Gun advocates don't just oppose gun control and discussions of gun control
Post in discussion forums and you will find that many that oppose gun control also oppose educational programs and cultural approaches which discourage gun use and gun possession, but don't actually outlaw or regulate it.
Many don't even want you saying that guns are not the solution to violence.
It's no wonder that many of us suspect that these are not the words of activists, but lobbyists for the gun manufacturers and their trade associations.
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Tsk, tsk.
Ooops, did I say 'loaded?'
we're done. 
for a long time, attempted to shut down any discussion of guns *at all* in General Discussion.
it was rather obvious.
"no gunz, no gunz" in GD...
(what they didn't say: "because we're outnumbered in here"
It really is quite funny how you guys obsess over the fact GCRA that even exists. It drives you nuts, and every time I see one of you whine about it existing, I smile 
You're doing a fine job proving the OP's point, though:
Guns are not the solution to gun violence.
Well, I haven't commented alt all, except to respond to people on your side of the issue, who are studiously ignoring any notion of a decent interval, or comment to others about said studious avoidance.
See, thats hard to buy, when those making and supporting such accusations regularly ignore government research that was done by the CDC as commissioned by President Obama:
2. Most indices of crime and gun violence are getting better, not worse. “Overall crime rates have declined in the past decade, and violent crimes, including homicides specifically, have declined in the past 5 years,” the report notes. “Between 2005 and 2010, the percentage of firearm-related violent victimizations remained generally stable.” Meanwhile, “firearm-related death rates for youth ages 15 to 19 declined from 1994 to 2009.” Accidents are down, too: “Unintentional firearm-related deaths have steadily declined during the past century. The number of unintentional deaths due to firearm-related incidents accounted for less than 1 percent of all unintentional fatalities in 2010.”
5. Mass shootings aren’t the problem. “The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearm-related deaths,” says the report. “Since 1983 there have been 78 events in which 4 or more individuals were killed by a single perpetrator in 1 day in the United States, resulting in 547 victims and 476 injured persons.” Compare that with the 335,000 gun deaths between 2000 and 2010 alone.
7. Guns are used for self-defense often and effectively. “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year … in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008,” says the report. The three million figure is probably high, “based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys.” But a much lower estimate of 108,000 also seems fishy, “because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.” Furthermore, “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was 'used' by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/06/handguns_suicides_mass_shootings_deaths_and_self_defense_findings_from_a.html
