Columnist Philip Morris writes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

It remains a continuing source of frustration for me to witness the weakness and the impotence of the gun control lobby and those who sympathize with them. Gun enthusiasts and Second Amendment purists have taken complete ownership of the domestic arms race, leaving us without a much-needed genuine debate and resulting compromise.

Mr. Morris, the reason why we gun-rights advocates own this debate is that the so-called gun lobby is not interested in anything that we recognize as "compromise".  "Gun control" to them is little more than gun confiscation, they want to control guns right out of citizens hands.  Every gun-owning citizen is to them a "potential criminal".

Independent-minded citizens have considered the issues in this debate and have decided in favor of the right to self-defense.