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Justice delayed is Justice denied...It is now 40 years since the 1968 GCA. It was as wrong then as it is now. I was a child then, now my children are adults. It has been 74 years since the 1934 NFA was enacted. My grandfather was a young man then, now his great-grand-children are adults. It would seem this infringment has gone on for more than a lifetime.
Maybe, with Patience, this will all be unraveled when my great-grandchildren are adults.
Look at the Civil Rights movement - the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868, and it took until 1968 for the Civil Rights Act to be passed over the strident objections of Congressional Democrats.
Segregation in schools was declared legal in 1896, and it took until 1954 for the Supreme Court to reverse that, and until 1957 for the racist Democrat Arkansas governor to be forced to comply with desegregation by Republican President Eisenhower.
What finally broke the dam after decade upon decade of tiny leaks and cracks? Victims of abuse and denial of civil rights standing up face to face with their oppressors, suffering humiliating indignities and unblinkingly confronting great personal risk, and saying "I SHALL NOT BE MOVED."
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's what the whole Open Carry movement is about. It's not about "defensive tactics" as some critics seem to think, it's about "political tactics." It's a daily, ongoing, lunch-counter sit-in for firearms freedom.
There's supposedly 80 million gun owners in the US. Why doesn't the NRA have 80 million members? Why don't the Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America, and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership each have 80 million members? Why doesn't each state association have hundreds of thousands or millions of members?
We must straighten our backs and work for firearms freedom, but tens of millions of us apparently can't be bothered. Apparently 9.6 cents a day for NRA membership and 5.5 cents a day for Gun Owners of New Hampshire membership is just too much for some people. They'll talk a big game about burying their guns if Obama's elected, but they won't lift a finger to see to it that he's NOT ELECTED.
No wonder we're forty years into GCA'68 and 74 years into the NFA. It makes me sick.