Reply #156: Thanks TnDem, I've been wanting to make this point myself. [View All]

Personally I'm a fence sitter on gun control--I don't lie awake nights worryign that a bureaucrat might write a law that'd infringe my Constitutional rights. Nor do I fret about people I know who own guns.

But this issue IS hurting us, and at bare minimum, we have to stop saying "But we're ok with hunting!" as if that will innoculate us against the charges made by 2nd amendment hawks.

If I were running for President, I'd take a cold hard look at all the local ordinances out there and declare them largely ineffective. I'd propose that a 3-day governor's conference be hosted at Camp David (or someplace like that) where the different states would have an opportunity to speak out about what is and isn't working, and promise to review any and all Federal regs based on what we'd learned.

I'd stop demonizing the recreational gun owner, the one that simply enjoys shooting a weapon at a target, who sees a value in having a gun for defensive purposes.

We don't need to "drop gun control," so much as we need to stop acting like there's one reg that's a must-have. This, I think, would be a truly sensible middle ground.