Jon Stewart's plea for gun control
Problem is, Cosmic, what some of these anti-gun people don't realize is that responsible gun owners might get unfairly targeted by stiffer regulations feel they currently have the momentum to push in lieu of this recent school shooting? It's a sign of the extreme polarization that important political/social issues can't be discussed nationwide because of suspecting alterior motives in everything coming from the other side---MSM outlets, most Americans' disgust with insincere political BS from both parties. Cosmic, we've become so cynical I think some now view "reasonable" and "fair" on gun control, abortion, combating hate speech vs. 1st Amendment limitations, as vague, obscure terms. You and I might agree on greater regulations maybe comparable to Canada's, which emphasizes greatly on gun registration, but unlike most EU countries, doesn't forbid owning as many guns as you'd like. I think you'd agree we don't need to emulate some of UK's draconian gun laws--where MI5, police authorities can search your home without a warrant or probable cause in some cases, if your suspected of having a blunted knife, or that in UK and France, authorities can detain suspects or temporarily deny them habeas corpus for up to 10 days.
Gun-control advocates, IMHO, make themselves part of the problem sometimes not because of their arguments, but that some of their solutions come off sounding bit too drastic, self-righteous in demonizing, oversimplying the issues surrounding the problem like Micheal Moore's recently said all guns, regardless of caliber, type, should be registered in a federal/state database just like cars and pet collars. That's another typical over-exagerration from Moore's that even his supporters admit, hurt him and give his enemies ample ammunition to discredit him and his beliefs---even though Moore is a NRA member.
Statements like that from Moore, other gun-control types play right into NRA's strategy of painting them being "more anti-gun, than pro-gun control" and I hope we can understand huge differences existing between the two if we ever want to have a honest, reasonable discussion in this country.