Are we tilting at windmills re: national gun laws?

[Warren DeMontague]

50. Certainly, and I wouldn't argue that we need to do away with things like building safety or the EPA.

However, when people on our side want to censor the internet, outlaw 'blasphemous' cartoons, or tell people they can't buy a 32 oz. slurpee at 7-11, I do feel it gives people the wrong impression of what "progressivism" actually is about.

And regardless of how I, personally, feel about guns, it's consistently apparent that those kinds of personal freedom issues feed into that perception on that issue, as well. On the Federal level, it consistently clobbers us, and that doesn't look to change.

Now, I personally am of the opinion that in the grand scheme of things, the pseudo-authoritarianism espoused by a tiny but vocal minority on the left holds no candle to the genuine pseudo-fascism one finds on the right. But since, as you point out, we've had a (D) at the top of the DC food chain for the past 8 years, the larger voting populace may be a bit misguided as to which side genuinely has their personal freedom at heart. I suspect the truth will become apparent, before long.