If Senator Joe Manchin would make a public statement denouncing the ban of any kind of weapons, asserting that his expansion of background checks would be the only such firearm restriction measure that he would ever support, then people might at least be a little less likely to suggest that his plan was only step one in boiling the frog that is the second amendment. Whining about it will not help.
However, he needs to understand that he is seen as standing shoulder to shoulder in this effort with people who are committed to banning certain kinds of firearms and to potentially banning all private gun ownership. Joe - it is guilt by association - lying with dogs gives you fleas. this is, after all, the same tactic being used by the anti-gun crowd when they conflate law-abiding gun owners with the the likes of Adam Lanza and James Holmes.
Hoe: If you don't like being cast in with the Schumers and Feinsteins of the world, then stand up and say you abhor their ideas, show that you intend to protect the rights they intend to assault. Until then, you look more like a puppet than anything, giving them the first bite of the apple.
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