> Take sensible gun reforms - something that poll after poll suggests there is broad support - is effectively blocked by the arms lobby. Is it blocked or has s

> Take sensible gun reforms - something that poll after poll suggests there is broad support - is effectively blocked by the arms lobby. Is it blocked or has society not needed to bring the outliers in line? (Democratic) government isn't there to lead. Government is there only to clean up after society recognizes that some are not falling into line. Society must lead. Saying "Yes, I support gun reforms" in a random poll isn't the same as action, of course. Also looking in from the outside, I don't see any real societal movement on this front. Funnily enough, in my country where we do find clear societal movement that pushed to move away from guns in our history, and a government that stepped in to clean up the outliers who still tried to wield guns afterwards, it was rooted in society wanting to protect their money from the poor and aboriginals. If it is such that American society is driven by money above people, it is curious that there isn't the same kind of interest in protecting that money from people. Perhaps money in the USA isn't as important as it appears to those of us only looking in?