Congress Ignores Jobs, Despite Americans Ranking Issue Their Top Priority

Creating significant and massive infrastructure projects that require labor is what ONLY the government can do.  

Whether it's repairing our crumbling infrastructure (roads, highways, bridges, railways, etc.) or setting up conditions that encourage domestic hiring (ending tax breaks for outsourcing, incentives and tax breaks for domestic hiring, contracts for good and services used by the government, etc.), members of Congress can end the crisis now, but they won't.  It's not in their own personal self-interest to do it.  They make much more money operating against the best interests of the American people.
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Assault Weapons Ban Likely To Die So That Broader Gun Policy Legislation Can Live

It's unlikely that the kind of people who commit the crimes that this legislation is directed at would 1) have a 3d printer in their living rooms, and 2) be able to form the intent and skill and take the time to fabricate one.  

It's impressive how outlawing something prevents it.  For instance, even though there are some who would break the law, others wouldn't, for many reasons, and those others mean fewer opportunities for someone with the desire and intent (but lacking skills to make one) getting their hands on it.  The Sandy Hook shooter, perhaps.
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Assault Weapons Ban Likely To Die So That Broader Gun Policy Legislation Can Live

Except a background check wouldn't have prevented Sandy Hook, or other high capacity gun crimes that this legislation is supposed to be responding to.  The guns used in those crimes were all purchased legally through gun shops that performed background checks.
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Assault Weapons Ban Likely To Die So That Broader Gun Policy Legislation Can Live

Background checks wouldn't have stopped Sandy Hook, or Virginia Tech, etc.  These are the shootings that the people are reacting to and want action on, and these would only have been prevented with restrictions on large magazine, adding classes of people who can't legally possess guns and violating HIPAA laws.
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Assault Weapons Ban Likely To Die So That Broader Gun Policy Legislation Can Live

The problem with "mental health issues" precluding someone from obtaining guns is HIPAA, which must be left intact, because the actual numbers of people with mental health problems who are violent (and who gun control laws would are needed for) is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the total number.  
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