I've lifted this from one of my other favorite resources for defending our Constitution and thought y'all would enjoy seeing the lefties choking on our efforts. For those of you who wonder if our activism does any good, read this piece and believe it. For those of us who have been active in defending the Second Amendment, we can take great pride and satisfaction. And, whether you like the NRA or not, you have to give credit where credit is due. The NRA is the 900 pound gorilla in D.C. and the lefties know it. Proof is below. 
Don
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To All,
MSNBC.com is posting a piece by Howard Fineman on the prospects of new gun control laws passing in the Democrat Congress in the aftermath of the VA Tech Shooting.
The title of his article may say it all-
"...Gun Control? Don't Hold Your Breath..."
In the article Fineman exhibits the normal urban snobbery towards armed self-determination (as if there were sufficient police numbers with the ability to see into the future out there) and rural tradition. But his questioning of various Dem staffers and other Liberal Fellow Travellers leads Fineman to the conclusion that the Dems currently do not want to ride into the Valley of Electoral Death by going for gun control gold.
For example, after speaking off the record with "top Democratic strategists" on the idea of new gun control proposals, Fineman reports that the "consensus" response was that "...taking on gun control as a defining issue is a bad- very bad- idea...".
And after speaking with "top leaders and aides of the Democratic establishment on the Hill", the uniform response apparently was "...are you kidding?..."
And, finally, in consulting that Delphic Oracle of Politics, Larry Sabato, Fineman was advised that Democrat pols from Virginia (Jim Webb, for example) are taking the following position: "...The prospects of new (gun control) legislation are zero, absolutely zero...".
Now, firearms activists remember that we have yet to grit our teeth and bear the media pressure as the coverage on the VA Tech shooting transitions to each and every funeral of the victims over the next few days. But given current anecdotes of how mental health privacy rules may have tied the school's and law enforcement's hands in properly dealing with Cho before he murdered, it may just be that the worst we are going to see from a legislative standpoint is one attempt to ban high capacity magazines and another attempt to "modernize" public health records at the state level so that they can be accessible by a NICS check.
If this becomes the end "game", then one can say that such a state of affairs can be directly related to all the hard won gains made by NRA staff and members since the 1968 Gun Control Act (well, one does have to start somewhere, and one must give credit for all the original startup efforts by ILA back before this poster decided to get off his tucchus and do something back in 1994). In other words, Fineman won't get his "paradigm shift" towards a society of disarmed taxpayers because firearms activists have laid down the Mother of All Paradigms when it comes to the Right To Keep and Bear Arms.
And if you do not think that this reticence for new gun controls will have any bearing on future en banc or SCOTUS reviews of Parker, then I may just have some New Jersey swampland that I might just be able to let go for a great price.....
Link at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18161645/site/newsweek/
Don
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To All,
MSNBC.com is posting a piece by Howard Fineman on the prospects of new gun control laws passing in the Democrat Congress in the aftermath of the VA Tech Shooting.
The title of his article may say it all-
"...Gun Control? Don't Hold Your Breath..."
In the article Fineman exhibits the normal urban snobbery towards armed self-determination (as if there were sufficient police numbers with the ability to see into the future out there) and rural tradition. But his questioning of various Dem staffers and other Liberal Fellow Travellers leads Fineman to the conclusion that the Dems currently do not want to ride into the Valley of Electoral Death by going for gun control gold.
For example, after speaking off the record with "top Democratic strategists" on the idea of new gun control proposals, Fineman reports that the "consensus" response was that "...taking on gun control as a defining issue is a bad- very bad- idea...".
And after speaking with "top leaders and aides of the Democratic establishment on the Hill", the uniform response apparently was "...are you kidding?..."
And, finally, in consulting that Delphic Oracle of Politics, Larry Sabato, Fineman was advised that Democrat pols from Virginia (Jim Webb, for example) are taking the following position: "...The prospects of new (gun control) legislation are zero, absolutely zero...".
Now, firearms activists remember that we have yet to grit our teeth and bear the media pressure as the coverage on the VA Tech shooting transitions to each and every funeral of the victims over the next few days. But given current anecdotes of how mental health privacy rules may have tied the school's and law enforcement's hands in properly dealing with Cho before he murdered, it may just be that the worst we are going to see from a legislative standpoint is one attempt to ban high capacity magazines and another attempt to "modernize" public health records at the state level so that they can be accessible by a NICS check.
If this becomes the end "game", then one can say that such a state of affairs can be directly related to all the hard won gains made by NRA staff and members since the 1968 Gun Control Act (well, one does have to start somewhere, and one must give credit for all the original startup efforts by ILA back before this poster decided to get off his tucchus and do something back in 1994). In other words, Fineman won't get his "paradigm shift" towards a society of disarmed taxpayers because firearms activists have laid down the Mother of All Paradigms when it comes to the Right To Keep and Bear Arms.
And if you do not think that this reticence for new gun controls will have any bearing on future en banc or SCOTUS reviews of Parker, then I may just have some New Jersey swampland that I might just be able to let go for a great price.....
Link at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18161645/site/newsweek/