Gun-rights advocates have to listen less! We must not surrender to divide-and-conquer arguments.
We cannot allow the nuanced rhetoric (and it's just rhetoric; the far left hates and fears all privately owned guns) to lead us to drop our guard or assume that any particular step toward a total ban is the final step. Those of us who like punching holes in targets may be the last to lose that right, but they will lose too - look at what happened in England and so many other places. Those of us who like to hunt must not listen to the lullaby from the left that claims to only be going after "bad" guns.
Those of us who see guns as a great equalizer that allows a family with young children to defend itself against a much larger intruder, as one mother recently did, and to defend against tyranny as we did 240 years ago have to speak up. The time to stop any effort to infringe on our fundamental, God-given and constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms is at the first step, not when the extremists come for us personally. The people of Massachusetts, back when they believed in freedom, stopped the Redcoats at the first sign of confiscation. They did not wait to be disarmed and then resist empty-handed.
Washington liberal elites live in expensive communities with security and major police protection. When a Washington elite calls the police a cop will be at their home in less than 7 minutes.
A middle class traditional American living in a rural area is NOT going to have a cop on the door step in 7 minutes - and maybe not in 20... but then again, how would liberal elites know that... facts and truth never enter their closed little minds.