Perhaps I read too much into your earlier post that I replied to, having had arguments with others here all night, that seem to revolve around 'This does that", and replying "No, it doesn't", and being chided for being too technical. That was the gist of my reply to you, that nothing gets done without the proper technical/use of language that everybody understands. Getting everyone on the same page is 9/10 of the battle, but some have to be drug, kicking and screaming to the book to see the ink.
Now that being said, I never mentioned converters. The only conservative way to get better economy today, without a major breakthrough on IC engines, is to lighten the vehicle, which makes it smaller, use more plastic/aluminum instead of steel, reducing the passenger compartment/storage areas. Using higher gears, which means a higher HP engine is another, but there are tradeoffs there.
The house problem was fashioned to show what would happen if you didn't listen to technical advice from the architect. They did, as the architect most likely wouldn't have approved the blueprints anyway. The idea was, and is, that if you go and do something without a clear plan, or proper knowledge of the job to be done, you will most likely fail. A good technical advisor is valuable in cases like this. Like the carpenter says, "Measure twice, cut once." My worry is that some half cooked gun bill will pass due to the heat of the moment, that won't stop any further shootings, has nothing to do with the current shooting, and have to be revisited over and over to get all the kinks out. Some people don't see a problem with this, but it costs money, political, legal, etc. Because to fix a law, a lot of times someone has to take someone else to court, go through the legal system, then the courts have to send it up the chain to SCOTUS, or lawmakers have to have another go at it. Time and money wasted, if it had been done right in the first place.
As far as gun owners, which I am one, again, passing a law just to pass one, making my hobby harder to follow, because a handful of guys misuse a firearm (which a lot of them SHOULD have been barred from owning anyway, but that is another long post). It's not my fault someone else misused a firearm, any more that me being responsible for a drunk driver killing someone because I own a car and have alcohol in the house. I am responsible with my life. Let's go after and punish those who are not. There were enough instances with the last shooting to probably imprison or admit him, denying him legal purchase of a gun. The system is there, let's fix that first.
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