Everyone here should review the history of the enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (AKA "Safe Streets and Crime Control Bill").

The opposition's tactics haven't changed, and we need to remember what worked and what didn't in our defense.

While written with a somewhat "left-bent-pen", this treatise is fairly accurate.

Gun Control Act of 1968 Study Guide & Homework Help - eNotes.com

At that time the NRA membership was only 900,000 and the US Population was 201,000,000. Today we have more than 4,300,000 NRA members against a population that may be as much as 313,000,000. Let's swell the ranks to 10,000,000.

There is strength in these numbers...We CAN push them back.

Drew