They probably assumed you were referring to "assault weapons" because lets face, most liberals don't know the difference between the two either. And it was the gun grabbing liberals who invented the term "assault weapon" in a deliberate attempt to confuse it with the term "assault rifle." So this is what you get for the Brady Campaign's propaganda machine to make people fear semi-automatic rifles that share cosmetic features of with military weapons, but are in reality no more dangerous.
WTF!?! Assault rifles are worse. Are you saying you want to ban a weapon NOT used in the Sandy Creek massacre because of the Sandy Creek massacre?
Makes perfect sense... no, really.
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.