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4. I agree, in part.

One thing that has long bothered me is that our lawmakers often legislate things about which their knowledge is woefully inadequate, and quite obviously so to any who actually do know about the subject. On the left, gun laws are where I have seen this most frequently. Ironically, it was Trump who finally enacted a gun reform that actually does make sense, when he banned bump stocks. Such a ban has support even among sane gun owners for the simple reason that it regulates one and only one thing, and that thing actually does matter.

I would like to see the lawmakers on our side make a more serious effort to be adequately and properly informed on the subject matter they seek to regulate, but I don't want to see them just adopt language provided to them by interest groups, even if they are ideologically aligned with the left. I would rather they invest the effort to actually understand the practical impact of the language they support, as well as why it will have that impact in practicality. To rely on model legislation is to shirk responsibility to an extent, in my opinion, and exposes lawmakers to the risk of being misled as a product of ignorance.