Personally, I take the opposing view: There is no issue anywhere close in importance to being pro-gun. All other social/legal/political issues go back and forth like a pendulum, and (this is key) as long as we maintain a democracy , the pendulum with always in time swing back away from the erroneous policy toward the sensible one. Next premise: We will always maintain a democracy as long as we retain the RKBA. Therefore, all issues (economic and otherwise) will eventually meet their optimal point in a democracy, given enough time and debate (and a strong first and second amendment). Even if the first is lost, that pendulum will also swing back toward speech, with a bloody revolution if necessary. However, the only right which, if taken away, will be taken simultaneously with the means with which to restore it, is the second amendment. Once it is lost, how will we regain it? We won't - we will in essence end up like China on a NWO scale. All other social & economic issues will go back and forth, with the pendulum swinging less and less far each time, until we meet a more or less happy medium - but there can be no compromise on rkba, or you open the door for an unstoppable tyrant.
[This message has been edited by Futo Inu (edited October 12, 1999).]