[OldMissileer]

While I do not trust the NRA much I think they believe these laws are going to pass regardless and that injecting themselves into the fray would give ammo to the leftists.

The NRA is high profile and sometimes their participation can be used against them by the left.

Discretion being the better part of valor, and all that...

[jwparkerjr]

re: Discretion being the better part of valor, and all that...

Exactly the "Mom" phrase I was going to use! A winner knows, among other things, how to choose the fights he figures he can win and avoid the rest. Mom had a million of 'em, and everyone of them comes in handy on a daily basis. God rest her soul, she LOVED words and always stressed how important it is to use the correct word phrase.

Her response to "Why?" was always her big moment though! "Because I said so, that's why!

Allow me to illustrate using a picture I took sometime back at Busch Gardens:



The little guy had been running around aggravating other gorillas, so Mom went over and I would swear she talked to him!