I mostly lurk on this board, I do post on shhoters now and again. I posted the folling on shooters/handgun and just wanted to air it out here too. It's kinda long, sorry:
I caught Hardball tonight while flipping through the channels. It was obviously recorded a day or two ago after the latest school shooting in Georgia. I tuned in to see if it was going to be a feeding frenzy or what. I'll skip most of the details but they did have Wayne LaPierre from the NRA on and gave him as much time to talk as the other people did, so that was good. One thing that came up was the proper storage of firearms and this is the only thing that Wayne stumbled on a bit. He stumbled because he was trying to be evasive about the answer. And I think the reason he was trying to be evasive about the answer is because of us...us being the NRA members. We are not 100% unified. Some people support laws promoting more strict gun storage. Some people support at least promoting safer gun storage publicly even though we do not agree with laws requiring it. Some people think that they should be able to have loaded guns laying all over the house, even if they are not home. And all of these people are part of the NRA so the NRA gets its hands tied on issues like this because there is no way to answer the question in a way that will please all of its members. (new paragraph) Look at how much of a ruckus we have caused over the whole K-Mart/Rosie deal. Has K-Mart or Rosie repented? No, but the issues has come to the attention of the public (with a little help from Howard Stern and Magnum PI!) and we look good on this issue. Why? Well, two reasons, one is because Rosie has been kind enough to be an idiot about all of this, but also because we are all unified in this and we all agree upon our position. This, I believe, is part of the reason that HCI and the other antis are, I won't say doing better than we are, but at least are better understood than we are. You can always tell if they are going to support a bill or not. If it has anything to do with restricting guns or being a PITA for gun owners then they will support it. We know that ahead of time, and so does everyone else. We as gun owners and defenders of the 2nd amendment need to be understood and unified the same way, and we can not take the position that we oppose anything that HCI and others support. That's stupid. (I guess this is another new paragraph…sorry) Also part of the problem is the fact that most of us who are pro 2nd amendment are just regular folks who own and love guns and want to keep that right and pass it on to our children. We are not the professional politicians and media types like our adversaries. What do we do to fix all this and save things before we end up like England? I don't know for sure, I'm open to suggestions, but just like in any other war there is a lot to be said for unification of people and allies. Compare Vietnam to the Gulf war. They are not the same, that is for sure, but one of the things I remember so many people back here saying was that they wanted to make sure that the men and women over there knew that they had the unquestionable support from all of us back home, unlike Vietnam where people were drafted, sent off to the other side of the world to get shot at, and if they return home then they have the opportunity to be spit on by someone for doing all that…..so what do we do?
I caught Hardball tonight while flipping through the channels. It was obviously recorded a day or two ago after the latest school shooting in Georgia. I tuned in to see if it was going to be a feeding frenzy or what. I'll skip most of the details but they did have Wayne LaPierre from the NRA on and gave him as much time to talk as the other people did, so that was good. One thing that came up was the proper storage of firearms and this is the only thing that Wayne stumbled on a bit. He stumbled because he was trying to be evasive about the answer. And I think the reason he was trying to be evasive about the answer is because of us...us being the NRA members. We are not 100% unified. Some people support laws promoting more strict gun storage. Some people support at least promoting safer gun storage publicly even though we do not agree with laws requiring it. Some people think that they should be able to have loaded guns laying all over the house, even if they are not home. And all of these people are part of the NRA so the NRA gets its hands tied on issues like this because there is no way to answer the question in a way that will please all of its members. (new paragraph) Look at how much of a ruckus we have caused over the whole K-Mart/Rosie deal. Has K-Mart or Rosie repented? No, but the issues has come to the attention of the public (with a little help from Howard Stern and Magnum PI!) and we look good on this issue. Why? Well, two reasons, one is because Rosie has been kind enough to be an idiot about all of this, but also because we are all unified in this and we all agree upon our position. This, I believe, is part of the reason that HCI and the other antis are, I won't say doing better than we are, but at least are better understood than we are. You can always tell if they are going to support a bill or not. If it has anything to do with restricting guns or being a PITA for gun owners then they will support it. We know that ahead of time, and so does everyone else. We as gun owners and defenders of the 2nd amendment need to be understood and unified the same way, and we can not take the position that we oppose anything that HCI and others support. That's stupid. (I guess this is another new paragraph…sorry) Also part of the problem is the fact that most of us who are pro 2nd amendment are just regular folks who own and love guns and want to keep that right and pass it on to our children. We are not the professional politicians and media types like our adversaries. What do we do to fix all this and save things before we end up like England? I don't know for sure, I'm open to suggestions, but just like in any other war there is a lot to be said for unification of people and allies. Compare Vietnam to the Gulf war. They are not the same, that is for sure, but one of the things I remember so many people back here saying was that they wanted to make sure that the men and women over there knew that they had the unquestionable support from all of us back home, unlike Vietnam where people were drafted, sent off to the other side of the world to get shot at, and if they return home then they have the opportunity to be spit on by someone for doing all that…..so what do we do?