Ed Huntress wrote:


The NRA chose to fight the battle on those terms some time ago. It's one way
to fight a battle. It's the divisive way. The question is, whether they'll
find themselves on the smaller side of the divide one day. It hasn't
happened yet, and it wavers back and forth. But neither winning the day, nor
losing it, is going to justify the fact that you, and they, squandered
widespread public support for the sake of building a cadre of True
Believers.


Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4020453.stm