[suijuris]

Never really thought of it this way before, but a politician's contempt for the second amendent is probably equal to his contempt of you or me.

I have always thought of it this way, and as recently as five years ago was considered extremely radical because of it. Mostly by supposed RKBA supporters and NRA members With its compromises and capitulations "for the greater good" the NRA is part of the problem, not the solution).

When it comes to voting I am a sigle issue voter. This issue is the litmus test! There is nothing else I need to know about a pol running for office.

Unfortunately it forces me to hold 95% of politicians in utter contempt.

Suijuris

[Shooter 2.5]

The NRA doesn't make laws. They can only lobby for laws.

They also represent only 5% of the gun owners of this country.

In spite of the media claiming the NRA are extremists and gun owners who are not members claiming they don't do anything, It was the NRA that stopped the gun laws that were happening for the last forty years while the other gun groups were too small to be effective. The Brady Bill is a failure to ALL gun groups and not just the NRA. The Bill was originally a fifteen day waiting period. It was "compromised" to an instant check.

The only way you can judge how well the NRA acts is by reading an article from Fortune magazine that put the NRA as America's top lobbying group.

[Shooter 2.5]

"Unfortunately it forces me to hold 95% of politicians in utter contempt.

Oddly enough, that's the same percentage of gun owners who sit on the sidelines and do nothing who have earned my contempt.