“The last thing you want to be armed with as an advocate of common sense are phrases like ‘gun control,’ which makes a government-wary public and law-abiding gun-owners uneasy — and susceptible to tendentious ‘slippery slope’ arguments about how ‘they want to take away your guns.’ In contrast, everyone but the lunatic fringe in America supports gun safety laws — such as eliminating the gun-show loophole that allows the sale of military-grade weapons without background checks, and has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans as well as Mexicans, whose drug cartels find the loophole extremely helpful.” – Drew Westen in the New York Times editorial Silencing the Guns.