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In today's news (The Hill link on Drudge, center column), Republican senators McCain, Collins, and Heller are reported to be likely to sign on to universal background checks. Trial baloon? Baloney? Some truth there? Who knows. Not trying to paint all Republican federal legislators with a broad brush. Just pointing out that at least some Republican senators may not yet get it.

It would be worthwhile to discuss an issue without having to fend off ad hominem attacks of "disingenuous" or "naive." The topic was senate negotiations on universal background checks. I think we can agree that universal background checks are a non-starter because they would have to lead to gun registration. I don't think it's any mystery where the gun confiscation folks stand on gun registration. Can we really afford to give an inch on the gun registration issue? If not, then why negotiate on it? What could we possibly get in return? And no, I am not calling for disunity among gun rights supporters. But I don't want to rally around the idea of giving up on a single 2nd Amendment issue. That's a losing strategy, in my view.

Sorry to be disagreeable, Froggie, but what else can one conclude when a Republican expresses willingness to foster gun registration via background checks? Would YOU offer to sit down and discuss it with the Democrats, knowing their long-standing gun confiscation agenda? Given the pattern of Republican cave-ins over the past decades, it's not ingenuous to declare that they are just talking. Republican does not equal conservative on the national level, not since Reagan. Has the Republican congressional leadership welcomed tea-party freshmen congressmen? no sir. The Republicans express embarrassment when Ted Cruz (another tea party senator) leads the fight. Who's being disingenuous here? It's not disingenuous to suggest that the old Rockefeller wing of the Republican party, who is definitely in charge of the party, does not represent the best interests of Americans' right to keep and bear arms.