All sorts of folks are here on the High Road with all sorts of opinions. In general I’ve found the ones that defend their right to their opinion the most are the most vocal in denying anyone else right to have a different opinion. With some posters there is no end in the amount of typing they will do to re state their point of view over and over again, no limit to how farfetched scenarios they will come up with, inapplicable historic analogy they will call up, or rare occurrences they will use as examples to support their point of view.
It's not PC, but I'm of the idea that a belief doesn't become automatically reasonable and valid just because somebody chooses to promote it.
There's a difference in a well reasoned position (such as the argument about whether non-violent felons should be allowed to own guns) and an emotionally-charged distrust of other law-abiding gun owners. He claimed that for some reason, people who work in a Federal building shouldn't be allowed to carry, without providing any reasonable arguments for his position. Why would you defend somebody's belief when they can't even defend it themselves?
There is right and wrong. Opinion isn't all that matters, and feelings often lead people off the path of logic and down the road of emotional hand-wringing and fear. In my opinion, emotion and fear have no place in the discussion of legal rights.
I have no problem debating someone who has a reasoned, well-defended position. No one should expect that they can promote an elitist, emotional view of other gun owners without being challenged.
Oh, I’m thinking he will not mention anything about firearms. Despite what he has said and done in the past, and despite what many have predicted he will do, he has not taken any steps to tighten gun control since taking office. He is a politician first and for most, one who has won every election he has entered. I’m thinking he does not see gun control as an issue that will win him more votes or support right now then it will lose, so he is going to stay out of it. (Of course when the political winds change he will change with them.)
When he first took office, one of the most prominent policy points on the White House website was the desire to re-up the failed 1994 "Assault Weapons Ban". Holder leaked word of that plan and a firestorm erupted, and he's been quiet on the subject since.
Do not mistake his silence with lack of willingness. This administration lets no crisis go to waste. You'd better believe that if anybody shoots up a mall with semi-auto AK clone in the next couple of years, he'll be ready to support a ban.
Look down your long nose in contempt at that opinion if you'd like, but I read his explicit intent on the White House website with my own eyes back in 2009.
Keep in mind that his blanket support for amnesty, cap and tax, and the massive health care bill are horribly unpopular, but he still pushed forward. Don't imagine that popular opinion will sway our President when he's doing what he thinks is right. (Sorry to veer from the topic of guns, but I'm just using those examples as evidence that popular opinion hasn't proven effective in dissuading President Obama from his agenda before).
I hope to be leaving in two weeks actually. And the same goes for here. I know quite a few people, either active or retired military, LEO's and plenty of civvies’ that own firearms. They aren't the ones I'm worried about. 
