BB: I hate to disagree, but "gun control" (whatever that really means) has always been a "right" issue. There is no army of lefties out there waiting to pry the guns from your cold dead hands. The vast majority of people to the left of center (and I'm not going to attempt to define that, either) could care less if you own and use firearms, as long as you do it safely and sanely.

Based on my own circle of friends and acquaintances, there are about the same percentage of people throughout the political spectrum who own firearms for hunting and personal protection. Admittedly, there are some people on the idiot fringe, somewhere to the left of Ted Kennedy, who would like to register all guns, but the NRA and other members of the gun lobby are the ones who have somehow morphed this into a desire on the part of "liberals" (whatever that means) to confiscate guns. This is a hot button that can always be depended upon to bring out the single-issue voters.

Now, enforcement of the existing laws against private ownership of automatic weapons, and getting all of the AK-47s off the street, is a different issue, but one for another thread.