A message to those who wish to ban or restrict guns: Give up.

[Jim Lane]

281. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

BTW, just in case any of you are so fixated on your beloved guns that your fixation overwhelms everything else, "shots" here is used in the hockey sense, not in the sense of firing a gun. (The subject line is a quotation from Wayne Gretzky.)

If supporters of gun control reject Johnny's advice and keep advocating for their position, will their success come in the short term, the middle term, the long term, or never? No one can say with certainty. What we can say with certainty (or very close to it) is that, if they follow Johnny's advice, they are doomed to failure.

Of course, most supporters of gun control are not anti-gun nuts in the sense of being fixated on their cause. Rather, most of us support gun control as one among several ideas that would make society better. Alas, no one has unlimited time, energy, or money. In setting priorities among one's goals, it's reasonable to consider, as one factor, the prospects for success.

But if anyone decides to "give up" on a principle solely because the opposition seems daunting, then he or she is a gutless wimp.