Only 5% of the gun owners are activists.
One of the gun groups uses every opportunity to criticize the NRA.
Too many gun owners follow the voting advice of their unions for their pocketbook.
The anti-gun people are the teachers in the public schools.
The gunranges and the hunting areas are being closed because no one cares.
The media and the power brokers are anti-gun.
Every time a nut shoots up a highway sign, someone driving by becomes an anti-gun voter.
Oh, the irony there is just too rich to pass up, since the gun control types say they only want police and military to be armed.
I'm about to let you in on a little secret as to who predominantly shoots up those highway signs. Don't be surprised or even shocked. Those who do it, of course, deny it, and will never, ever get caught.
Most highway signs on lonely roads...have you noticed that they're either hit with a buckshot blast or several medium-caliber handgun holes?
The ugly truth of this one is that most highway signs are shot by the cops themselves, usually out of boredom.
And they'll never get caught, because they are the ones who do the catching. Get it? Give us gun owners a little credit. Most of us have lived through 10 years of persecution and being labeled "gun-totin' redneck psychobilly bubbas" or some such. I know for a fact that I, nor would any shooter I know, willfully deface a public road sign.
The only reason I can even report as to who shoots up signs is because I saw it once. Once. On Angeles Forest Highway, back in 1989. At night. The rest of the details are omitted under my 5th amendment right. But suffice it to say that I was not, nor had I intended to be, there to shoot up road signs.
But at that moment it all fell into place for me, because like you, I wondered what flaming IDIOT of our firearm-owning brethren would hurt our cause like that, especially considering that at the time, Angeles Forest had TWO open shooting "areas". Not ranges...just unsupervised areas where people could go and shoot.
I saw that, and then I knew. Those who have no fear of being caught, those who are out there, day after day, or night after night, bored to tears, with a live firearm and a convenient target, and who don't have to worry anytime soon about being disarmed by public opinion.
Oh, the irony! That much of our woes come from people whom the gun control movement have branded as "worthy"!
I just had to mention that.
DG
Yeas ago, I was involved in a business deal with Bulgaria, at that time a communist block country. Some of their technical people came to the US and in those days no one did that unless they had a political officer in a suit with them to "translate."
We were blasting through rural Indiana in a van, talking through the translator. Things were going fine. Finally, after passing a series of shot-up signs, one of the technical types asks a question and the translator said, "What happened to all those signs?" I said, "People shoot at them with guns. Everyone has a gun here and we shoot ths signs to proclaim our freedom and show the police who is in charge. I'm sure it's different in your country where people show more respect." Silence. He did not translate the answer. Later, I could not believe I said that but I was glad I did.