Read Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. Let your pubbie politicians friends know what awaits them if they let Bush sign an extension of the law Hey Ray beat your chest all you want, you will get plenty of huzzahs on FR, but you will get whispers of "gun nut" by the people you met last night at the Clark meeting and probably 90% of people you meet out on the street.
Sorry to say but your rhetoric turns off people. Instead of repeating the mantra of "Enemies, Foreign, and Domestic" 1,000 times in peoples faces, how about trying to explain why the AWB ban is wrong. I know that isn't as sexy to you as shouting, "All enemies, foreign and domestic", but you may change minds using the soft sell, instead of the hard sell.
I tailor my message to my audience. I would think that the people here on FR understand this to a greater degree than most people and I don't have to explain it to them like children.
Does it scare you to hear this kind of talk? I'm sure that a lot of colonists were scared too during the time of our Founders.
I'm not comparing myself to them. I am saying that we are dealing with a lot more government than they even dreamed of. They'd be spinning in their graves if they could see how we accept government intrusion in our lives and the taxation that we pay. That toleration won't last forever.