Yet those with vested, moneyed interests in preserving the status quo have fought tooth-and-nail to ensure that even small, common-sense adjustments to our gun laws are never made. Propaganda is used to frighten sportsmen into thinking that if assault rifles are regulated, it will be only a matter of time before hunting rifles are taken from law-abiding citizens.

XREF: Connects to modern discourse on gun control lobbying and the slippery-slope fallacy in political rhetoric.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 107