Dem platform calls for gun reforms, but advocates pan language as timid - The Hill:
The draft language of the Democrats' 2012 platform – set for a final vote this week in Charlotte – argues that current safeguards protecting the public against gun violence are insufficient and urges "an honest and open conversation about firearms."Translation: when the Dems say they want "an honest and open conversation about firearms," what they always mean is that they talk and legislate and everyone else shuts up and goes along.
Come to think of it, this is true about most any other issue, too.