If saving lives is the objective let's look at the facts

[DonP]

2. Don't forget conflating crimes with law abiding gun owners

We get a regular crop of posts here about crimes committed by people that are already banned from owning firearms. I wish they would just move those to the True Crime forum.

I have to assume the posters don't see any moral, ethical or practical difference between an armed robbery or a biker gang shooting up the territory and a bunch of target shooters planning a range trip for the weekend.

Kind of a, "they own guns and you own guns so you're all the same".

Pretty stupid and proven ineffective approach, and probably one of the reasons why the control fans can't get anything done besides applauding "back benchers" introducing one pointless new gun regulation after another that will never get out of committee to generate campaign contributions.

But then again, we also know that gun control supporters aren't big about getting out their checkbooks anyway.