The car lobby isn't the only problem. One major point us that most people want single family homes, and generally with somewhat low density. The lower density i

The car lobby isn't the only problem. One major point us that most people want single family homes, and generally with somewhat low density. The lower density isn't well suited for public transit, especially when our public transit is broken in ways that money can't easily fix (restrictions on schedules, failing to stick to schedules, strikes, political routing, etc). "It's why even modest and sensible restrictions around car traffic are met with such violent opposition." It's often not opposition to the restrictions, but the low quality of the alternative being offered. "Restrictions on gun ownership and regulations around gun acquisition, however mild and sensible, are predictably seen as attacks on the aforementioned." It might not be as simple as you make it out to be. It's also possible that what one person thinks is sensible is not in fact sensible, but rather a political play. The Overton window is real. It's a well know political play to make an unwanted thing legally risky or burdensome to push people out of doing it. This is used by both sides on a variety of issues - guns, abortions, etc. That's why those sorts of topics have some many roundabout laws trying to make things deemed legal/protected too difficult for a normal person to want to pursue. I do agree on your last paragraph though.