"Assault weapons bans do not work"

[krispos42]

10. If it doesn't work, then why do it?

Look, people don't like have their choices removed. People especially don't like having their choices removed because of hysteria and desperate politicians seeking to placate the hysteria with placebo national law.

So if it does nothing, is solely a placebo, and is being trumpeted by politicians eager to not address real solutions to violence like, say, legalizing drugs or USP mental and physical health insurance... then we actually lose.

And here's the harm, if you will...

The Democrats will blow their legislative wad on ornamental gun-control legislation, which will neatly divert attention from the aforementioned drug legalization, or fighting poverty, or making the economy fairer, or making schools better.

It also makes people that own guns and want to continue to do so politically active.

People that don't own guns have to do literally NOTHING to continue to do so. Just remain inert, and your right to own a gun will dissolve into nothing, and that person won't really care because they don't and won't own a gun. That person will not become politically active.

It's like straight people on gay marriage... for a very long time no straight person didn't give a fuck about gays marrying because they had no dog in the fight... "I can still marry!"


But gun owners will. And guess which side they will join?