Did Bill Clinton say "This is a great step toward our goal of a totalitarian peoples' paradise" when the original AWB was passed?
To keep things under the radar screen, you don't say what you are actually doing. You say innocuous things that nobody can really interpret one way or the other, so the opposition can't use it for propaganda against you.
Politics is a game, it is not a religion. In religion there is only truth. In politics there is only winning or losing.
I would think "conservatives" would be tired of losing after 40 years of DEMONcRATS running circles around us, but I guess I am wrong.
I'm hoping you'll school me on this, and not the other way around. Let's wait and see what happens. I'm going to be that Assault Weapons Ban renewal will turn out to be more of a contentious issue than you suspect, because of Republican waffling.
Our reps on the hill know that we peons in flyover-land don't like gun control, but they can't understand why. The matter baffles them, for the most part. In absence of constant reinforcement to the contrary, they default to increasing gun regulation.
Enough of this... I need to sit down and write some paper-mail letters to my Senators, the more-or-less honorable Messrs. Edwards and Dole. [sigh]