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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
In my experience most of the vocal anti gun control people don't think about it in terms of "we should have things in place that make it slightly harder to get"

They immediately go on about how Clinton/Obama/Biden/Pelosi/*insert boogeyman here* are coming for their guns snd will completely ban them. Politicians enjoy using rage porn to get votes and keep their base angry and distracted so they lean into that
gpt
And the anti-firearms folk aren't proposing reasonable measures, unfortunately. 

For example the new law in Oregon. So poorly drafted that it gives police carte blanche to deny citizens their second amendment rights without due process or objective measures.

In all honesty, there is a lot of knee-jerk response, and very little data to support it. 

If we had studied, reasonable measures being proposed, that actually could foment positive change to fix the issue, yeah, there would still be a lot of the "but mah GuNZ!" folk out there, but there would be a lot more support from reasonable firearms owners.