Guns will protect you from tsunamis.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I'm pretty sure - since it's in black and white in your above post as a quote - that what tw said is that you do in fact advocate gun control. That is, you agree that there should be gun control.

If by "gun control" you mean that people who own firearns should control them--not someone else--then you're right. But that's not what the idiom "gun control" means in normal discourse, ordinarily it means various forms of externally imposed governmental prohibition, as you have in AU.

The US "Gun Control Act of 1968" is a case in point. I don't find it personally particularly onerous, but I don't support it.

If you're going to talk about some meaning of "gun control" that doesn't include laws, then you'd better use some other phrase to refer to it, or you will be misunderstood.