>>The above notwithstanding, the next step we choose to take will always be the most important step we'll ever take in our lifetimes- but what we just chose to do will affect us forever.
>>Magical paradox, isn't it?
What the US decides won't affect me more than maybe a month per year.... which leaves more time to grapple with the unacceptable suicide rate for young men in NZ.
Meanwhile, did you know that Trump advocated an assault rifle ban back in 2000?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1