Thinking, rational thought is anathema to the Left, particularly the low-information component of that group whose interests run more to watching the Kardashians or Honey Boo-Boo
You can pretty well set your watch by the time it takes the Left to crawl out from under their rocks and call for stricter gun laws, following a mass shooting such as the one in Aurora, Colorado, or the one in Connecticut. Leftists, whose basic functions are right brain based and thus “feel” more readily than think, believe the solution to gun crime of the recent sort is to ban assault weapons.