2018 United Airlines Dog Death Controversy - 17 people die in a high school and a month later there's a nationwide protest to get the attention of lawmakers. One dog dies on an airplane and there's a bill in the Senate rectifying it within 48 hours.

It's almost as if the dog bill hurts no one, isn't opposed by half the country, and would actually do the thing it's meant to do

It's almost as if keeping pets out of overhead compartments on airplanes is a whole lot easier to do than attempting to work around an entire Constitutional amendment – which is also part of the Bill of Rights – to ban a weapon from the entire country.