A Texas bill, known as the FURRIES Act, would ban non-human behaviors in public schools, including the use of litter boxes and wearing animal accessories.
Rep. Stan Gerdes, the bill’s author, claimed schools were providing litter boxes for students acting as “furries.”
When pressed, Gerdes could not find an example. The bill was left pending in committee.
Dropping gun control, we would have had the political capital to enact universal health care, which would save several hundred thousand lives a year, and improve the quality of life of millions more.
Trying to force gun control got us Trump and UnitedHealth, without actually achieving gun control: no federal measures have passed since 1994, and 42 States have enacted pro-gun laws since 2004.
Was it worth it?
Pushing gun control with a sunset clause was pretty dumb, in hindsight.
Letting Russia take Crimea in 2014 was pretty dumb, in hindsight.
It’s easy to sit here today and judge the idiots of the past based on what we know now.
If I had a time machine and mind control ray would I go back and make them do it differently? Sure. Right after I told 2011 me to buy 1000 more bitcoin for $4 each and hold them until $50K.
Even then, they didn’t have the support to implement it without that sunset. They hoped that support would grow and it would be easy to renew.
It didn’t.
Rather than accept that gun control had become a losing issue, they doubled down, making it a central focus of every campaign across the country for the past 30+ years. They alienated more and more Democrats, year after year.
They claim they want “common sense gun control”, then vote against measures that would actually achieve it, such as public access to NICS. Why? Because they don’t want the public using NICS; they don’t want the public selling guns at all. They took that approach straight out of the “Abstinence Only” playbook.