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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dru" data-source="post: 2614538" data-attributes="member: 3047">This is, in no way, an enlightened way of thinking.  Look at the timing of these articles:  it seems to me that this is just an attempt to message the gun grabbers and get them to back off pushing gun control and the more extreme measures that have been proposed ahead of the midterm elections.  Look at the policy recommendations by Center for American Progress - UBC which can only be enforced with a registry, trying to redefine mental illness so that more people get caught up in that, and permits to buy/possess assault weapons.  Even in the paper put out by CAP they say that they need to wait for another crisis by saying: “You want to be ready for when there is an opportunity to move federal legislation,” Mr. Gerney said. “Once in a while you have to take the long view and take a look at what are the problems we’re facing, what are the set of policy solutions? Do the solutions match the problem and have we taken a fresh look at the problem?”So yeah, nothing to see here.  Once the midterms have passed, AWBs and mag caps will be once again en vogue with the politcal class and progressive think tanks.</blockquote>