keith, you make perfect sense if gun control is the be-all and end-all of our separate sovereignties---and it isn't. Climate control is the existential issue facing the world today; second, the state of democracy, and gun control is far down the list of our respective national priorities. As an active hunter and shooter, I've been delegated to represent the interests of our gun club with the federal government, which was successful in ending the long-gun registry. I'm assisting in our gun club's response to the proposed gun reforms. Feeling good by licking a stamp and sending off money to NRA isn't the only way to protect gun rights. Getting down in the muck and meeting collectively to protect interests produces positive change. You'd be blind not to see it in your country. A tea party turned the big one inside-out.