Reply #13: Actually, the gun-controllers/banners are using fear; it's popular, now...

[SteveM]

They look at the instrument and call for control/bans. It is NOT a a "reasonable reaction" to "see less of them about, it is called sanity." That is a fearful reaction, just as we see with so many tea-bag reactions to merely being Islamic.

"Assumption of responsible behavior" is what holds a civilized society together -- even if we all know that such assumptions are "not dependable" -- yet we must make them every time we head down the road at 60 mph and the other lane is coming "at us" at 60 mph.

Frankly, these shooting incidents are indeed an excuse for gun-controllers to inject more fear into a fear-addled society.

You would agree that the vast majority of the 80,000,000+ American gun-owners are "responsible," would you not? If not, do you have any data which would show this?