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In reply to the discussion: Do not think about arguing [View all]Bucky
(53,986 posts)The specs are important for lawmakers to know about. When you create operational limits, the regulated industry is going to push those limits. I get that. In this website you're going to find a large number of us are inclined to dig into the nuance of many policy statements. But that is not what this conversation is about.
As I leave auto regulation to auto experts and health regulation to medical experts, I leave the nuts and bolts of manufacturing regulations on guns to weapons experts. It's enough for us to say, "We need all Americans covered by health insurance" and can leave it to the health management pros to make the details of the system. Or for us to say "We need fewer miners to get crushed by cave-ins" and let professional engineers define the specs.
What this discussion is about is us, as a people, saying "Do you see that movie theater covered in dead bodies? Do you see that night club, that office park, that college campus, that high school, that elementary school with all the dozens of dead people scattered about in the puddles of blood? We demand that any weapon that can do THAT needs to go away."
We won't ever stop shooting incidents. The only goal of this discussion is to make them less bloody. Other countries have done this and have benefited from the results. They still have tragedies; they just have less.