For every law enforcement official that supports gun bans, there are just as many that realize their futility. I would add that they are also a waste of government resources and time.

"I think it makes most police officers uncomfortable knowing the amount of fire power that is out there and available to the percentage of the population that would use it for evil purposes," said David Lain, chief deputy of the Porter County's Sherrif's Department.

"But I don't see that, ban or no ban, that it's going to affect what weapons the bad guys are able to get ahold of." [...]

"I haven't seen that the ban has made much of a difference," Jeff Wells said. He is a 15-year veteran of the Lake County coroner's office, which processes about 80 homicide scenes each year in which firearms are involved.

He said the number of victims riddled by semiautomatic weapons are rare. "I remember one case three years ago where three kids were killed in a van in Hammond. There were a lot of bullet casings at the scene," he said.

The simple fact is that criminals will always have guns, and there is absolutely nothing the government can do about it. We can't keep guns and knives out of our prisons or off of our airplanes, what makes them so naive that they think we can keep them out of the hands of private citizens?