Colorado gun bills: Senate gives nod to magazine ammo limit after six hour debate

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33. It's not just "feel good"

Part of the reason gun control measures face such an uphill climb is because gun advocates keep brainwashing everyone into believing that, despite the contradicting example of every other developed nation on the planet, the US is unique and no regulation can ever have the slightest impact here, so we'd better not even think about trying to do anything to reduce the 30,000 gun deaths each year or we'll be politically decimated. True, it's unlikely that this single piece of legislation will dramatically reduce gun deaths all by itself, although if it saves even one life, that's good enough for me. In the bigger picture, though, what it will accomplish is to demonstrate that the 230 million people in this country who are not gun owners can, in fact, stand up to the 70 million people who are and demand a safer country. Any law that moves us in the direction of that happy outcome serves a good purpose in my opinion.