Reply #7: If they can get the MSM hyperventilating about "OMG teh gunz!!"

[benEzra]

then they effectively change the subject from health care reform to gun issues, which is undoubtedly the intent.

Look at how the publicity stunt with the guy carrying the unloaded rifle at a staged-for-the-cameras "protest" a few months ago overshadowed coverage of the particulars of the health care debate for weeks, even here on DU.