Somethings disconnected here...
If you actually want to be taken seriously, it makes far more rhetorical sense to base your arguments on the issue at hand. You should argue against bans on bayonet lugs (for instance) by pointing out that such a ban is silly and will accomplish nothing, not by arguing that a ban on lugs today will lead to a ban on all rifles tomorrow. You may well be right, but being right doesn't make it the smart thing to say.
I dont think any of us are proposing trying to win a arguement on the grounds of a "slippery slope". Yes we know the slope is slippery but the ground we can reasonably show to anyone is something akin to the "Food Modernization and Safety Act", doesnt sound bad on the surface and all that.
The point is instead of our representatives limiting themselves to creating new laws concerning commercial food or re writing old laws that are less revelant today our representatives on the whole decided no american can produced home canned goods ect (this is only for illustration Im not arguing the point about food safety) in a safe manner and so we are all forbidden by law to do so without a license.
It is this same wrong headed thinking that is erroding all of our natural and civil rights. At what point does someone in our legislative system stand up and say hey what freedoms are left, is there anything left that is free and without our taint?
In this forum its 2A and related items and my question is at what point does someone wake up and smell the coffee and say wow where are the rights we should be enjoying and where are the freedoms.
The true scale of justice must in her balance not only weight the measures of law but she must weight the measures of freedom. We have become a nation of laws and not a nation of freedoms.
We must convice those that represent us that no matter what restrictions should be the very, very last thing ever done because getting back our freedom is a much longer road than voting it all away.
Honestly how is it that simply possessing a metal or plastic magazine even if it holds a million rounds is violating someone elses rights? We were guarnteed the right to bear arms not the right to be safe and protected from cradle to grave from all harm through ineffective, freedom robbing legislation.
This is not a rant and certainly not all laws are bad but we must re instill into our system that freedom must be weighed against any laws that are being passed, and it needs to be a tough test for the law.