If the Democrats pass and Obama signs a new AWB would you still support Dems?

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195. One thing that you and I are right about...

...is consistency. Making laws that demand a background check to buy a new gun while allowing the sale of a 1 year old gun between private individuals doesn't strike me as consistent. I also think that laws involving criminal negligence in connection with safe storage need some work.

A lot of work needs to be done and I think we could all do with considerably less posturing for the media. I personally think nothing that came from the NRA after the Sandy Hook Shooting was constructive and it would have been better to hold no press conferences.

Murder in this country IS NOT a mental health issue. A fair percentage of shootings where many random and uninvolved people are targeted do involve mental health issues. It's time to stop ignoring these killings where 3 to 30 people are shot because mental health options are so limited. A great percentage of shootings are criminal on criminal acts with the occasional bystanders injured and/or killed. Lots of this is motivated by drugs. It's time to end the war on drugs. We don't need teenagers selling pot shot on corners and we don't need federal agents shot by drug lords in Columbia.

My background is in developing statements there are clear, concise and complete which is something that the current collection of mismatched gun laws numbering over 20,000 severely lack. If one built a frame house in the same manner we've pasted together these laws, the result would be better characterized as a few billion pieces of sawdust holding hands than a house.

This I why I caution against phrasing any effort as undermining rights which are so fundamental both politically and culturally. An informed approach with clear goal that acknowledges rights and lacks the capricious and arbitrary nature of some recent legislation has a chance at some actual progress.