Instead of squawking that "the NRA needs to do something" it might be helpful to think of and specify what pro-active ideas you would have them push.
In the past, they have been very instrumental in passing anti-crime and safety legislation. Things like firearms specifications tacked onto crimes, minimum sentencing with firearms used in crime, and other "real" crime bills. Also gunowner protections from unreasonable local laws about transport and possession.
It funny too that someone mentions co-opting bills to control them. When the NRA has been faced in the past with losing on an issue, they HAVE co-opted and assisted in re-writing it to reduce the damage from it, for which they have suffered the wrath of their own supporters. "Armor piercing bullets" and NICS are too things that immediately come to mind.
So instead of asking the NRA to push gun control, especially when gun control is losing, let's thing of some pro-gun issues, anti-crime issues, or safety issues we would like them to push.
One idea I have is that all elementary schools should update their "fire prevention" education to "safety services education" and after the real live fireman tell them all about fire prevention, and "stop, drop, and roll", they then have a real live policeman explain how to behave in a police encounter or traffic stop, with something like "freeze, hands up, wait for instruction". This should be a bi-partisan no-brainer. This is not just a "talk that black fathers need to have with their sons". It is a concept lost on today's generation.
In the past, they have been very instrumental in passing anti-crime and safety legislation. Things like firearms specifications tacked onto crimes, minimum sentencing with firearms used in crime, and other "real" crime bills. Also gunowner protections from unreasonable local laws about transport and possession.
It funny too that someone mentions co-opting bills to control them. When the NRA has been faced in the past with losing on an issue, they HAVE co-opted and assisted in re-writing it to reduce the damage from it, for which they have suffered the wrath of their own supporters. "Armor piercing bullets" and NICS are too things that immediately come to mind.
So instead of asking the NRA to push gun control, especially when gun control is losing, let's thing of some pro-gun issues, anti-crime issues, or safety issues we would like them to push.
One idea I have is that all elementary schools should update their "fire prevention" education to "safety services education" and after the real live fireman tell them all about fire prevention, and "stop, drop, and roll", they then have a real live policeman explain how to behave in a police encounter or traffic stop, with something like "freeze, hands up, wait for instruction". This should be a bi-partisan no-brainer. This is not just a "talk that black fathers need to have with their sons". It is a concept lost on today's generation.