Good grief, what a collection of misleading statements and outright lies. I don't even know where to start.
How about with the two fine youths who committed the assault in the first place. Apparently Dan is upset because they used guns in their attack. Dan, would it have been somehow more acceptable to you if those two teenagers were beaten to death, or stabbed? You WERE aware that murder and assault were illegal, no matter WHAT the weapon used is, right?
How about 'the NRA, which represents gun manufacturers and sellers'? Dan, this one is an outright lie - the National Rifle Association represents the four million gun OWNERS who've joined it. Not manufacturers, not gun stores. They represent people like ME. (disclosure: yes, I'm a gun owner. I carry a gun every day and have for many years. No, I'm not a cop or a security guard, just a law-abiding citizen.)
About the only thing that's got any ring of truth in your screed, Dan, is your last paragraph - when communities have had enough, they'll be pressuring the courts to keep these young hooligans where they belong - behind bars.
And I have to wonder about the parents of those young thugs - where the heck were they when their kids were learning that assault and murder were acceptable? I think that the parents are MUCH more to blame than the guns. Tell me, Dan... do you call for knife control when you read about a stabbing? How about a law against those dangerous assault baseball bats made out of aluminum. No law abiding baseball player NEEDS an aluminum bat, anyway!
See how ridiculous it is to blame the weapon? No gun made can pull it's trigger by itself - for that it needs a human.
I won't even start on poor Dan about how he obviously wants to have 80 year old grandmothers take on street thugs in a fair fist fight... which is the obvious end to gun control: making sure that the strong can prey on the weak, old and infirm by denying them the use of the only weapon that can even up the odds. I'm sure that Geneva Sozanski is happy that she didn't have a gun when she was assaulted a few weeks ago! Why, her attacker might have gotten hurt or something if she'd been armed!
Blame the thugs, Dan... not the inanimate objects that they use in their murderous attacks.