> Gun rights are a core right wing shibboleth, like anti-abortion, therefore
> worth attacking.
>
Which basically validates the right wing belief that the left would remove gun rights completely if it could. I can think of no better way to further marginalize the left in the eyes of two thirds of the population.
Left and right both support the first amendment, the fourth amendment, and others (albeit with minor differences in interpretation in places) so there is fertile common ground and plenty of it, save for this. Pity.
--ma