I think we all agree that the people who won the gun control debate, at least this time, were the paranoid wing of the gun rights side.
I consider myself in the rational wing of the gun rights side, and I think I can defend this by pointing out that I've been saying for years that we've needed universal background checks, which is exactly what the unamended bill that was just yanked from the Senate would have established. If nothing else, UBCs would have given the BATF the best of all hammers to use against gun traffickers that supply the majority of firearms to street gangs. This, and not assault weapons, is the major firearms problem in the US, and it should have been addressed. For this reason, UBCs should have been a slam dunk.
Instead, they went down in flames.
What went wrong?