I'm with you Tex But most here on these forums are all talk and no action and most are Trolls, just check there profiles out. Joining the NRA, Letters to there elected officials and a 3 hour Gun Appreciation Day (is all good) but they think that is going to be enough!! It wont be. It will not turn the tied, and anyone who didn't see this coming (playing out the way it is) is just plane foolish and you will see them cave. And they will be the first to line up at the nearest local Federal Government Gun Collection Center like the UK did to there subjects. Listen to some of these posts and you can read into them and see they are caving already.
I say this
I agree with you James.
I sent a letter via email to the NRA to say the exact same thing. They have to get to work and seek more coalitions across a wider front of shared ideas and politics. Not just expect the NRA members to cough up money at the mention of the words Obama, Fienstein, Clinton etc. while the NRA decides what they think might be best for them.
I got fussy with the NRA back when they tried to derail the Heller case. The NRA flat turned the Heller group down for support, and even tried to interfere in the case and even get it derailed , until the end. The NRA put NO MONEY in the landmark case. So the little guys fought the whole fight and won.
I am still fussy some I guess. I got called a week ago and they said " We need money ...." I said "Ok ... what are you specifically going to do?" Uhh.. Well we need money .... I said fine and I will donate but you are going to have to go do something. Not just make a splash on TV. Not just make recomendations. Not just file a suit and sit on it. Not just lobby . All that is important enough. But what I am talking about is something that makes something happen at the root level of the citizens. A lasting change. Well at least for 10 or 20 years LOL LOL!
I am not against the NRA in any way, but it made me realize yet again, that all the real work and victories are from the real grassroots. While the NRA can help, it is a machine now. The biggest issues for the NRA was disturbing their fund raising, and the possibility for a bad outcome.
100,000 new members is great. 500,000 is great. But it will not get it done against all of this. But if you can bring about a change in ideas in 10 million, now you are doing something that will make things happen.
To me that is a grassroots effort by all of us that will effect the outcomes in a positive way for all of us.
Just my 0.02.