Think about it carefully before you decide to sit out the election or vote 3rd party. I did, and this issue is one of the main factors that convinced me that I have to hold my nose and vote for McCain after having repeatedly stated on FR that I wouldn't. There is just too much at stake on too many critically important issues in this election for me to indulge my intense dislike for McCain by failing to oppose a far worse threat to my liberties and the liberies of my children and grandchildren.
“The state, in its criminal code, forbids citizens to have firearms or other weapons, but does not undertake to defend them.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, _The Gulag Archipelago_ (1975)