I need help, re: guns and gun control.

[Simo 1939_1940]

38. "I can hear it in a debate."

The saying "Be careful what you wish for" comes to mind.

While I believe that such a aggressive posture would catch Mittens flat-footed, it would be strategically foolish nevertheless IMO, given Obama's senseless reversal of position on the importation of M1 Garands from South Korea - not to mention his poor track record on gun restriction. Going on the offensive could backfire in a very big way. Immediately after this decision I started getting e-mails from Rand Paul, blathering along the lines of "gun grabbing Democrats". (presumably because I'm a member of the NRA and CRPA) Clearly, the importation of these rifles would have zero (or next to zero) impact on gun crime. President Obama hasn't been terribly concerned about alienating the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, so I have a hard time believing that the move was designed to placate the liberal portion of his base. While his decision on this issue certainly doesn't represent a threat to the RKBA, in my mind it was extremely self-defeating in that it reinforces the notion that Democrats are ignorant and hostile w/regard to gun rights at best, and harbor hidden prohibitionist intent at worst. I'm truly at loss as to what a very sharp mind was thinking here. Was his decision influenced by some felony-poor input from advisors? Perhaps I'm making too much of this issue, but I feel that the President gave ammunition to the GOP with it - and it has disturbed me a great deal. I'd be very curious as to what other members of this forum feel about this.