You have no "one issue" upon which you take a princpled stand?
Exactly.
An anti-gun prosecutor was assassinated in his home recently. There was much speculation that this might be due to his anti-gun activities.
Our nation's founders understood that it was necessary many times to avoid a open confrontation.
Perhaps someone can bring me up to date on a situation which occurred in the San Francisco east bay area.
A man running a sausage making business armed himself and shot three government inspectors. It seems that he thought he should make the decisions regarding the sausage recipe and not them. I have no direct information to help me decide whether this man was being tyrannized, but I do know that the government cannot withstand losses of three to one to any enemy.
Therein lies the reason for Waco. It was necessary to have an outcome in which more non-government people died than BATF agents. Otherwise, the government would be forced to admit that it is unable to disarm the populace.