CONGRESS and the American people have an agreement: Congress can create laws, but they should be necessary and effective. In return, once a law is passed, the people (or most of them, anyway) will obey it. When that agreement breaks down, so does the rule of law. Ineffective laws, or laws that encroach too much on the private domain, breed cynicism, contempt, and non-compliance.
One piece of legislation that will be both ineffective and intrusive is the so-called “assault-weapon ban” approved by Congress last month as part of the
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