HR 45 was DOA, has been since day one, and is a distraction to real threats to the 2A.
You talk about “a distraction to real threats”! Why have we arrived to this point to even have to defend our constitutional rights?
The vast majority of the conservatives in America do not recognize their real power and their real weapons as well as their principle points of vulnerability. It is amazing that the ones taking us very quickly to a socialistic dictatorship understand and recognize better than the God-loving people the most powerful weapons that they have been able to take away from us as well as our vulnerable points. “For THE SONS OF THIS WORLD ARE WISER in their own generation than the sons of light” (Lk 16:8). Take a look at the history in the last 200 years. What were the main targets they took out before the dictators were able to come to power? If you can DESTROY THE FAMILY, there will be NO VIABLE RESISTANCE LEFT to these ruthless, Godless and shrewd people to render us totally their slaves. “But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage” (Gal 2:4). Just about all the participants at the tea parties do not realize that the horse is already out of the barn!
So many fathers of our families today have a beer in one hand and Playboy in the other. So they are not interested in politics, eternity or God, or as Chesterton wrote “eternal vigilance”; they are happy and consumed in their pleasures today. The good abandoned mothers, who have tried to be both the mother and the father to her children, have not been able to adequately substitute for the unique God-given essential role of the father of her children. “DON’T WORRY; BE HAPPY; NO ONE GOES TO HELL ANYMORE; TOMORROW WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF!” So the great majority are happy on the sidelines. There are fewer and fewer today who are willing to train and sweat so as to play on the field. And most of those who try to play on the field do not realize their greatest weapons in this great “cosmic struggle”.
If we do not wake up and realize the “real threats” and the real fundamental solutions, we will be condemned to not dust off and use our heavy artillery and to continue to put Band-Aids on the dying body until it is dead.
The Truth Shall Set You Free (Jn 8:32)!