Your missing something big anyway: Enforcement. The vast majority of cops in the U.S. are in fact pro-gun. So are the members of the military, although to use them for the purpose of law enforcement would violate the posse comitatus act.
Aaron I always see you and others (such as the link you posted a few posts back) say that gun control will not work by comparing it to drug or alcohol control. That really doesn't make sense.
Just because you failed at something doesn't mean you should stop trying. By that logic you should not go to war ever again, because, how well did the last few wars work out for you?
To me, the bottom line is that gun control has worked in other countries. Doesn't matter if firearms are evil or not, or why the 2nd amendment is there, or whether assault rifles are easily accessible, or anything else...the fact is that other countries that have gun control have had better results.
Hell, even here, in Iran, where the government is messed up and there is corruption everywhere. We still don't have random shootings by civilians on civilians. And I'm pretty sure that a larger percentage of people here are either evil or so much under pressure by economic and political difficulties that they could lose their mind any second.
Altho I do understand that control might not work in the US, as there is a different culture and view on things in there and it might have different results.
What the left always forgets is we have more privatly owned guns to start with than those other countrys did, and confiscating them would be tricky due to reasons I already listed.
Hmmm its not about what we want, we are discussing opinions. We Europeans cant and dont want to do jack in your country. But we can discuss them as much you guys discuss our issues
