>Thank God (anybody's god!) that we (center or left) are in the vast majority! Common sense will prevail...may take a little time but it will. Why in the world is our safety in this country being dictated by the NRA and a bunch of slack jawed billy bobs?? (I know, because the NRA has a better lobby (... for now...).

You read it wrong. Today's policy is being set by the knee-jerk, brain dead liberals like Al sharption, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and, of course, the poster child for the socialist left, Nobama, who want to enslvae people to the government dole.