i'd say i love the optimism - but looking back, they really havent given me a lot of reasons to be optimistic.
I think that's a 'forest for the trees' problem.
Think about it, lets take everything since 1980:
Bad:
banning new machine guns
parts kits rules got more strict
suing gun companies
temporary 10 year 'assault weapons' ban
restrictions on 'armor piercing' ammo
Good:
Interstate travel with guns protected
Concealed carry went from almost nonexistent to required.
Constitutional carry now in the majority of states
SC protections on firearms ownership and use, before then, there was almost no 'gun law' to study and try to use to help you, now there's tons of it.
SC ruling that no restrictions can be made on guns that can't be tied to laws present during founding, meaning what when we get around to start doing the lawsuits, pretty much all gun restrictions will be going away.
Castle doctrine
Moving guns to the public conscious, so guns can't be backdoor banned without causing major outrage and response.
Rise of political action groups that *will* actually sue to protect our rights, unlike the NRA in previous decades.
I think we've had win after win, personally.