It’s simple.
1. Invite only those people who either (a) agree with you (idiots like Bloomberg), or (b) will be ridiculed by your friends (NRA).
2. Declare that everyone (important/sane/enlightened) agrees.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
IF we get a new, outside-the-beltway, conservative-controlled Congress and a conservative President in 2012 or thereafter, perhaps there will come a day when the 2nd amendment propertly interpreted again. Nothing in the Constitution gives authority over firearms to the government, accordingly, the right to bear arms is retained by the States and the people. The 2nd amendment merely reiterates the right to bear arms, which removes the right of any State to infringe on the right to bear arms.
It seems as I should put my tax return towards the purchase of some skillfully machined metals.
Again with the high capacity ammunition “clips”. Is it asking too much that these ignoramuses learn the correct terminology before opening their pie holes?