I used to have a signature at a gun forum, "100 million American gun owners killed nobody today". It illustrates two major things, one that gun ownership is extremely common yet all these tens of millions of people are able to contain themselves on a daily basis and behave like civilized beings; and two, that it's not newsworthy until someone does commit crimes with a gun.
I'm really weary of having to do what feels, in essence, like fighting the American Revolution all over again -- every single time some lunatic goes and gives a salivating press a chance to pull up Microsoft Word and do a quick find-and-replace before reprinting their favorite narrative with the latest names, dates, and places filled in. We all know what their goal is, and I'd rather they just go ahead and make their play.