The original bill does nothing to address gun violence and instead seeks to solve the issue by doing something which is tried and true failure: banning things they don’t like. To add fuel to the fire, it makes itself pretty much totally ineffective by doing nothing about the tens of millions of so called assault weapons already on the streets. Either go all the way or don’t even bother. Any sort of criminal who wants to commit a crime with one of these weapons faces only a minor inconvenience in getting them - and if they can’t get it at all they’ll utilize other methods. Cars, trucks, many other types of gun. It’s playing whack a mole without actually doing anything to solve gun violence problems.
Add in that it’s an assault on individual freedoms, a manifestation of the nanny state, and you have just a few of the reasons why this bill never should have been passed. I’m urging a total repeal.
I urge all members of congress to block this attempt to go backwards!
Things aren't always so simple Windjammer. For instance there are situations you conclude that going further only yields diminishing returns and/or going further is not worth the price paid for such in order to achieve the desired objective. Alcohol prohibition would be an example of such in practice and how it came apart in the end.
