These five mistakes share some common factors: they almost all involve lies and deception to sell the problem. In the lone exception – Colorado – they skipped selling it altogether and went straight to instituting policy without popular support. This is the second shared characteristic: they all involve attempts to push policy without broad support from ‘We the People’. Finally, each of the proposed policies do nothing to make people legitimately safer. While outside the scope of this article, they all, in fact, are counter-productive.

via Top 5 Gun Control Failures of 2013.

Read the article, it is right on the nose and we have discussed the points over and over in this and other blogs. I would add as mega-mistake allowing Dianne Feinstein’s over-sweeping Gun Ban bill to even hit the floor of Congress. It was an obvious chicken-kaka bill and lifted the mask about their true intentions. Then again they were 100% sure that they were going to win.