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hlh wrote:
All bets are off if some idiot kills a bunch of innocents in a gun free zone.
Not necessarily... just as it's easy to point and claim reason for additional gun control measures, one can point out just how ineffective the existing ones were and how additional ones won't help.
Massive shooting incident. Outcry for more Gun Control.
Reasoned Response: Give a short summary history of gun control legislation that has been enacted. Intersperse that with gun catastrophes that occured *AFTER* enactment of Gun Control legislation.
Then move to "All those existing gun control measures failed repeatedly time and again to keep law abiding citizens safe from criminals with guns. The Government's response was to enact more gun control laws. So why do we want to enact more laws to keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens? Why are weenacting lawsto protect criminals? It wasn't the law-abiding citizens who committed the crimes. It was criminals.
Then move to: "The Brady organization and other gun control groups actions while driven by good intentions, only serve to protect criminalsand NOTlaw-abiding citizens. If they were well and truly desiring to keep law abiding citizens safe from criminals, they would join us helping every American become a lawfully armed citizen."
I'm sure that someone can word smith that even better and turn it into a PR bonanza for gun-rights.