Feinstein will introduce assault weapons ban in Senate

[krispos42]

32. Because like most media personalities, she's emotionally invested in her relevance.

Politicians are, by necessity, media personalities and, if not egomaniacs, not very far from that status.

She's been invested politically and emotionally on this issue for a couple of decades now. I would think she sees herself as a hapless underdog, working to make America safer despite the self-centered-ness and ignorance of gun owners.

She's a smart person. She knows what she's selling is feel-good placebo stuff, but I would guess she thinks that, as the underdog beset on all sides by powerful interest groups and cultish gun owners, it's the best she can do, and maybe it will lead to a cultural change, or at least open the door for more laws later on.


And now, the Senate, which through inaction is making the lives of all 310 million of us measurably worse every single year, is now going to be tied up on this feel-good knee-jerk "never again" stuff instead.

We're 80% below the do-nothing Congress of 1947 (or thereabouts) in terms of legislative productivity. the country is sinking into an economic morass of corporatism and greed and dysfunction. And now the post-9/11 "never again" frantic mindset is going to distract time and resources away from THEIR failures as elected lawmakers to pass some pompous, useless, piece of crap.


We're going to spend the same amount of political capital as we did to get the ACA through, take the same legislative losses in 2014, all to ban... what? Bayonet mounts?