Priorities, priorities...

Here is how WA Congressional delegation thinks about relative importance of "Assault Weapons" ban...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5087/cosponsors?q=%7B%22cosponsor-state%22%3A%22Washington%22%7D

...vs for example Universal Healthcare...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676/cosponsors?q=%7B%22cosponsor-state%22%3A%22Washington%22%7D

Regardless of where you stand on how and whether guns should be controlled and how and whether universal healthcare should be provided, you will probably agree that...

• These are positional statements, as neither bill has any chance of advancing in Republican congress
• Lack of healthcare kills vastly more people than "assault weapons", given that all rifles kill around 250 people a year

So now we know what the priorities of our elected representatives are - and they are not about saving lives.