What makes you qualified to have an opinion about gun control? A) Knowing the difference between a magazine and a clip, and bump stocks versus full automatic weapons. B) Ability to assemble and disassemble handguns and rifles. C) If I might get shot, I get to have an opinion.
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I don't think only experts should talk about atmospheric CO2 - I fully expect everyone to have (indirect) preferences about it. And I agree that we need to defer to experts when transforming those preferences into specific policy.
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I didn't know what a bump stock was. I just looked it up. It took 30 seconds and now I am no longer ignorant. It is legitimately something that a purported expert on gun issues ought to already know about.
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This is exactly where we can say that the public gets to express their preference for banning fully automatic weapons, and in response knowledgeable regulators *should* respond by banning bump-stocks as functionally equivalent.
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Regulators can't, because "machine gun" is defined by statute and there's no "functional equivalence" test. Technically, a shoestring enables bump fire - it's a technique, not a device.
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I'm in full agreement with this sentiment, but if you agree that expertise in gun mechanics is woefully insufficient for this discussion, then "an expert with actually relevant expertise" wasn't one of the three options.
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(To which you may say, OK, so let's pick better options. To which I'll agree, but also, for the purpose of "who is actually discussing this on the internet, those options are kind of most of what we see...)
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I think it's simpler. One part of the discussion is about re-banning things we agreed to ban in the past, in slightly different guises. Another is fixing a background check system to be universal, which we've known was needed for decades. These simply don't require expertise.
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