Control? No.
Influence? Definitely.
Just look at the garbage-in media --> garbage-out election results of 2008. Look at the degree to which people are buying into the socialist, neo-Marxist ideas of "collective freedom" and "social justice" and allowing those constructs to replace real freedom and real justice in what used to be the free world. They don't have conservatives controlled and won't until they can openly use force to compel obedience, but they are close to reaching that threshold. If we mess up in 2012, they will be there.
They don’t have conservatives controlled and won’t until they can openly use force to compel obedience,
Therein lies the goal of gun control.
I think what this means is that conservatives actually tend to analyze things and consider their consequences, whereas “liberals” go for the sound bite and don’t think very deeply about anything whatsoever.
Hardly a positive trait, in my opinion.