Drugs are hard to control because they're manufactured by criminals. But guns are manufactured by US companies traded on the NYSE. They start out legal! These are legitimate businesses that can be subjected to reasonable legislation to prevent trafficking. Idiotic analogy.
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It's not a guardrail, it's a cage, for 25 years it has acted as a cage. It won't stop acting like a cage because they rename it a guardrail.
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The ranking member again brings up Mexico as an example of gun control not working. Mexico's gun problem is trafficking from the US. It turns out, your neighbors bad policy affects you, both across international borders and across state borders. That's what trafficking is.
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Just look at the ATF trace data from Mexico, these guns are coming from *here* 70% are sourced to US manufacturers. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/report/firearms-trace-data-mexico-cy-11-16pdf/download …
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Enough of this. It's very upsetting to see legitimate academics have to share a table with a hack like Lott. The committee did a poor job, and the other panelists a reasonable job of countering the disinfo, but he still provides cover for the "do nothing" "no problem" liars.
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