The straw men are flying thick and fast on this thread! Behold, obfuscation at its rhetorical finest--the NRA is trying to not get pinned to the wall.

Let's put it this way: Pro-gun folks are entrenched in their views, just as the gun-control folks are. But the pro-gun folks, if they're honest, MUST be feeling a twinge of doubt about now. They protest too much the positive aspects of individual gun ownership. Act on that twinge. Accept that regulating hand guns is necessary (note, I didn't say hunting rifles.) Your way hasn't worked, so do something different.

I won't be moved by crocodile tears for the poor gun manufacturers and Washington lobbyists. They knew what they were doing. Now its time to pay the bill.

SRS