You're right... Let's not mix your type of political expediency with laws like this:In the middle of the night (because it's expedient!), CT passed a law that prohibits the purchase of magazines that hold greater than 10 bullets and banned "assault" weapons in the wake of the Newtown shooting. Newtown was a sad event, but the knee jerk that followed was "political expediency" in action. Democrats who wanted stronger gun control expediently preyed on public feeling over the event and passed some really stupid laws. Political expediency somehow usurped people's 2nd amendment rights! Because this "badly needed" law's in place, we won't have any new school shootings in CT. After all, no one can shoot up another school now that clips can only hold 9 bullets and the guns require you to manually pull the trigger 9 times to empty the clip. And of course, criminals will abide the law and not buy those magazines and weapons in another state nearby that allows them. And the kids that are bul
Lots of really dumb laws are born out of political expediency. Sadly, I think that's what people crave these days, are knee jerk reactions. We need to stop doing that and make laws that make sense long term.
