Keep in mind that these people are not after the truth, they do not want to debate gun rights or anything approaching the principles our founding fathers so firmly believed in. They are zealots with a single agenda, the complete removal of firearms from our country. Nothing less is acceptable in their eyes. First, they want to register guns so that the criminals can't get guns. Then they want to ban assault rifles, or assault weapons as they call it. Next, they'll say that hunting is dangerous and we should only allow guns for target shooting. Then, you guessed it, target shooting is an activity that is only for the violent minded psychopath looking to fulfill murder fantasies and they will ban that as well. They know that none of their arguments are valid, they know that their "stages" of gun control won't work, but again, they're after the big prize, the total abolition of gun rights and ownership. With gun control, as with the AWB, crime wasn't reduced, and it won't be with any of their efforts. But when crime goes up after more of our rights are taken from us, they simply scream louder and demand more gun control. It's a downward sprial that only terminates when gun ownership is no longer allowed.
I liken these people to the terrorists that were involved in 911. Not that they are murderers, but in their strength of conviction. If you listen to their justification, it becomes clear that, in their feeble minds anyway, their actions are not only justified, but righteous. They are completely fixated on a goal, so fixated that right, wrong, common sense, and the truth are all mangled and distorted to the point that they will never see the truth, and will never stop. Look how far they have come in a short 50 years. I wonder what the next 50 years will have in store for gun rights and ownership.