Naw, they're not a big multi billion dollar insurance company like AAA. But they do keep you posted as to legislation regarding motorists. And they were influential in getting 55 repealed. And they do have some uselful trip advice against unlawful searches and how to fight traffic tickets.
Horsefeathers. Braggart nothings.
I doubt that you would convince Vavocado or Roscoe if you had positive proof that AAA ignored the wishes of their "members" for abolishing the national limit. Their adherence to the status quo is more than obvious on this thread. The fact that a Libertarian candidate is challenging an unconstitutional law only hardens their resolve.
Rule of law and all that.
It took several decades of law-breaking to finally make the politicians understand that a national speed limit was a bad idea. That, and numerous studies showing that higher speeds on interstate highways do not mean more fatalaties, but rather greater economic output.
When it came down to the nut-cuttin', it was the American people that demanded their rights back, and Congress had no choice. The insurance lobby and the greenies were no match for pissed-off voters.
I see a parallel here with the right to keep and bear arms.
The NRA is essentially in the AAA's role, saying they're satisfied with the status quo - but no more.
Scholars such as Dr. John Lott provide the intellectual ammunition supporting gun ownership and liberalized carry laws.
Unlike the speed limit, there will never be a majority of citizens overtly breaking the gun laws, unless those laws become an outright ban. In that case, all bets are off.
But a few non-celebrities getting busted for carrying a weapon where they shouldn't will go a long way toward making the TV-watching, beer-guzzling public aware that one of their most important rights, that of self-defense, is being taken away from them.
Win or lose (and I personally think this guy will lose, unfortunately), acts of civil disobedience can bring into focus the unjustice we've come to believe is "justice" and "the rule of law." For the vast majority of the population, who don't have what could be descrbed as a political philosophy ("I vote for the man, not the party" is an admission that they don't know diddly about what separates W from Gore, for instance), it takes something dramatic such as this to get them off their duffs.
I will be especially interested to see how the NRA and GOA sway and duck to avoid having to support a Libertarian.