For all the things that politics is interested in legislating, it seems like it’s much more about how to deal with symptoms than it is about causes.
Perhaps, that’s because it is really difficult to legislate things in the causal realm. But, endless treatments of symptoms without recognition of the disease, in the end, is somewhere between futile and hopeless.
At some point, all you end up doing is legislating your legislation, because you're not really working on the problem.
In 2004, a ten-year federal ban on assault weapons expired, and since then. mass shootings have tripled. Zusha Elinson, who is writing a history of the bestselling AR-15 military style weapon used in many mass shootings, notes that there were about 400,000 AR-15 style rifles in America before the assault weapons ban went into effect in 1994. Today, there are 20 million.
-- Heather Cox Richardson
We must find those among us who are willing to work for the service of the people, rather than for power. Because until that happens, nothing substantive will change.
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