There is great incentive to keep gun laws up for debate. As long as we have an issue that divides Americans, politicians can use it to wield influence and strengthen their own party interests. Those party interests are generally not guns nor abortion, but hot damn don't they get people all fired up and distracted. The corruption that permeates systems of power all over the world should be apparent to most people, but for some reason between patriotism, party loyalties, wishful thinking, and a huge majority of poorly educated citizens, we're so easy to dupe that we actually offer our own children upon our cultural alters.