Yes, and the hyperbole is so thick, you could cut it with a knife:
Add to that mix an elderly person with breathing problems who cannot go outside without breathing someone else's cigarette smoke and painfully coughing their guts out just to go to their mailbox.
Sounds like "...... thousands of innocent children being gunned down every year by ruthless gang-bangers with military assault rifles......."
Why is it that the exact arguments in favor of government control being made by liberals are thought to be "conservative" by these people?