Why not this for a state gun control law to slow gun trafficking?

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114. We don't really need more data.

The down side is already obvious. Do you think people in Kansas and Mississippi don't know what's going on in New York and L.A.? You can bet the NRA is making a killing informing them.

American are buying guns like they are going out of style. They have been for quite a while. At the same time the national crime rate is going down. There is simply no correlation between guns and crime. If you want to hurt somebody a gun certainly helps. But the causes of any human action for good or ill stretch far beyond any single factor. While we may be able to specify a particular cause among a plethora of causes, that specificity results in uncertainty about how much of an effect it actually has. We can measure ballistics and statistics all day long and write complicated legislation to control that single factor and while we do so people who want to do bad things will adjust the other circumstances around their motives before the ink on the legislation is dry.

When we support legislation that does nothing to help people but inconveniences or even endangers them our politicians get voted out of office. And it's an even greater tragedy when the legislation proposed by legislators who are supposed to defend the weak and poor falls most heavily on their shoulders without helping them one whit. That's how Democrats are so easily labeled by Republicans as arrogant elitist assholes. And people on both sides of the debate make money doing it.

Guns have been turned into a fetish object by the ideology industry the leaders of which are invariably card carrying members of the 1%. When we buy their product, we lose.