I guess my only response is anecdotal.
I grew up in North Dakota where it was pretty standard for people to hunt, and my family was no different. The first gun I purchased was a .12 gauge shotgun for hunting ducks and geese. To make that purchase I literally rode my bike downtown with $300 cash in my pocket that I had saved mowing lawns and doing odd jobs, walked into the local Gambles Hardware store and bought the gun. I wasn't even 18 years old. I rode home with the gun, in the box, perched on the handlebars of my bicycle. The whole thing took me about 1/2 hour.
Now, I think it's fair to say that could not be repeated today. It's simply something, that due to my advance age, I had a chance to experience.
Since that day we have seen in this country a variety of legislative efforts on both the state and federal level to assemble some "roadblocks" to purchasing weapons that might be used by people who shouldn't be using them. Notwithstanding rules and regulations regarding who can purchase guns, how much time you have to wait, background checks, forms to fill out, registration, etc..., by the accounts of many people we have an ever-increasing gun problem.
While I don't fault, at all, those people who want to at least try to prevent the next Newtown event, all I can tell you from decades of observation is the way you're going about it really isn't too successful. That, coupled with my personal distaste for grandstanding politicians who pass a law as a kneejerk reaction that they know, from the same experience I've had, will have little or no impact, just gets under my skin a bit.
