Posted on 05/18/2006 10:44:49 AM PDT by 300magnum
(CNSNews.com) - Tens of thousands of Second Amendment supporters and gun enthusiasts are flocking to downtown Milwaukee for the 135th annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, which begins on Friday.
Retired Gen. Tommy Franks will give the keynote speech at the banquet on Saturday night. "The convention is a celebration of the American freedom we have to own firearms," Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, was quoted as saying. He described the convention as "an uplifting event on firearms, hunting, recreation shooting, collecting, self-defense, crime protection and defending our 2nd Amendment rights to own and bear arms."
Press reports said the NRA will unveil a new campaign against gun confiscation - a direct result of what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, when police rounded up civilians' firearms. The NRA is expected to seek pledges from mayors and police departments around the country that such a thing will never happen in their cities.
NRA members also are expected to press for a concealed carry law in Wisconsin, where the anti-gun governor, Democrat Jim Doyle, has twice vetoed such a measure.
I've always been told muzzle flash is the best deterrent
Good advise.
We all need to join and contribute to this. The NRA got us Bush in 2000, Gore lost his own state over gun rights.
PVC has a better chance of success than the NRA.
They are (well, not trying to put Nagin in jail, but haul the city and other perpetrators before the legal system). They've won a number of court decisions thus far, and the process isn't over yet.
So "yes" the NRA IS "actually doing something".
You nailed it. Tennessee really didn't know who Algore was until the campaign for the presidency.
I notice it's always the non-members who don't have an idea what's going on. You would think Freepers would at least bookmark the BangList.
Civil actions don't count; the worst that can happen is the city's insurer ends up paying a settlement. Nothing happens to the responsible officials. Criminal charges could be brought against them, right now, and it isn't being done. Why should we believe the NRA will demand enforcement of a future law when it ignores the present one?
Civil actions certainly DO count. The "Southern Poverty Law Center" has used civil actions quite effectively to literally destroy some organizations they disagree with. And that's what Bloomberg is attempting to do with his lawsuits against several "out of state" gun dealers.
And no, politicians typically AREN'T punished for such actions (other than, hopefully, being voted out of office). But that's the system we have. Until we can change it, we have to live with it.
Criminal charges could be brought against them, right now, and it isn't being done.
On what specific grounds???
"Why should we believe the NRA will demand enforcement of a future law when it ignores the present one?"
And which specific one is the NRA supposedly "ignoring".
Like it or not, the NRA is the most effective game we have right now. I don't know what YOUR problem is with the organization, but I think they're doing a pretty darned good job.
2. The relevant law is 18 USC 242.
3. My problem with the NRA is that I think they don't play to win because keeping the game going is more profitable to them.
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