Liberals squirm when you point out that they want the same gun laws that brutal regimes like China and Russia have. I'd bet very good money that at the CNN townhall, if you had described China's gun laws without saying whose laws they were, the crowd would have cheered wildly. Yet, they actually booed when Dana Loesch advocated tougher background checks to keep mentally ill people from getting guns.
They riot when Ann Coulter comes to town. It's actually a good thing leftists have indoctrinated young bed wetters to be afraid of guns. That's why America won't fall from within because self reliant people oppose regressive collectivism and the piss poor if not deadly itself "public safety" leftist regimes notoriously provide the peasants. I'll accept the threat of some crimes among the population. An out of control government with a sociopath like hitlery ruling a "disarmed" population can lead to death tolls in the 10's of millions as far as I can envision.
In my county, the students at some schools have announced they're gonna stage a walkout to protest the idea of arming teachers! I asked one of our teen neighbors (whom I'll call Jane), "Do they [the students] just wanna stay defenseless?" The conversation proceeded something like this:
Jane: Well, no. They want the police to protect them, not teachers.
Me: But the police often cannot get to the school until after the shooting is over. What do you do in the meantime--just hide and hope the shooter doesn't find you?
Jane: Well, we wouldn't mind having a security guard or two at the school full time.
Me: Stoneman Douglas High School had a deputy sheriff assigned to the school, but he chickened out and refused to confront the shooter. What's more, four other deputy sheriffs arrived while the shooting was still going on, and they all stayed outside until the shooting was over. Do you think that that coach who shielded students from bullets would have run away if he had had a gun? What do you think that coach would have done if he had had a gun to fire back at the shooter?
Jane: [Her face became a blank stare and you could see her brain turning over and over as she pondered that question.] Well. . . . Uh. . . . Umm. . . . If we had already banned assault rifles, the shooting wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Me: France banned assault rifles long ago, yet bad guys were able to get several of them and used them to carry out the Paris terrorist attacks. If we can't keep people from getting illegal drugs, how are we gonna stop bad people from getting illegal weapons? If someone is willing to shoot students, do you think he's gonna care about gun laws?
Jane: [Another blank stare] Well. . . . Uh. . . .
I think I opened her mind just a little bit.