citizenguardian
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I can't improve on the succinct, lucid, and persuasive posts of 416Rigby and others. Let me just add my voice, then.
I mean no disrespect to those who disagree, but it's hard for me to understand why so many informed, committed, and active gunowners, on this forum and off it, do not seem to appreciate the difference between winning and losing in November. The difference between Al Gore-- Al Gore!-- in the White House for four years as opposed to out of it, the difference between a Democratic House and a Republican House, doesn't move you to stand behind NRA?
As so many others have said, the NRA is despised by enemies of the rights of ordinary people because it is _feared_. It's feared because it's effective. It's that simple.
It's the reason we're not living in Great f****** Britain right now. Today.
Is there no difference, to your mind, between having CCW and not, between having some bull**** "license" or not, between being able to buy ammunition without a 300-day waiting period or not, between having no upper limits on total gun ownership or not, or between confiscation or not??!!
Pardon the apparent hyperbole, but things are exactly this stark. Now. These are the differences that the NRA has made, and can continue to make. And no one else can, with or without our support.
There's not a half-awake gunowner in the rest of the world who wouldn't give his eyeteeth to have our problems with NRA.
I can understand the complaints about the compromises, I can understand the complaints about leadership-- but haven't you heard of playing the hand you're dealt? This is politics, it's deadly serious, and it's time to buck up and fight with the best we've got. That's called a strategy for WINNING-- and is there someone here who doesn't want that, to WIN??
I have to agree with the remarks of some others: it's as if many are _looking_ for reasons to lose, things to complain about, while the enemy overruns our squabbling lines. I respect the various people who post on this forum, whatever their views, because they are for the most part informed, and reasonable. But to my mind the time to rest, the time to criticize internally, is when the fight is _over_, i.e., mid-November, not in the middle of it, i.e., now.
I mean no disrespect to those who disagree, but it's hard for me to understand why so many informed, committed, and active gunowners, on this forum and off it, do not seem to appreciate the difference between winning and losing in November. The difference between Al Gore-- Al Gore!-- in the White House for four years as opposed to out of it, the difference between a Democratic House and a Republican House, doesn't move you to stand behind NRA?
As so many others have said, the NRA is despised by enemies of the rights of ordinary people because it is _feared_. It's feared because it's effective. It's that simple.
It's the reason we're not living in Great f****** Britain right now. Today.
Is there no difference, to your mind, between having CCW and not, between having some bull**** "license" or not, between being able to buy ammunition without a 300-day waiting period or not, between having no upper limits on total gun ownership or not, or between confiscation or not??!!
Pardon the apparent hyperbole, but things are exactly this stark. Now. These are the differences that the NRA has made, and can continue to make. And no one else can, with or without our support.
There's not a half-awake gunowner in the rest of the world who wouldn't give his eyeteeth to have our problems with NRA.
I can understand the complaints about the compromises, I can understand the complaints about leadership-- but haven't you heard of playing the hand you're dealt? This is politics, it's deadly serious, and it's time to buck up and fight with the best we've got. That's called a strategy for WINNING-- and is there someone here who doesn't want that, to WIN??
I have to agree with the remarks of some others: it's as if many are _looking_ for reasons to lose, things to complain about, while the enemy overruns our squabbling lines. I respect the various people who post on this forum, whatever their views, because they are for the most part informed, and reasonable. But to my mind the time to rest, the time to criticize internally, is when the fight is _over_, i.e., mid-November, not in the middle of it, i.e., now.