District of Columbia

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41. The problems you may be encountering:

1). Those wanting gun-control/prohibition have always thought in terms of national legislation when state action is not precluded or in fact may be required. Hence, a whole avenue of change possibility is for the most part is given short shrift.

2). The "dialog" of gun controllers is essentially in national, culture war terms which causes citizens to not only recoil from the rhetoric, but to seek the election of those who will weld into place state pro-gun policies and politicians and politicians at the national level to utterly shit-can any control proposal.

3). I favor UCBs. But in the current atmosphere, who or what has the credibility to propose and enact such? (I was once asked by a controller why I didn't work for such. I answered that it was peculiar to ask your nominal "enemy" to do your own work, then added: What good would it do when in the midst of my toils to have some anti crawling up my back advocating bans for Gunhumpers and Ammosexuals?)