Re: "Rational Gun Control"
While you can make some kind of weapon, and have a chance to kill a person or two with that - after all if you're strong enough all you need is a club or a stone, or even your bare hands - you need a lot of equipment and skills to build anything near an assault rifle, its magazines and ammunitions.
People WITH GUNS KILL TENS OF PEOPLE in a few minutes, at long range - and inflict devastating injuries to many of those who survive. Guns are dangerous because they have no other reason to exist but to kill, and are designed to be very effective at it.
Most people with metal illness aren't dangerous to others, many just to themselves. Yet, sure, there should be laws to ensure nobody can get a gun unless he can demonstrate he's fully stable, and guns should be revoked as soon as someone shows he's not fully stable at all.
But people worshiping deadly weapons have their own kind of mental illness, I'm afraid. Some probably really think they have to defend themselves from a zombie apocalypse...