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The media would go bezerk and the public would be outraged. This will take stealth and cunning if we are ever going to repeal the Hughes amendment.
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<cue up dramatic music and a shot of a helicopter rising over smoke in the desert>
"The gun lobby would have Congress legalize machine guns and other weapons of war."
<run shot of Somali children brandishing AK-47's, then fade to still pictures of mass graves in Darfur>
"If this happens, a teenager in Detroit can own the exact same weapons used by America's enemies abroad."
<cut to shot of Daniel Pearl, then to shot of the rifle rack of a suburban gun store. Long focus on AR-15's on the rack.>
The extremists at the NRA would allow white-supremacist and anti-government militias <cue footage of somebody brandishing a semi-auto AK-47 and a rebel flag> to arm themselves just as well as our soldiers.
Under this new law, anyone can walk into a local gun show and purchase a rocket launcher, a box of grenades, or Sarin gas without so much as a background check.
<cue to shot of someone carrying a WASR/10 at a gunshow>
Tell your Congressman that enough is enough. We won't stand silent while Kalamazoo becomes Kosovo.
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This is exactly how the Brady Campaign would do it (and it would revitalize them), and this is exactly what the current administration needs to jump into the gun-control arena.
I know. I lived through 1993.
In a few more years, when funding has dried up for gun-control groups, and we're in a better political climate, we might consider a very cautious approach to repealing the Hughes Amendment.
For now, it's best we stick to fights we
can win, both in Congress and in the court of public opinion.