I'm getting the general feeling that the people in support of banning guns is simply that they themselves don't carry a gun.

From their point of view gun control can only help. There may be some chance it'll prevent a shooting that might affect them. However since they don't have a gun they don't see how it could help them, and they don't seem to think much of the chance someone would stop someone on a rampage.

So they figure screw the constitution, the right to self defense, and the ability to go hunting etc for the people who do own guns, they do not care about them.

Now gun supporters could go around calling them names, pointing out how they don't support other measures the government wants to make to protect it's citizens like tapping calls to foreign countries because it so much as scratches the bill of rights. Or whatever.

But fundamentally people look out for number one. They aren't going to change their stance.

So I think that instead of legal battles more of an effort from people in support of the second amendment should be made to expose those who don't have and possibly have never seen a firearm to responsible gun ownership. Maybe invite them to a shooting range or something. Or maybe the NRA could subsidize first time gun owners or something. Or work on advertising weapons with safety measures like gun locks and with less lethal or overpenetrating types of ammo.