Its time for Democrats to drop the gun control platform

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121. You can start here

This first one is not very long, so I won't quote from it.

5 Indefensible Tweets From The NRA Since The Oregon Gun Massacre
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/07/3709919/tweets-nra-oregon-shooting/

Gun Control and the Old West
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~rcollins/scholarship/guns.html
Pioneer publications show Old West leaders repeatedly arguing in favor of gun control. City leaders in the old cattle towns knew from experience what some Americans today don't want to believe: a town which allows easy access to guns invites trouble.
What these cow town leaders saw intimately in their day-to-day association with guns is that more guns in more places caused not greater safety, but greater death in an already dangerous wilderness. By the 1880s many in the west were fed up with gun violence. Gun control, they contended, was absolutely essential, and the remedy advocated usually was usually no less than a total ban on pistol-packing.
The editor of the Black Hills Daily Times of Dakota Territory in 1884, called the idea of carrying firearms into the city a “dangerous practice,” not only to others, but to the packer himself. He emphasized his point with the headline, "Perforated by His Own Pistol."
The editor of the Montana’s Yellowstone Journal acknowledged four years earlier that Americans have "the right to bear arms," but he contended that guns have to be regulated. As for cowboys carrying pistols, a dispatch from Laramie’s Northwest Stock Journal in 1884, reported, "We see many cowboys fitting up for the spring and summer work. They all seem to think it absolutely necessary to have a revolver. Of all foolish notions this is the most absurd."

And then there is this:

Guns in the wild west: regulated, with no fears about ripping the Constitution
http://fabiusmaximus.com/2013/01/24/guns-wild-west-48208/
Summary: An oddity of the New America is how we stumble when dealing with problems solved not just by our peers in other developed nations, but in our past. Gun control is but one example. Other nations, our peers in the developed world, have accomplished what we’re told is impossible for Americans: reducing gun ownership. In our past we were able to regulate guns without cries that we shredded the Constitution (the subject of today’s post). In brief, we see ignorance and amnesia — what conservative leaders consider ideal qualities for citizens.

My opinion are supported, btw.

Hard to trace? What does that have to do with keeping guns out of criminal hands? Could you explain how tracing a gun will help?

Simple, being able to trace a firearm back to its last know legal owner of record, helps find who the so-called "good guy" is that is selling to the bad guys. You know the straw purchasers?
Oh, you think straw buyers/sellers are bad guys? They think they are good guys, the 2nd Amendment being sacrosanct and absolute and all that.