If gun control really is about sympathy for the victims

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1. From another OP

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172170784

Pro-control is against guns because they just don't like guns. Everything else is just an excuse.

IMHO, many pro-control believe that:
-1 No one, gun owners, manufacturers, sellers, advertisers... anyone who profits from them, is doing enough to prevent murders, shootings and suicides. (Ignore the rhetoric of what should actually be done.)

-2 Gun design was intended first as a weapon. Unilateral and aggressive weapon use has injury or death as its objective.

-3 In general, design refinements to guns make them more effective as weapons. Weapons which demand less effort, less skill or provide a more ergonomic design making killing easier and faster. They see these as unacceptable goals and effects.

For these reasons (and likely others) some pro-control folks see that all of those groups mentioned in #1, above, must take a much greater role in (and responsibility for) firearm misuse including criminal activity.