To debate the semantics of the practicality, danger, or aesthetics of assault weapons over other weapons, is a trap to rationalize an attack on our freedoms. But when a liberty comes under attack, especially one so controversial as gun control, it is easy to allow it to wane to some degree. But every step back from liberty is a step in the wrong direction. Every usurpation of our rights, no matter how small, is a step in the direction of tyranny.