A Princeton study in 2014 found that public opinion in the U.S. has virtually no influence on national policy decisions. https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellec

A Princeton study in 2014 found that public opinion in the U.S. has virtually no influence on national policy decisions. https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/study-the-u-s-has-likely-been-an-oligarchy-for-decades-VcBZj8xeaUK9i9Qs_nGtjw/ https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/study-the... Subsequent studies have found that it's not as bad as all that. But even they found that the public often doesn't get what it wants. Therefore we can't conclude there's no public consensus for a ban just because the government hasn't done it already.