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Yet legislators are in the grasp of associations, who want no such legislation to occur and either block it or never allow it to be proposed. They are in the clutches of corporations & oligarchs.

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That sounds like the problem to solve then. Otherwise you're just applying a band-aid to an aortic rupture.

Hence my comment about the US being what it likes to call a "failed state," which was promptly and thoroughly down-voted. :-)

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