Franklin Delano Roosevelt remarked, "Don't ever get the idea that things happen in Washington by accident." The Democrat party and the state controlled media have been attempting to manipulate public opinion on the issue of gun control, blatantly lying about what they call 'assault weapons.' Despite carrying out the Goebbels tactic of lying repeatedly to the public, the Obama regime was thwarted when the Senate (with the help of conscience-stricken Democrats) narrowly defeated the all out attack on the Second Amendment by leftist, secular progressive, statist Democrats, bent on destroying the Constitution and ending liberties as we have known it.