When we all learned about the horror of the massacre in Las Vegas, it took a few moments to process the information. Dozens dead. Hundreds wounded. It was an absolute nightmare.

As information trickled in, we learned that the killer used an AR-15 outfitted with a bump stock, a piece of kit most folks had never even heard of prior to the events in Las Vegas. In an instant, it was obvious that the innocuous device that had been around for years, which had never been used before in such an incident, was in the crosshairs of anti-gun politicians and the media.

Meanwhile, media outlets like to think that banning the blasted things is “sensible.”

It’s a shame that lawmakers have failed to point out that bump fire can happen without a bump stock. By banning the stock, you literally accomplish nothing except make it so people can’t buy one particular means of bump firing. If you want to ban all means of bump firing, you’ll also need to ban belt loops and rubber bands.

There’s nothing sensible about banning a device that’s little more than a piece of plastic that is used by thousands of people for nothing but entertainment simply because one individual misused it. Especially when it’s far from the only way to create that particular effect with an AR-15.

The fact is, there’s nothing we can do that will stop the next person who wants to pull off a Las Vegas-style attack, especially if we want to honor the Second Amendment to any degree. Banning bump stocks won’t, and neither will anything else that’s been proposed by various states.

That makes such laws senseless. What is the good of a law if it accomplishes nothing?