I don’t want to speak for DeBurca because I can’t actually tell her views about gun control from her post.  But that’s just it, she didn’t say anything about gun control one way or the other.  She just asked a simple question - what the heck is going on with people??  I think that’s a pretty fair question regardless of where you stand on the issue. 

First, what do you mean when you say "This works for this administration" in regards to illegal gun ownership? 

Second, everyone who owns a car has to pass certain tests and restrictions, and they have to have it and the serial number registered. I don’t see the big deal about this also applying to a gun. A sane, logical member of society wouldn’t have any problem with that.

Also, I remember being terrified by the last administration, not this one. Obama has spoken positively and hasn’t used fear to get people to rally behind him. 

After September 11, 2001, Americans were bombarded with vague terrorist warnings, with color-coded “alerts,” with talk of mushroom clouds and nefarious plots to blow up bridges and tall buildings. Don’t you remember the constant fear-soaked press releases from the White House, of impending threats that generated fear—fear of terrorism, fear of more 9/11–style attacks, fear of nuclear annihilation, fear of our ports being attacked, fear of our water systems being poisoned—and, of course, fear of excessive civil liberties or cumbersome laws jeopardizing our “homeland security.” How do you think they got that US PATRIOT act passed to strip us of our rights and allowed the government to detain, wiretap and spy on American citizens without a warrant?

Just a quick quote to cement my statement; here is Dick Cheney in early January 2006, proudly defending the administration’s illegal eavesdropping program by invoking the specter of terrorism fears:

As we get farther away from September 11th, some in Washington are yielding to the temptation to downplay the ongoing threat to our country, and to back away from the business at hand….The enemy that struck on 9/11 is weakened and fractured, yet it is still lethal and trying to hit us again. Either we are serious about fighting this war or we are not. And as long as George W. Bush is President of the United States, we are serious—and we will not let down our guard.

Cheney never once addresses the fact that the administration had full leeway to eavesdrop on terrorists without breaking the law. He ignores that fact because he is not making a rational argument. He is attempting to play on the fears of Americans to justify their violations of law.