It’s exactly a band aid and they know it is, but it is the only giant crutch they have some assemblence of a political angle that works for them. Again, they can be overhauled and compromised but until this country stops cutting programs say for the mentally ill, aka shutting down long term mental institutes and pumping money into welfare as hard as we go, they are stuck with this disillusion. People will always find a way to be evil, lets not forget Timothy McVeigh took down 1/3 of a about a 10 story federal building with nothing more really than a rental truck and fertalizer, I know that is simplified down, but not by much. So we strip away firearms from law abiding citizens.....How about we worry about stripping them from felons and illegal arms dealers. Ill say it again and again, you will never conquer evil or stupidity with legislature.