Gun Control & RKBA

I want to see these problems fixed, but it's pretty much impossible with Republicans running things.

Many gun-control proposals, IMO, would require a very high expenditure of political capital, would have a long-term and fairly steep backlash affect FOR the Republicans, and would have no visible impact short term and very little (probably statistically insignificant) long term.

And it doesn't fix the situation that can lead to murder, but it might make murder a little less likely. For example, sometimes domestic abuse escalates to murder. If we assume that a gun-control policy reduced the odds of the abused being killed by his or her abuse, it doesn't change the fact that the abuse is still happening. Beatings and denigration and burning and cutting... those things are still happening, scarring the victim and anybody around him or her.

Whereas working to crack down on domestic abuser (through various methods) will not only make murder of the abused less likely, but also reduce the number of abusers, the number of abused, and the number of people affected on the periphery of the abusive situation.

This effect will not only be much more net positive for society, but because the kind of people that care about domestic abuse are in power, they would do other things that broadly benefit society.

That's my opinion.

We don't have a prayer of getting a lot of things that are broadly beneficial to our society done if we're not in charge.