Gun lobby ?

Here it is, 2009 and we have a new president and a largely sympathetic congress. This whole new bunch of beurocrats are supposedly progressive and could take on the gun lobby but are afraid to do so citing past defeats of mega-proportions after doing battle with the N.R.A. and the like. Where are the folks that support getting assault rifles, automatic weapons and the like off the streets? Where the hell is the " People who don't want to get shot" Lobby ? There must be literally millions fo folks who would like to live thier lives without the fear of some insane person or criminal spraying them with bullets while they are just walking down the sidewalk. All of these folks saying that they need thier guns for hunting need not fear, they can keep hunting rifles , handguns, reloading equipment, whatever. None of these hunters need an AK-47, Uzi or any of these murder-specific firearms. Having such weapons in a neighborhood is pretty much saying to your neighbors : " I don't trust you, I don't want to trust you and I would just as soon gun your ass down before I give up my 20-shot clips". It's pretty obvious what happens when you get a totally unregulated supply of automatic firearms to a community.......you get Mexico, Richmond, Tons of places in the Moiddle East.....too many to name. A stance on keeping these assault weapons legal is undefensable and downright inhuman.