It's called politics. He used them as now that he has won reelection, he no longer has to worry about votes and he knows, just like anyone with a pragmatic and realistic brain, that the assault weapons ban was never going to get through the Senate or the House.
If somebody breaks into your house and rapes your wife and your kids you would sit there and think"if only I had a gun so I could of stopped it" if one person at sandyhook would of had a gun then could of stopped the shooter..there is plenty of times when this is happened.. but you don't see the news reporting it.. to take our guns away is like saying to the criminals "sure come rob our house we can't do anything about it" and only god knows if they would kill you or not..
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.