Reply #79: Oh, stop being so rational! You and I both know being rational on this issue

[CTyankee]

is gonna be political suicide (well, maybe you don't feel that way but it's a tough issue for us). I don't see what we'll gain by being in favor of it. As a practical matter, it just won't happen in most states, so all the arguments about public safety are fine, but irrelevant and can lose us the WH in 08.

I hate to say this because I agree on the public safety point. But there will be a reckoning and when we get in power we can study the entire issue overall, not in piecemeal fashion that will get us nowhere, literally, except out of power.