Posted on 01/25/2013 6:30:08 AM PST by pabianice
The American gun owning public is being duped again, just like we were duped the two weeks before the election when we were convinced that Romney was ahead by several percentage points. The media, including our “friends” at Fox, Drudge, and other “conservative” outlets, are attempting to sell us the concept that the “assault weapon ban” legislation can’t pass, and this is a lie. We are told that Bill Clinton sternly warned his party that they will be punished in the mid-terms, and that the NRA is “too powerful” for any real legislation to make it through congress. This is also a lie. Behind our backs, the political machine is crafting public opinion in what have become the majority voting blocks to convince national and state legislators that they are safe for the next election… and they are safe. American gun owners didn’t show up in force for the last election, and we are not feared as a voting block any longer. Don’t be a fool and believe it when they tell us we can’t lose. We are going to get beaten again if we don’t act. And this time it isn’t a slippery slope. This time they are going to outlaw an entire class of guns with no loopholes.
If you are on the GunsAmerica email list, or you are clicking in from the website, you are probably a gun owner of some type (or you are desperately trying to buy your first gun before they ban them), and you may feel that we are “preaching to the choir.” But there is also a 90% chance that YOU HAVE NOT CONTACTED YOUR LEGISLATORS to let them know that you are strongly against any kind of weapon ban, or any increase in our national or state gun laws whatsoever.
You are silent, because you think it is someone else’s job. But it is your job, and you have to make yourself be heard. Call and email your legislators today.
The NRA came into this fight almost a month late and their response has been anything but well received. Even though President Obama’s kids are guarded by armed guards in schools, and even though Dianne Feinstein actually possesses one of San Francisco’s few concealed carry permits, the very sane suggestions of the NRA have fallen on mostly deaf ears. The media , including Fox, has beat up Wayne Lapierre and is inflating every shooting incident in the country right now, trying to keep the gun control energy as high as possible, so that the legislators will have the courage to vote against the wishes of the majority of their constituents. The only way they can do this is their constituents, meaning YOU, remain silent.
You must call and write your legislators today. Let them know that you know who they are. You know their name, and you will remember how they voted come election day. Don’t just use the web form, and don’t just call their Washington, DC numbers. Call their local numbers and tell their staffers that you and ever gun owner you know will be watching them, and funding their opponents if they vote for this ineffective and stupid legislation. At some point you have to take action, and you have to go that extra step, and now is the time.
Most gun owners, like most of America, are ignorant to world history. Most people don’t know that Kristallnacht, the famous “night of broken glass” in Germany in 1939, was actually a gun roundup. It is considered the beginning of the Holocaust, but what most people leave out is that Hitler published sweeping gun confiscation legislation on November 11, 1938, the day after the famous Nazi rioting. You will find the same gun confiscations in the pages of the dictatorial and murderous takeovers of China, Cambodia, Ukraine and throughout history. The first thing every government spinning out of control does is register the guns. Then they round up the guns. Then they declare martial law, putting the military in charge. Do you feel like America has been heading in the right direction? Do you wonder why “prepping” has become more popular than NASCAR? The government knows that America is a powder keg waiting to pop, and they are trying to use a manufactured crisis to take away your guns.
In President Obama’s speech, which took place right in the middle of SHOT Show of course, he played to “law abiding gun owners,” specifically calling out to our petition that we all signed at the beginning of this crisis. The President actually had the nerve to say that this wasn’t about politics and the tactics of a dictatorial regime, despite the fact that rifles, including AR-15 and other magazine fed rifles, are only used in a tiny percentage of gun violence. He even admitted this during the debates. He was appealing to middle class casual gun owners and hunters. They want us to turn on ourselves. They want the old hunting crowd to say “I don’t know why anyone would need a gun like that,” or “why would you need a magazine with more than 7 rounds.” They want the Ipad generation to fall into lockstep with their ideals, and for the old hunting crowd to back them up. We saw it at SHOT Show. Hunters are historically traitors to the 2nd Amendment, and this will be no different.
The people who outvoted us this past November don’t believe in the Constitution. The Ipad generation believes what they see on TV. While all those TV personalities hire armed guards and carry guns themselves to protect their own life and property, they are building public opinion against our 2nd Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms. The Ipad generation doesn’t understand the nature of mankind, and the implicit design of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Holocaust was 60 years ago, not 600 years ago YOU TOUCHSCREEN ADDICTED IDIOTS. This isn’t about President Obama. It isn’t about what happens next month or next year. The 2nd Amendment must be preserved if our freedom is to be preserved. If we give anything today it will be the next thing we give at the next crisis, then the next thing we give at the next crisis, until we are all defending ourselves with airguns like they do in European Union today. Please contact your legislators today
There is a reason we don't contact them. THEY NEVER REPSOND. NEVER!
They ignore us and cave on almost every issue. They are worthless in my opinion.
I think the pressure has to be kept up in the house.
I SUSPECT this is all a dog and pony show and Boehner has sold out the US to give them the long term record keeping (aka registration) and capacity limits.
DC is out of touch with citizens and is only listening to the NYC media.
Why do we keep calling them weapons? They are guns until they are aimed at someone. Then it is a weapon. Maybe using the right terminology will change some peoples idea of a gun.
I sent email to Saxby Chambliss Johnny Isakson and rep Paul Broun requesting a no vote on the above bills...I don’t know if it will do any good or not
The girly men of FNF this morning were agast at all those scarry guns. The dark haired toupe looking person especially.
Well that's the goal, now, isn't it (that's a rhetorical question).
Go to www.ruger.com. Ruger set up an email site. They take your address info and generate an email that goes to every local, state, Congress rep and the POTUS against new gun laws. Last I saw the site had sent up to 740,000 emails. The site is a little under 3 weeks old. Get on it and send the emails. Even the NY owners need to do that so the Dem reps from rural areas understand the anger at them. Many state reps and Congress are counting responses before they decide to act.
We've heard time and time again that representatives getting voluminous feedback from their constituents can be made to change their minds on topics.
It does good - but don't stop at just one letter. Mail the same latter every week until this is over (for this session)!
I agree with the author that this legislation can pass.
My trio of congressional losers is John F’n Kerry (”I served in Vietnam”), Liz “Liawatha” Warren, and Jim “Bagman” McGovern. They remain such great champions of the 2nd Amendment. /S
Universal check = universal registration.
Then universal registration => universal confiscation => universal sequestration (optional step) => universal annihilation.
The final solution.
Bookmarked.
we also have to pressure the media, ESPECCIALLY ADVERTISERS.
the MSM is not running silent to pass this.
It is the inside the beltway country club that we have to address.
The USA is being played for fools. The politicials want this. The politicians HATE the first amendemnt and the second amendment. Pelosi would ban the third if he socialists had power.
which is absolutely illegal per the firearm owners protection act of 1986. Blatant violation of federal law equals impeachable offense.
Does anyone (who perhaps uses it) know how long the current NICS system retains a record of the check - or if at all?
Time to start preparing for 2014 from NOW.
Primary anyone who votes for this.
But as in 1984 war “against evil” never ends. The jackbooted thug will be grinding new enemies into the pavement.
So, you on the left, take note. You are next.
We have....we have, believe me. I get frustrated by getting all these emails from companies and organizations that have bought my name, email and phone number from a number of the online gun/ammo/accessory retailers with whom I do a lot of business.
Nearly all are blurbs about things I’ve seen here previously, many are a little too alarmist. ALL end with pleas for money.
Finally, I don’t like unsigned editorials even though I agree with a lot of the points made, even though they are just preaching to the choir who wrote the sermon for them.
“You are silent, because you think it is someone else’s job.”
No, I think most gun owners are silent because they know that yelling and screaming about it won’t change anything at this point. It didn’t stop Obamacare, and it probably won’t stop whatever gun control crap they want to pass. The ballot box, jury box, and the soap box have failed, so why should we continue to behave as if we live in a functioning republic?
not is they repeal that law with a new law.
it is a mere law.
feinstien made it clear, politicians agree with her, they R and D want to abolis ALL private ownership over time. This is just a slow boil version of the law.
Hunting is going to be sniper issues. This is the divide and conquer strategy. Hunters can be buffoons who “don’t get it”. The foolishly think they are protecting themselves by saying “nobody needs” like good little party members.
For the good of the party they will be ordered to give up their “hobby” in the name of safety. .... for the childrens.
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