MMP on Obama Pot Policy: "Worst president in history." Guns play role.

[SteveW]

13. Part of the problem is the culture war which inevitably grows up around prohibitions...

Newt Gingrich, among many on the Far-Right, took dead aim at the counter-culture of the 60s in creating his 1990s "revolution," using marijuana has a major club to hit at anyone to the left of Eisenhower (though he was a toker himself). And many Second Amendment advocates have fallen into line, or are intimidated into falling the Far-Right party-line, if for no other reason than to club down their enemies because of expediency.

You not only commit an offense, but you can be judged a felon and have your guns confiscated and barred from ever owning them again (I believe that can be concluded by the language at the end of 4473.