Brent Spiner gets attacked by gun nuts for daring to comment on guns.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

31. First, it's important to have a proper context; to separate sensationalism from fact.

What the pro-control crowd espouses is NEVER based on facts. For example, why all of the mania about banning semi-automatic rifles when the number of deaths annually from rifles, period -- of which semi-automatic rifles are only a subset -- is less than 400 of the 30,000 gun deaths annually?

Then I have other questions like -- Is gun violence rising or decreasing? Do nations with stricter gun laws have higher or lower rates of violent crime? What if it's a cultural issue? Why focus on gun control to deal with the half of all gun deaths that are suicides if those advocating gun control are leaving the mental illness untreated? If the mental illness is addressed doesn't that mean the gun ceases to be an issue? What exactly is the definition of "reasonable" and "sensible" WRT gun control and at what point will the anti-2A crowd say, "Here and no further.".