O’Brien’s emotional outburst revealed something: her line of reasoning only makes sense if she wants a full ban. Confiscation, “buy back”, with severe penalties for non-compliance. Like Australia did.
Even Obama doesn’t go that far. He knows that would lead to an open revolt; he just wants to use this as an opportunity to make incremental “progress”, with hopes that in 20 years, semiautomatic rifles will be as rare then as automatics are now.
I prefer O’Brien’s timeline. I’m still young enough to participate in the fight if we decide to have it now. In twenty years, probably not so much.
Only to point this out....but she sits in a studio...that you have to show some sort of ID to get past an armed guard at the front. I don’t think there’s a single network studio that doesn’t operate like this presently. She might grin at the camera and say she’s ‘clean’, but she’s got armed protection.