While the bump-stock ban bugs me in principle, I'm not worried just yet that it is camel nose under the tent. It's a throw-away, for practical purposes, and avoids a fight over that detail.
I am sure, if the fight was over semi-autos, the fight would be real, and the scope of civil disobedience (not violence, just refusal to abide by the law) would be near total.
I think bump stocks are not good for anything. Just a novelty, a danger. Like brass knucks or throwing stars. No good use for them.
I hope you’re right.
My concern is that people who are evil, along with people who are stupid and people who are well-meaning but don’t see the big picture, pass bad laws.
The way it seems to happen is that there is a case where someone has done something that everybody thinks is horrible, but there is some sort of loophole or something that allowed it, so there is a rush to “do something about this” and they pass a law that criminalizes something related to that person’s action without stopping to consider the broader consequences.
Example: A man molests and murders a child. Everyone agrees this is horrible. But in the emotional rush to do something, they make some non-criminal aspect of what he did illegal and that new law has cascading effects on all of us. What if he contacted the kid on FR, so they try to shut down FR? Or something similar.
Perhaps, but the Left never tosses in a "throw-away" on anything. Can you imagine the Democrats in Congress or a Democrat President tossing Conservatives a "throw-away" on the issue of Abortion?
Never, not in a million years.
"And do not give the devil a foothold.
Ephesians 4:27