Furthermore, University of Chicago professor (and co-author of the bestseller Freakonomics) Steve Levitt has noted that most proposed gun controls have minimal impact on gun crime.

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"It's too soon to say, " she said, commenting on how the sniper case might impact the seemingly perennial gun control political debate.

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Harry Moroz over at Next American City and Richard Florida of The Atlantic, having both analyzed data provided by the Centers for Disease Control from 2006-2008, came to similar conclusions when looking at the impact of inner cities on gun deaths.

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Recent gun violence have had little impact in swaying the public, despite the outrage at the time of their occurrence.

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However, the law's impact was limited by its narrowness that made it easy for gun manufacturers to evade.

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The study did point out that since assault weapons were used no more than "8% of gun crimes, even before the ban, " its impact was likely too small to reliably measure.

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But I know that Senator Flake, for example, talked about the impact that that had on his standing in the state of Arizona with voters in Arizona, including with gun owners in Arizona.

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