Why we can't even think about restricting or even regulating guns:

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2. Before there's a flame war here ...

Certain deadly weapons were banned in the past, think Frank Nitti and The Untouchables.

But the gun lobby owns legislators, holding a metaphorical gun to their heads, if not a real one. Big BUCK$$$$$$$$$$$

The NRA was inanely corrupt and conned out of its undershorts by a Russian agent, who was convicted and somehow released or exchanged and last time I checked, was in the Duma, but no change.