All hope is lost. DU gun debate shows that America isn't ready for real reform.

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101. Reasonable people can differ on what effective gun control means.

For you it means certain things. That doesn't mean what you think is the answer, is the only answer, and anyone who has different ideas is wrong.

Maybe that's where your discouragement is coming from.

Some thoughts I've read, such as confiscating all guns in the U.S., just aren't practical. That is not gonna happen. And I don't think that you would want Nazis breaking down your door and searching through your underwear drawers and digging up your back yard looking for guns that aren't there.

But most people in DU seem to agree on some basics....like no sales of assault weapons (however you define that), full background checks even at gun shows, a waiting period between application and picking up the weapon.

And some posters don't want to look at anything else that might contribute to this phenomena of mass killings that started a couple of decades ago. Something changed a couple of decades ago. What was it? If a DUer doesn't want to discuss anything BUT gun control, then I wonder if the goal is to save lives, or if the goal is simply to get rid of guns.