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The writing is convoluted (no doubt on purpose-it is Politico), but if I am deciphering it correctly, the result is that people think more attention to mental health and a police presence at schools would be MORE EFFECTIVE than banning assault and semi-automatic weapons. That is a good thing - most people get it.

Also, according to Pew, less people support more gun control NOW than BEFORE Obama took office. That is also a good thing.

America is in favor of gun control over the 2nd Amendment. Americans have always been in favor of gun control. "Mattresses were brought up from the cellars and pitched all over the corridors: meals consisted of sandwiches and Victory Coﬀee wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen. Each time that Winston broke oﬀ for one of his spells of sleep he tried to leave his desk clear of work, and each time that he crawled back sticky-eyed and aching, it was to ﬁnd that another shower of paper cylinders had covered the desk like a snowdrift, half burying the speakwrite and overﬂowing on to the ﬂoor, so that the ﬁrst job was always to stack them into a neat enough pile to give him room to work. What was worst of all was that the work was by no means purely mechanical. Often it was enough merely to substitute one name for another, but any detailed report of events demanded care and imagination. Even the geographical knowledge that one needed in transferring the war from one part of the world to another was considerable. By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes. It was like struggling with some crushing physical task,something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish. In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie. He was as anxious as anyone else in the Department that the forgery should be perfect." `Nineteen Eightyfour' The MSM `Winston Smiths' have been busy boys and girls.