Having watched the gun control debate since I can remember it (1968 or so...) and being old enough to have had my first .22 bought by my father from Sears BY MAIL ORDER, I have come to the conclusion that pro-gunners don't get it. They consistently don't understand that this is a street fight. You don't fight a street fight by Roberts Rules of Order. You pick up a garbage can and bash it over your opponent's head. You break off a bottle and grind it into their face. You "continue to kick and stomp until victim is subdued."
What the pro-gunners don't get is that the opposition uses EMOTION and they're using FACTS. Emotion and facts are completely dissimilar and they're like ships passing in the night. Emotion will almost always win with the uninformed. Pro-gunners should be SCARING THE S*** out of people, not citing statistics. Scaring the s*** out of a housewife who is already afraid of crime will be much more effective than telling her about the number of defensive uses of firearms that resulted in no crime being committed in 1999. Besides, pro-gunners can always fall back on facts, the anti-gunners don't have any facts, at least no facts that aren't completely fabricated.
Wake up and smell the coffee, folks. This is a street fight. Start fighting like your enemy does.
Well stated !