Your response was largely a strawman, and your confinement to these at-the-margins assault weapons bans is a dishonest argument. No, merely banning specific types of guns doesn’t always fix the problem, particularly when decades of flooding our society with all other kinds of guns and ammunition...
Imagine if there were other countries on planet earth with policies that could demonstrate what works and doesn’t work vis a vis gun violence (or anything else).
Guess we’ll never know!