Reply to TAB, Poorsoulin NJ, and others who think Ted is to brash, I will point out that for the last several decades the NRA has been run by people with a mind set similar to yours and they have been steadily loosing ground. Your ideas are no different than Obama's stated foreign policy, an attempt to reuse ideas that have consistantly failed in the past.
No war is won by defense, and if you do not think this is a war then you have not been paying attention for the past 90 years or so. Socialism is an INTERNATIONALIST ideology aimed at world domination, (Marx said communism would not be achieved from socialism until the entire world reached socialism. ) That is why a political theory dreamed up by and promoted by Germans achieved its first victory in Russia. Anyone who reads history knows that communist and socialist movements had begun infiltrating the US in the late 1800's. The fall of the Soviet Union did not end the attack on the US by world communism, it simply changed the nature of it, why else would one worlders like George Soros spend billions of dollars financing the likes of Rebbeca Peters and her UN attacks on gun rights world wide.
Now is not the time to "play nice" on the gun rights issue, We did that with FDR and got the NFA, we continued to follow your methods and got the GCA 68, we STILL didn't learn and got the clinton AWB. 3 strikes, your out. It is time to take the offensive and TAKE back our civil liberties. If you consider the Spanish American War and the aftermath in Asia of our media influenced withdrawal from Vietnam there is a case to be made that the 1st Amendment has killed more people than all the gun related deaths of the 20th century.
It's PAST time to fight back and Ted is the guy to take the fight to the enemy.