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IMO, gun policy is a fairly complicated and nuanced area - I am still not 100% sure how I feel about a lot of things. Thanks for taking the time to write up a

• bmelton 14y ago
  I completely agree, and there are numbers that have been manipulated so much and so frequently by politicians that it is genuinely hard to get very relevant data to support anything either way in a concrete fashion. I try to keep my arguments based on what I know has been proven thus far and the things that I know to be true, but the media isn't really helping in any way in that regard. I feel that irresponsible reporting on both sides is doing everybody in this nation a disservice. Politicians that are trying to legislate that which they do not understand is equally laughable. Banning barrel shrouds, for example, that pretty much every rifle has had since 1880, or banning adjustable stocks that allow for my wife and I to share the same gun and just adjust it to our reach. That said, we have problems, and the solutions are not necessarily apparent. So while I applaud our nation for wanting to "do something", I worry that the something we're aiming to do is just going to make guns more available to criminals than lawful citizens, and ultimately, a lot of it is gray area.