>>>Maye that shows that moving away from the current gun culture (if thats what people want to do) may require a different method to legislation.
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>>>A comparison for me would be DUI. Years ago it was regarded as relatively harmless but now its largely socially unacceptable. Maybe the ownership of rapid fire weapons with large magazine capacities would need to be regarded the same way.
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>>And then it's not just the laws, it's the enforcement as well. About four years ago they finally incarcerated a guy when he hit the toll booth on the Chesapeake bay bridge. That was his 22nd DUI... and he we free to do it, because he did the previous 21 all over the seven cities, and was caught by a different police each time. They just never thought to merge their databases.
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>I wish it had happened sooner. Despite my much discussed history with alcohol I do not drive drunk and support all efforts to keep drunks off the road.
This guy was certainly going in off-road direction, but took a rather convoluted path to achieve that goal. Had he missed the toll booth and managed to drive through the fence, he'd be falling a lot.