The only public response Obama and his cronies are paying attention to are the opinions that only mirror his. All other opinions are useless. Like I've said before we the people have voted these monsters in, and we can't expect to change what they are, or their ideas after the voting is over. I figure they are going to hear enough responses for the elimination of semi-auto rifles, and other goodies from the ones that voted them in, that its going to happen. We can't vote in Marxists that are wishful to disarm citizens, then expect them to not trample on our 2nd Amendment rights, or any others for that matter.
Our government has succeeded in making enough people ignorant of our history, what their rights are, and the importance of them. You kind of know the ignorance runs deep when you hear fellow gun owners say things like "what does anyone need an assault rifle for". Or "you can't hunt with them anyway". We can send all the e-mails, and sign all the pititions we can gather up, but I don't think its going to make any difference at all. We will not fail by not yelling, kicking, and screaming enough. The failure happened at the voting booth.