Which we should turn over to people who study these issues, both with a working knowledge of gun violence, gun control, and gun minutia. Do you really expect the entire population to be consumate experts in every single piece of legislation that comes up? We can be more knowledgeable, sure, but we don’t need to be Phd level experts on every single thing that gets voted on. That is part of the reason why we have a division of labor in a deeply complicated society, because it is literally impossible to be an expert at everything.
Because often times, they are driven by ideology instead of facts. When politicians do their job properly, and manage to balance their political views with actual facts grounded in robust research, they do a much better job in creating legislation.
Again, do I have to be an expert on that to know that we need to DO something, and that gun control needs to be part of that? Or do I have to shut the fuck up if I don’t need the ins and outs of every little bit of information regarding guns? Because If I have to shut up, we no longer live in a democracy…
