That's exactly right, GSB.
Whenever the Kerry Kreature talks about "criminals" or "terrorists," he's talking about people like you and me. He's not even thinking about any Islamic extremists or anybody except *American* gun owners. To him, and to pretty much his whole party, gun owning *Americans* are the real enemy and the real threat. *We* are who he wants the Department of Homeland Defense to crack down on. *We* are who he wants to use all the police state provisions of the Patriot Act to go after.
It was the same with Clinton: all through the Nineties Clinton directed the Justice Department and the FBI to just disregard the threat of Moslem terrorists, and to focus instead on -- you guessed it -- *American* gun owners and Second Amendment activists, and abortion protestors, tax protestors, homeschoolers, "angry white men," and conservative talk radio hosts.
Bush is no prize, but Kerry's an actual *menace* to the liberties and even lives of real Americans. (Islamic extremists will be off the hook, though.)
MCB