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And this is truly the enemy - ignorance and emotion - rule the day.
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For the public maybe, but for those legislators it is neither. The name of the game is scapegoating. That is a cool, calculated political ploy.
I would say virtually all politicians in support of bans and controls already know they do nothing to lower crime, just like all those police chiefs know it. They don't want to tell the truth and say we need harsher prison sentences, and the national politicians with Hollywood money sure don't want to point to the pornographic level of violence in films.
These politicians are putting their finger to the wind and solving the problem like politicians usually do, by targeting the politically weakest sector to blame and then taking credit. Walking out of a hearing with testimony by a couple of "gun nuts" (read: anyone who has some sober knowledge) is a nice bit of drama to stigmatize gun owners and abet the elected officials' political posturing.