Ah, yes, the answer is always more guns, isn't it, Mr. Trump? Surely, the fact that the U.S. is the world's most armed first-world nation has nothing to do with the fact that it ranks alongside Somalia in gun death statistics. In fact, the now-ubiquitous high-capacity semi-automatic assault rifles may be eating away at American freedom. Cops are in an arms race with the American people. And they're stocking up to deal with it.

Again, the majority of Americans, from every major demographic cohort, support the measure. The results are consistent with previous polls. It's not Obama's half-measures that are at odds with the American public. It's conservative hatred of the president that's at issue, the polls show. Another recent poll concluded that attaching Obama's name to otherwise popular gun regulation drastically whittles support from conservatives.

We're not anti-gun. Let's address that right now. In fact, gun owners sit on the Quad-City Times editorial board. The deafening rhetoric piling up during an unusually rancorous campaign cycle is chock-full of intentionally misleading statements. Guns -- like motor vehicles and hand grenades -- have been regulated since their inception. And the National Rifle Association's push to totally deregulate firearms, particularly at the state-level, is based on nothing short of false history and bad constitutional law.