There are alot of comments here that illustrate how dead the debate is. There is no middle ground anymore. The firearms community has experienced the resilts of laws passed by uniformed people, who are more interested in banning objects, and harassing legal firearms owners than achieving any sort of  positive result.   The media is woefuly one-sided.

The anti-guns taught the pro-guns well. Now we have a situation where no one wants to give an inch