I have no idea why I have to explain to you how to defeat antigun legislation but here goes anyway. Hint: It’s not sending an email to your members which gives you a warm fuzzy feeling.
You have to meet with every legislator in Congress and the Senate and explain to them that voting for a antigun bill is a bad idea. You then count up the votes for and against the bill to see if you win or lose. If you know the bill is going to be defeated, you can relax and wait for the next time.
If you’re going to lose, you have to minimize the damage and ask your supporters in the legislation to cut down the worse aspects of the bill. In this case, the anti’s probably want anyone who has ever seen a shrink to lose their Gun Rights. That’s not acceptable to any gun group. What will probably happen is this bill will pass if someone is a danger to themselves and others. That’s what the headlines will read.
The antigun morons will still say the NRA tried to give guns to mental hospital patients and the GOA and now the SAS will say the NRA worked to take away your Gun Rights.
“...If you’re going to lose, you have to minimize the damage and ask your supporters in the legislation to cut down the worse aspects of the bill. In this case”
I wonder where those “minimizations” were.
Where’s the sunset?
Where’s the appeal process?
Where are the provisions for non-LEO and non-Military?
Where are the other things that the mighty NRA could have negotiated, like NATIONAL RECIPROCITY in agreement to capitulation on this.
Nope. They caved.
I think it’s time to remind everyone here that the test in the language of the bill is “ADJUDICATED”.
Adjudicated means “judged”
Judged means there IS a judge.
Judges are POLITICAL APPOINTEES
Political appointees = political agenda
Before you know it, we Freepers will be “adjudicated” mentally unstable faster than you can say ‘Barack Obama’.
Remind me again where the NRA was on this?
Sorry, couldn’t disagree with you more.
As to the ‘other’ groups, the reason why they don’t do better is because NRA lemmings can’t get it through their thick heads that just like a stock portfolio for retirement, diversity of investment in your RIGHTS is a wise strategy to. They keep habitually donating to the NRA like a junkie, but it’s the rest of America that just gets the Smack.
Respectfully submitted, of course.