I cry bullshit.
You say that “All most people are asking for is a little societal responsibility; there’s no reason to ice-block it to the wall like a government takeover of citizen’s right to arms.”
Diane Feinstein says “”If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ – I would have!”
—This is the leader of the current anti-gun movement. Tell me she and the Brady idiots aren’t pushing to eliminate all firearms again. I will call you a liar and I will be right.
There is not reasoned discourse or reasonable discussion being held anywhere from the anti-gun people. There are straw man arguments and ad hominem attacks instead of reasoned discourse. What I see from the anti-gun movement are butchered statistics and studies cited from half a century ago and misleading statements that are simply not based in fact.
On a basic level if you have not ever fired one of the weapons you propose banning you do not have enough knowledge to make that decision for everyone else in the country. Period.
If you have not “seen the elephant” or heard a shot fired in anger or been the victim of a violent attack you simply lack the ability to understand the mental outlook of the people who understand that the world is not now and never will be a mickey mouse utopia as you wish it were.

Evil exists. Often enough, it wears a uniform or holds public office.

Maybe you will live your entire life without every having to defend yourself or someone you love from someone who simply doesn’t see you as a person but merely a thing to be abused at their whim.

Maybe you will live your entire life in a safe little rut where you never even have to interact with people you don’t know personally and grew up with.

Some of us live in the real world with the problems the real world contains.

William S. Burroughs said:
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”

Rick Perry said:
“In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That’s what makes them criminals.”

James Earl Jones said:
“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.”