[CRedskinsRule]

Without diving into the whole mess, I hate the argument "if it even saved 1 ... " It's a terrible and imo evil way of defining solution sets.

It's terrible because a multitude of bad laws have been and will forever be written using the if it even saved 1 train of thought. How about we write a law that every car must stop for any pedestrian crossing the road. How many lives would be saved, certainly at least one somewhere, but it's a terrible law because no appropriately cautious drivers would ever get where they were going, so most likely it would lead to super cautious drivers who gave every pedestrian a 5 foot berth and crazy whacked out drivers who ignore the law and put more people at risk.

It's evil because many (I would say most, but not all) the people who use that line of argument have a hidden agenda that they hide by making ridiculous heroisms like "if it saves 1 life I would give up my life savings for ever", "if it saves 1 child, it will be worth giving our government all their private information", ... the list goes on and on, and those who would seek to usurp the freedoms enshrined in the declaration of independence and the Constitution will forever beat the "if it saves one life " drum.

That's my opinion at least.