Because no matter how much the gun nuts think everyone in the country wants to carry around a deadly weapon in their daily lives, the vast majority of them don't. Not that it would likely have done anything for San Bernardino. You can't concealed carry an assault weapon, and a simple handgun wouldn't have stopped anything.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.