The single issue bozos are best excised from the GOP anyway.
I'm okay with the status quo. My Second Amendment rights are currently protected to my satisfaction - I own firearms and can carry them concealed on my person should I choose. I can't own a automatic chain gun. I'll take that tradeoff. I won't engage in an all-or-nothing scorched earth campaign, because I could never risk having NOTHING.
Making a recission of the AWB the seminal wedge issue is a guaranteed political loser for any party that engages in such a platform. But, losing politically is what a lot of our most vocal fellow Freepers do best.
It's not a minor point. It has to do with Freedom as I outlined to Mindbender above.
From #243...It appears that the House will not reauthorize it on their own. It's in your interest and President Bush's interest to make sure that law dies. Any efforts on the part of Administration to undermine the 2nd Amendment will be duly noted and taken into consideration during the campaign and at the polling place. It is very simple.
So the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America is a "minor and subsidiary" issue? Where did you ever get the idea that you were a "conservative" anyway?