Reply #50: There are a minority of Dems that want to outlaw some guns

[benEzra]

but they are unfortunately the ones who get most of the air time on the issue.

The Democratic party's main problem on the gun issue seems to be gullibility. If the anti-gun lobby tags a gun with a Scary Name (e.g., "assault weapon", "sniper rifle", "pocket rocket", whatever), there are those who won't look past the label and will jump on the "let's ban those" bandwagon. Look at the history of the "assault weapons" bait-and-switch, which even some prominent party leaders were taken in by, and you'll see what I mean.