The answer is that they don´t care about the answers. Guns represent things that are abhorrent to the communists.
1. Personal Responsibility. Gun owners will not cower in fear and wait for a cop to protect their families. The banners would rather allow their families (and yours) to be a victim than to concede that an individual can be responsible.
2. Personal freedom. Gun owners want to pick what kind of gun they own, how they store and carry it, and where. They resent the government picking for them. They also resent having to defend their choices to people who would deny them the right.

I mentioned yesterday that the libs/communists see the populace as a mindless mob to be led or forced by the elites to do its will. They cannot fathom someone smart enough to make his own choices and live with the results of them. They hate you for daring to question their superiority.

They don´t care about the answers because guns aren´t really the question.

Can you imagine the slaughter that will take place along the Mexican border if a strict gun ban is put in place. They are having a hard enough time now trying to stay alive. If I were the gov of AR, NM, Nev, Texas i´d seriously consider seceding from the US and forming a new nation.

I wonder what would happen to the murder rate in Chicago if every citizen were required to purchase and carry a pistol?

Logic tells me the murder rate would drop like a rock.

Let´s try it!!

I´m becoming more and more convinced that liberals can´t be "educated" with facts. They know exactly what they´re doing.

Well, #3, if it didn´t reduce the murder rate it would, at least, cull the "herd".

The communists are only interested in the "control" part with them being in control. We need a serious political flush to rid ourselves of these elites.

I wish Lowry would do a little research. The Newtown incident was NOT carried out with a rifle! So Lowry´s histrionics on that regard are counter productive. Second, just because a rifle is semi-auto doesn´t mean it´s the same as an assault rifle. A true assault rifle, i.e. AK, SKS, M-16, or newer ones, will operate in a full auto mode. It´s a machine gun for Pete´s sake! What is common on the consumer market are "assault rifle STYLE" weapons. They may look like an assault rifle, or even be descended from one, but they aren´t fully automatic weapons (machine guns).

If I were young enough to have a child in school, and an armed guard was protecting it, he wouold be the first person shot by an intruder.

School grounds should be entered only through a manned gate equipped with a "dead man" switch which would alert the school office to a problem.

Every school should have a safe room for every four classrooms where children could be sent to protect them from harm while threats are being overcome.

The Left’s obsession with the notion of “gun control” is because of the phrase’s object, not its adjective. Replace that adjective with any other and they will be for it.

Sorry, #5 but I must disagree with your terminology. The "murder" rate would drop. However, the "self-defense" rate would drastically spike for a short period of time (your culling effect?); after which murder would settle to a very low norm.

Also, I think underwear sales would spike during that time period, as well. ;-)

Anyone who "Bump fires" a semi-automatic rifle like an AR-15/M-16 knows what fully automatic looks and feels like. One pull of the trigger and the entire magazine is emptied in a couple seconds. Do some research, it´s out there.

Gotta love the wordsmiths.

Nice try, Rich, but ....

Every gun is an assault weapon. Your show can be used to assault. Your spoons. Your car is the deadliest assault weapon to date.

Anything and everything can be used to assault.

The term "assault weapon", as used in the context of civilian rifles, has been attributed to gun-control activist Josh Sugarmann, author of the 1988 book "Assault Weapons and Accessories in America" who wrote:

“ Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons´ menacing looks, coupled with the public´s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons ..."

When you use activist created artificial terms, Rich you reinforce their language of domination.

The enemy has won when they put their mind in you.

#8, not if the shooter doesn´t know who the armed guard is, only that there is one. And if he knows that there is one, he´s likely to try his shooting spree somewhere else. These shooters are cowards - note that their response to being confronted or to the sound of approaching LEO´s is to kill themselves.

The people who want to grow the government, making it more intrusive and controlling, are the same people who want to confiscated our guns.

And we want to pretend they want to do that for our own good?