yet the damage done by generations living on welfare in Democrat-dominated neighborhoods where education is as horrible as the culture (drug problems, crime problems, 80%+ illegitimacy rate).
[I wish I could obey forum rules]