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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Australia banned a certain class of weapon....semi-autos and it worked for them. And they are a democracy much like the US
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Well, gun violence went down after they were banned. There is no doubt correlation. I am not sure if it was causation. Might be. Hard to say, there are too many unknown variables.
I have no problem trying it, but I don't feel we should stop trying anything else until we can get everyone onboard for that too. That is a poison pill in any bill proposed.
My suggestion (one sent to my congress critter) is to only propose single topic legislation for addressing the "gun violence" issues. Start with the shoe-in's. Universal Background checks (70% to 90% of Americans can/do support that) That should be a single topic bill and passed into law. Also, school hardening - some forms. That is not as big a shoe-in as background checks, but generally acceptable.
The omnibus laws to cover everything are doomed. And the worse part is the politicians promoting them KNOW they are not going to pass, so to me the only reason to ever submit them instead of single topic bills is to score political points.
Let's do what we can do. Let's leave the things we can't do on the table and continue to try to find compromises that will get them passed. But, an old saying in program management is "Don't let perfection be the enemy of good enough", I would say in this topic, that could be changed to "Don't let perfection be the enemy of doing ANYTHING for 20 years".