The media has stirred the non-shooting public up in a panic so of course they are reacting emotionally. When that happens, trying to respond logically just doesn't work -- the best you can do is roll along with them like a calming force while you slow down and smooth down the "action" the anti-gunners demand while appearing to go in their direction. Reacting counter-emotionally with talk about Ruby Ridge is even worse because you just feed the stereotype being pushed by the gun grabbers in the liberal media and feed the hysteria of those in the middle.

If you got another Eric Holder in office (or, God forbid, the original again), you wouldn't see it as a series of events, he'd work like Julius Caesar in Belgium and take the hotspots of resistance down one by one. We've already seen how little respect Holder has for the Constitution or federal code. We would NOT be better in any way, much less in perspective of 2A rights, under HRC because the media forces that you've seen the past month would be pushing the gun grabbing message completely rather than having 90% of their attention devoted to shrilly attacking Trump with anything they can lay their hands on.

For that matter, the liberal forces would probably drop the anti-sexual harassment campaign lest it be used against HRC and Billy Boy or Uncle Joe. IMO the reason the campaign has taken off the way it did was the liberals thought it would be another weapon they could use to take down Trump. For some reason, they didn't realize that people who voted for Trump already realize he has proclivities toward beautiful women and Trump's indiscretions -- unlike Billy Boy's or Uncle Joe's -- have been with willing partners. So all the energy you're seeing in that effort would be redirected and added to the gun-grabbing movement.

IMO, let the ATF go this route and deflate the gun-grabbers. In the meantime, ready the legal challenges through 2AF and NRA-PVC so you can hit the courts as soon as ATF issues a final ruling and get a less-liberal court rule that the ATF went beyond its authorities. By the time all of that plays out, the gun-grabbers will have worked themselves into and through a frenzy then be tuckered out like a 4 year old throwing a tantrum because you won't let him have ice cream before dinner.