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In my ignorance I cannot understand, in light of all the idiotic shootings in the last years, some gun owners just do not get it?
How many millions of us law abiding owners taking the proverbial "ostrich stance"?
"Not in the N.R.A."
"Not Voters or Activists"
"They Won't Take Hunter's Guns, Only Assault Weapons and Saturday Night Specials"
In my area of Northern Wi. we have many hunters, including residents and tourists equipped with all of today's "de riguier"
equipment, except it seems for many: common sense "Our Gun Ownership Rights are On The Line" and it will take "ALL" of us acting cohesively to save them!
Mike. B.

I couldn't agree with the above post more. All of us HAVE to join the NRA. We HAVE to contact our State and Federal representatives on a regular basis and let them know we're against additional firearms legislation. Contacting them is easier than ever today as they all have online sites and email.
There is legislation already introduced in the House to re-instate the Assault Weapons Ban and this bill is even more stringent that the expired ban. It includes certain type of shotguns and semiautomatic rifles in addition to the Assault Rifle lookalikes in the last ban.
Jim

Interesting to see the divide on gun ownership on two sides of the pond. As I understand it , most members of the NRA are in the 'home protection' and 'self defence'category of supporters with those useing firearms for hunting in a minority (at least that is what Kane Robinson told me a couple of years back).

Here the majority of those in the shooter and firearms pressure groups are hunters and collectors. I bet if you asked all the owners of firearms in the UK if they thought it would be a good idea to allow citizens to pack a handgun or keep an assault rifle at home, an overwhealming majority would say 'No'.

We have been stiffed, don't get me wrong! Stupid legislators taking target pistols away from licenced owners and ignoring the fact that ilegal use of handguns has gone up, not down, but I find it a pity that there is no common sense involved in gun legislation between the side who believe we are all safer if everyone is packing and those who believe all guns are evil and that they alone are responsible for all the bad that people do to one another.

I see little chance of this polarisation changing, which is a pity, I think.

No. There are other valid choices in defending the RKBA, and that is as it should be in a pluralistic society. Saying we all have to march in step smacks of Big Brother thinking.

Work to protect our Second Amendment rights any way you want to, any way you can. Joining an RKBA organization is fine, and there are several good ones from which to choose. But please, contribute with more than your checkbook. Spend some time teaching kids to shoot, testifying at hearings, writing letters, talking to politicians, whatever. Do something!

Just to hold what we've got, jack's dead-on.

I thought every one would get the drift. We ALL need to do more in "whatever venues we choose." As long as they all work cohesively as catalysts towards a common bond to solidify our
ranks and present an expanding and UNIFIED defense

Nothing has the clout of the NRA...it is the big stick that all antis fear the most.
I hope all here are members.

Lowell
You and I once stand totally united!
Whatever other venues one chooses, choose the N.R.A. +
As Lowell said, we may squabble amongst ourselves, we may not agree with all the N.R.A."s stances, but, NO ONE ELSE has the power/#s to defend our rights as they do!
If we want to keep any of our assault weapons(known to "them" potentially as a sawed off Parker or H&H).GOD NO!
Whatever else you do join the N.R.A. and urge all your cohorts to do the same!
Right Lowell?
Mike B.

Let's see Small Bore. There was a time in your country when you could carry a concealed weapon and the crime rate was exstremely low. I believe that time was just prior to WW1. Your politicians chipped away at your rights and now you find yourself with a much higher crime rate. There is no experiment or new ground to cover with allowing citezens to carry a concealed handgun. It was so in our country virtually everywhere prior to WW2. Our government started to chip away at our rights also but recently we are starting to gain concealed carry back and today about half of the states have concealed carry. I read myself the predictions of the anti gun and self defence newspapers that we are going back to the wild west days and that there would be carnage in the streets. When concealed carry was passed in these states the end result was a lower crime rate not a higher crime rate. The antis hate these statistics because they fly in the face of their lies that they been pumping out for years. Carrying a hand gun is a big responsability and a big hassle. Many permit holders I know carry only when they feel it is necessary and not all the time. I've been an NRA member before I owned my first gun. The NRA is the gunowners union. The collective voice is heard in politics and they get results. Of course if you are a gun owner that thinks that gun ownership is a privilege and not a right you would probably believe the anti gun crap pumped out by the news media. The media distorts all the major gun issues to try and paint the NRA as exstreme. The COP killer bullet issue comes to mind. They simply say that the NRA opposed the cop killer bullet bill. Of course they did because as writen it would have outlawed all your popular deer hunting calibers. That is why I am a member. I pay them to keep an eye on the tricky politicians that are continually trying to bilk me out of my rights. Unfortanately I have to go to work every day and I can't do that job myself. One very important thing to remember about gun control is that it has nothing to do with crime or guns and everything to do with control. Crime is only the exscuse to sell gun control to you and the public at large. Hitler got the gun control he wanted by using crime as an exscuse. I'm so very gratefull and see a little hope with Bush's 2 appointments to the Supreme Court of strict constitutionalists. Hopefully when the Demacrats win the white house next election the American public will see the Freak show that they put in power and will sicken them for years to come.

The NRA is the only game in town.(with the organization and political muscle). The wannabes don't even come close. They serve mainly to divide gun owners who do care enough to dig into their pockets to support the fight, while accomplishing little, if anything for our cause. Worst of all are the freeloaders who don't support any of the gun groups, usually justifying their apathy with some nonsense like "I don't like the NRA. They keep sending me solicitations for money". BULLCRAP! If you don't want to, or can't afford to contribute anything beyond your NRA dues, just throw the solicitations in the trash. We all throw unwanted junk mail in the trash every day. We(the NRA) need all the people in our numbers we can get. The US has a reported 80,000,000 gun owners. 4,000,000 of them are NRA members. 5% of the gunowners are carrying the load in the fight to keep our guns. The other 95% are do-nothing freeloaders. Can you even imagine how Congress would treat the NRA if our membership was 40,000,000???? Half of the gun owners? They'd call NRA Hq. every morning to see what they could do for us today. Even the Democrats would love us!