No it isn't and making all semi auto long guns or even hand guns illegal isn't going to make much difference to gun crime either, considering our close proximity to the US.
Not true at all. If this was the case, our gun control measures currently in place wouldn’t be working. They clearly are, as we have much lower gun crime rates than the USA.
I believe ours are in line with other western democracies... so why aren’t they a lot higher, since you contend that the USA makes our controls moot?
I'm not a proponent of guns for self defence against other humans or the idea that gun possession is some kind of deterrent to bad guys. I do have a problem with a mentality that makes good guys the target just because they own one of these things.
To eliminate the bad guys getting the guns, the good guys will have to lose their guns. Finding the balance is the key... personally, I don’t think we’ve gone far enough yet.