It has come to my attention that not once has anyone in this forum posted a link to the Gun Facts website or document.
www.gunfacts.info is the home of the semi-famous gunfacts.pdf file, now in its fourth incarnation, which cites valid counterarguments to just about anything that proponents of gun control will throw at you. From the AWB to .50 rifles to concealed carry to myths about gun deaths among children, it has a little bit of everything in a concise, easy-to-unerstand format (although it has been criticized for being too "pre-digested" for the tastes of many scholars and serious debaters.)
The site (in case you already forgot about the link in the second sentence of my post):
www.gunfacts.info
The document:
http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-fa...s4-0-Print.pdf
I'm using it to write a paper which I hope to use in a presentation for my communications final in order to convince a class of 14 bleeding-heart liberals (and one moderate Republican) with a Socialist professor* that gun control isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm hoping for one or two conversions, five or six, "you do make a good point," and for the rest to at least her the opposing view from someone on their level who they trust as a reputable source of information.
* - the following conversation occurred between my brother and his daughter (firends in the same class, his statement was said jokingly, not maliciously):
Steve: Yeah, and your dad is a communist
Anna: No he isn't .... actually, he does have a picture of Karl Marx hanging in his office ... yeah, he's a Commie