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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: 35 years of gun sales, showing gun control's unintended consequences [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,591 posts)14. re: "Can something be made more illegal?"
Most of this list is probably sourced from folks who don't know existing laws.
Some think that setting the thermostat to 90 will get the house to 70 faster than setting it to 70 or 71.
I know it's not the best analogy but it seems easier, I guess, to simply pile on more restrictions until there is some measure of observable change in the desired direction. It does remind me a bit of a few places I've worked where more meetings are piled on to focus on the schedule that's running behind. This does in part take time away from work on the desired progress.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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35 years of gun sales, showing gun control's unintended consequences [View all]
krispos42
Jan 2022
OP
Had Democrats not pushed for gun control so strongly over the last few decades,
Dial H For Hero
Jan 2022
#2
The antigun activists on this site haven't the faintest interest in debating facts.
Dial H For Hero
Jan 2022
#9