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Originally Posted by Ledgem
This isn't about controlling you, it's about keeping you free but not allowing your freedoms to infringe on someone else's (and preventing others from infringing on your freedoms with theirs). As the saying goes, "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins."
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Actually it's not about control nor is it about keeping people free and protecting others' freedoms.
It's about getting elected and re-elected.
That's why the proposed "solutions" are brain-dead in the extreme. They're nothing but feel-good legislation, easy to promise, easy to pass, easy to throw away if they don't pass.
Our politicians are humoring us. They propose silly, unpopular, unworkable bills that do nothing and then sit on their hands and shrug, saying, "Hey, we tried!" when the bills are inevitably shot down.
Banning weapons that "look scary" doesn't do a thing. Banning magazines over 10-round barely affects anything except the reliability of weapons designed to use certain magazine sizes. Looking overly-broadly at peoples' medical history is just a privacy can o' worms waiting to explode.
You want to reduce gun violence in the US?
Reduce poverty.