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Bucky

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2. There's a neat scene in the first season of West Wing where Josh talks about gun regulation

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 06:54 PM

Jan 2013

The fictional assault weapons ban in that episode had been nickel and dimed through the legislative process so that one version of a semi-auto was permitted but another, with a slightly different handle, was banned. "It's the same gun!" Josh shouts at some implacable bureaucrat.

The specs that go into any gun legislation should deal with the effects of the weaponry being banned, not the design.

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