What a pity I cannot be as calm and rational as you are.

Give me a break. You are near hysterical on the subject.

Blathering on with the same tired old rationales.

Interesting to note that I get LOTS of opportunities to "preach"!

Plenty of people...including plenty of kids getting killed -- by firearms.

So what about the kid at the gun show? What about kids playing with daddy's (or mommy's) gun? What about the kid playing in the front yard when hit by a drive by shooter -- who just stole the gun from someone's home.

Dead is dead. You can rationalize the death of children all you want. It doesn't bring them back.