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The anti's definitely seem to be emboldened and more passionate than they have been in recent years.

That said, I am at least partly comforted by the knowledge that the dems would rather keep this as an election issue than actually get any new restrictions passed. Just like their approach on immigration, and true progress for minority groups. If these problems get "solved" then they lose all power.

I suspect that they will most likely float an extreme proposal that sounds semi-reasonable to most folks, something like banning all semi-auto weapons. They know full well that this will never pass, so they have their mid-term issue ready to go to counter the republicans facts about an improving economy, etc. Plus, they have the MSM in their pocket to spin the proposal as a "common sense" restriction. I'm guessing it will be named an "assault weapons" ban despite the fact that it actually proposes to ban 90% of all guns. Ironically, the biggest risk of real restrictions is from the republicans, IMHO. Like we are seeing with the bump stock ban that is proposing to confiscate half a million legally owned guns.

Regardless of whether the real threat is coming from the left or the right, I do agree that we need to be vigilant. Now is the time to support groups like the NRA, and to get vocal about the importance of the second amendment and the danger that comes with an unarmed populace.