People are not stupid because you disagree with them.
Proponents of gun control are proponents because they fear something. In order to stop them, you have to figure out what they are afraid of, and attack that fear. This article from JFPO is a great primer of what i am talking about.
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Liberals aren't stupid about guns. They are wrong, but they aren't stupid.How does my correspondent "know" that his neighbors would murder him if they had guns? He doesn’t. What he was really saying was that if he had a gun, he might murder his neighbors if he had a bad day, or if they took his parking space, or played their stereos too loud. This is an example of what mental health professionals call projection – unconsciously projecting one’s own unacceptable feelings onto other people, so that one doesn’t have to own them.
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Defense mechanisms are normal. All of us use them to some extent, and their use does not imply mental illness. Advocates of victim disarmament may be misguided or uninformed, they may be stupid, or they may be consciously intent on evil, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are "mentally ill".