No. The NRA is there to negotiate for us.
I take it you are not a member, nor a supporter of NRA.
Well I happen to be a Life Member of the NRA - - - but I also support organizations which take a much stronger stand such a Gun Owners of America. gunowners.org - - - Too many times the NRA has compromised on things that made absolutely
no difference in the stated anti crime goals of the antis (such as external cosmetic features on a rifle.) They are the biggest organization out there, and thats why I am a member. But they arent the only game in town; and IMO they arent the best game in town.
I don't think it inevitable
at all that anti gun legislation will be passed. Some seem to have fallen over - before the other side has even showed up on the field of battle. The other side has won the psych war over some people. As for what Feinstein has proposed - - - so what ? She has always been a hardcore anti.
All this is an emotional response, and many have seemed to fall for it. The odds of being killed by lightening are greater than being involved in a mass shooting. (And youre much more likely to be hit by lightening and survive. Just look up the stats for the number of people struck and the number killed by lightening each year in the US and around the world. Compare that number to those that are victims of mass attacks. As an everyday comparison,
about 115 people are killed every day in the U.S. by auto accidents.)
You can bet that your 'lawmakers' will sell you out in a heartbeat if in their interests. We need to let them know we won't tolerate this. Write to them and let them know that if they cave on anti gun legislation, you will work to get them booted from office in the next election. They lose the cushy job, fat pension & benefits, and the opportunity to make big money doing insider trading. (Though some may sell you out, and then choose not to run again anyway.) Respectfully listen to other people, but then let them know the facts - how this is being
hyped out of proportion to any real 'threat'.
Please, always keep in mind the real agenda. . . disarming all American citizens. It is the destruction of the 2nd Amendment. They use the tactics of the Fabian Socialists - - - a gradual and steady attack over time. Slowly turning up the heat till the frog is boiled in the pot. - - - If you speak to many people in Great Britain, they will tell you that they have gun rights. They have the right to own certain kinds of guns, for certain limited purposes, and in certain very limited ways - - - all subject to government registration and approval. They had no one 200 years ago who insisted that the Bill of Rights be amended to the US Constitution. They have no 2nd Amendment, and we may be fooled into tossing ours away too.
Also, remember the vaccine scare a few years back ? They said that we'd all keel over if we didnt take the flu shot. There was talk that people might even be forced to take it, as a matter of national health and 'security'.
All that was a total lie.
And people refused to take the flu shot.
They ended up trying to pawn it off on people overseas, and they didnt want the stuff either. Afterwards most of the shots were just dumped. Another in a long list of frauds.
It'll be up to the American gunowner as to what will come of this.
What next ? If we hear from some politician/bureaucrat that all buildings and people must be registered so that 'the government' may take measures to 'protect us' from lightening strikes in the name of 'national security', will Americans go along with that too ?
We used to be "the land of the free, home of the brave" and people who could
think.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety." - Benjamen Franklin
