[TheRealThing]

^^All this back and forth about banning assault weapons, is gun control hidden in verbosity. In other words, it is a rationalization of which on its face seems like common ground until one thinks it through.

Here is what I mean, look what you have as the result of the repeal of DADT. Remember the rationale, talking points, put forth as the perfect middle ground that time? 'They (gays) just want to be happy' the left wing social justice warriors claimed. And 'how could the rest of us deny those who have laid their lives down for this country that fundamental dignity,' they asked? Of course, such is merely a way to run over the constraints that stand in the way of what they like to call "moving forward," as it was God's law that had to be overturned or redefined in this case, in order to move forward. And do I even need to point out that no man has the authority to presume to overrule the Almighty? So now, even though DADT was supposed to affect only the US military, society at large now deals with it on a daily basis as the baby step under which it was sold to the masses, immediately became the preeminent consideration in the limelight of foreign and domestic policy maneuvering.

The exact same smoke screen is being run at us again, and I would not be at all surprised to see it succeed if this President has a thing to do with it. Which brings us to the aggregate of my argument; the baby step this time will be to ban what are known as assault weapons. Seriously, where it comes to guns, be they 2 shot derringer or AR 15, there are only two uses for guns outside of sport, and that is to assault someone or group, or in defense of such assault by someone or group. Only criminals murder other people, and gun control measures absolutely will not ever keep guns out of the hands of criminals. All it will do, owing to government listings of same, is cause the law abiding folks to be oppressed not only by would be criminals including lone wolf and organized terrorists, but by the tyranny of government itself, which today is rife with those who would like nothing better than to deny US taxpayers their second Amendment rights. And that is certainly one distinction between Republicans and Democrats.

In any event, just as in the case of the little compromise made to the LGBT community in repealing DADT, allowing the federal government which is supposed to be in service to the people BTW, to ban any particular class of guns by relabeling them as sinister or otherwise illegal, will open the floodgates of gun control. This is the inroad they are looking for, anyway to ban just one gun and they'll be off to the races. Just as surely as homosexuals, thanks to the repeal of DADT, vaulted from moral depravity to suddenly become a protected class. Any lucid minded citizen understands this simple truth.