I wonder what bright spark came up with this idea in the first place. Anyone paying attention to reality in America, and the rate of mass shootings, would have realized that as soon as they came up with the idea it was already going to go over badly, much less after they filmed and released it. So clueless.
I suspect it’s just what I’d like to call a “squirrel argument.” They don’t care about the issue, except how it can work in the moment as a distraction. (“Guns aren’t the problem because - look over there, squirrel!”) The alternative is this becomes an excuse to propose a policy that not only would fail to help the problem but would actually make the problem worse, because they lack a sense of irony and can only think in punitive policy terms.
