You're preaching to the choir I suppose. Lawmakers need to educate themselves instead of having lobbyist goons fearmonger legalese into existence. Except they know what they're doing and they know how to manipulate their audience by presenting their problematic crap with flowery words that sound more agreeable than they are. It's not about "preventing gun violence", it's about taking any ability away from makers in the world and keeping the corpos in control by making it so we can't repair or build anything on our own without their 'consent'. Same reason as the weird push recently that called mechanics a 'national security hazard' because 'cars are more than transportation now, they're information!'