With opponents of gun control already trotting out the line that President Obama's new proposals aren't worth pursuing because they won't work, it is worth recalling the famous words of Mr. Gradgrind, the dictatorial headmaster in Dickens's "Hard Times": "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts:... (GunPolicy.org)