Today's politics and laws are about emotion. A group has an emotional crisis so a law must be written to address it. Most bad things in life are already illegal

Today's politics and laws are about emotion. A group has an emotional crisis so a law must be written to address it. Most bad things in life are already illegal, but there seems to be the desire to add more laws to address that specific thing that bothers that specific group. Even though it is already covered by a number of other laws. Politicians take advantage of this with the typical "we must do something!" or "we must do this for the 'whatever'" (typically children) rhetoric that addresses the emotion but tosses out all logic. It's similar to the perpetual war concept by always pointing over the border at "the enemy". The problem is that your average person doesn't know enough of what's going on in the world and probably cannot do so anyway, that's the point of a representative government. That's another thing that politician's take advantage of, a person's willingness to believe whatever an "expert" states. Of course it's illegal to carry a firearm onto a plane, except for certain situations (police and so forth), but when someone of authority says that laws that prevent plastic guns from going on planes are expiring the average people assume the politician means that it will suddenly be legal to do so. That's not necessarily true, there are several other laws to prevent such a thing from happening. But the authority figure in his rhetoric chooses not to mention that. As for almost all gun ban laws in place or have ever been proposed, if you take a hard look, do nothing in terms of preventing any other laws from being broken. Most mass shootings happen in areas where it is known the likelihood of another gun being on the premises is low because the law makes it a "gun-free zone". Gun ban laws tend to lean towards banning guns based on cosmetic features, not the actual functionality of the weapons involved.