as much as that, right? and yet, silence. and now along with it, his moving away from trying to help control access to the weapons haters keep choosing. why back off background checks? back to the memo. question: do you think we should ban assault weapons? here's the answer. the left wants to create gun registries and move toward confiscating weapons and leaving law-abiding citizens vulnerable and unarmed. they know damn well that's no proposition and no proposal anywhere in congress right now. but it may explain why our president is once again slinking away from what he said. remember this? >> take the guns first, go through due process second. >> take the guns first, due process second. then this. >> i'm also very, very concerned with the second amendment, more so than most presidents would be. people don't realize we have very strong background checks right now.