If you insist on being offended, I can’t stop you - but if that’s the case I also won’t take that offense seriously. I never called anyone stupid, never called anyone cattle, and I think my other posts make it clear that I think these people are being misled by cynical hucksters rather than being idiot rednecks (another characterization you threw out upthread). We all have biases and being deceived isn’t a character flaw. Playing to people’s biases to scare them to your own advantage, however, is. Either way, my point isn’t that the NRA are a bunch of scam artists (for the record, they are): it’s that both sides are happy to appeal to emotion, so criticizing one side for that behavior is not reasonable. If you’re going to say that gun control advocates are climbing on tops of the bodies of dead children to scare or guilt people into supporting stricter gun laws, you should acknowledge that some gun rights advocates are happy to frighten people with images of a tyrannical federal government sending the army to confiscate their guns.
Like I said: there are probably a lot of reasons, including the NRA itself, the Second Amendment, American gun culture, the lack of widespread agreement on what better gun control would look like, and (as Der Trihs suggested) the fact that there isn’t a not-selling-guns industry. I’m not sure how much that really matters.