Liberals Roar As Elizabeth Warren Vows To Mobilize Democrats To Defeat The NRA

[dairydog91]

122. It can simultaneously be a dig AND be honest.

If someone proposed to ban whiskey and vodka (But no other liquor) because of a rash of horrible car accidents caused by drunk teenagers, I'd say that would be foolish. Hard liquor has high alcohol content, so it gets you drunk fast. Let's say for the sake of argument that we have ironclad proof that banning hard liquor will reduce drunkenness and will therefore reduce drunk driving deaths. Either you consistently ALL hard liquor based on alcohol content, or you don't. Banning whiskey and vodka while leaving gin, rum, and tequila legal would not be a meaningful ban on alcohol content. At least banning all hard liquor would be consistent and coherent as a policy. To paraphrase an old boss of mine, "If you're doing something that doesn't work, you're just playing."

So yes, I don't support a ban on semiautomatic weapons. That doesn't mean that I'm insincere when I say that the Australian ban was coherent and technically meaningful, or when I say that the AWB was a cosmetic ban that did not address actual function.