Bah Humbug Bah Humbug.
Most parents tell their young children about Santa, then perpetuate the myth for many years.
It is good to believe in something good, despite the facts. While adults wink at each other, fascinated and amused at how the innocent child could believe something so far fetched as Santa Claus, they too are being duped. When we point out that gun control is unconstitutional, ineffective, oppressive, and based on myth, they try to explain that we don't understand, just as it is explained to a child how Santa visits every house in the world in one night, even houses without chimneys. Lies are used to explain lies. Then the subject is quickly changed.