(05-02-2021 10:22 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  Look... your Constitutional Law chops outweigh everybody else's on this forum. So I definitely listen to your opinions on this matter and try to learn from it.
I also recognize the incredible potential for bias in your opinions given previous statements (ones that I consider frankly outlandish) that you have made on this forum ("Kamala is the most reprehensible person on the face of the planet, etc.")

Do you really, seriously, not believe that Kamala is a thoroughly reprehensible person?

As far as the differences between Tanq and myself on this issue, I'm of the belief that there is going to be continuous pressure to do something, even if it is wrong, about this issue until something reduces the number of gun deaths. So why not do the one thing that has actually ever worked first?

Gun bans have never had a significant impact anywhere. Not UK and not Australia, by the way. Yes, they both have strict, some would argue draconian, gun laws, and yes, they both have low rates of gun violence. But they both had the low rates of gun violence BEFORE they had the gun laws. Australia's rates have continued to decline in the 20+ years since they passed their gun law--at exactly the same rate as they were declining before they passed that law--and UK's rates have actually increased slightly in the almost 100 years since they passed their first gun law.