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I work with someone who is very anti-gun. I've had a number of conversations with her on the subject because she is bad about spouting liberal propaganda that she heard on the news without being able to back any of it up. When pressed on the issue of guns, her attitude is that something needs to be done. She sees all these shootings on the news and feels that something needs to be done. When asked what that something should be, she pops up with the usual liberal goals of more background checks and registration and bans, etc. When I point out why each of those would not have prevented any of the atrocities she cites as the reasons for such measures, she understands what I'm saying, but defaults to "well, something needs to be done." I think this is a lot of the problem right now. A lot of the public is being fed these horror stories, and the natural response is to be horrified and want something to be done to prevent it from happening in the future. The problem is that the Left is feeding them gun control as the solution, and that clearly won't work. They know it won't, so they know they will be able to continue to push for more and more until our guns are gone and it's too late.

I guess the tl;dr version is that most people aren't afraid of guns. They're afraid of criminals and terrorists. Every time the news talks about criminals and terrorists, they focus on the guns they used as being the problem. The problem is criminals and terrorists. The left will continue to be soft on criminals and terrorists so they they can take our guns.