Your gun club needs to start thinking more.
The NRA has a reservoir of goodwill they can use to fight for gun rights. Every action they take uses up some of that goodwill. They need to save their efforts for a fight we can win. If they fight Sotomayor and lose, they are permanently weakened.
The smart thing to do is to realize that Sotomayor does not change the balance of the Heller court. Therefore we focus our efforts on incorporation and get that one under our belt before Obama has a chance to change the balance of the court.
Once we have incorporation and Heller, the Supremes are not going to reverse themselves for at least half a century, if then.
Which is neither here nor there provided she was always perfect in taking her blood sugar measurements, and making sure she wasn't injecting bacteria and viruses.
Recently she's shown signs of a type of brittle bone syndrome that occurs to many long-term insulin users. Walking across the floor in an air terminal she BROKE HER ANKLE.
That's symptomatic of the condition.
I give her 6 months to a year and she'll be outta' the USSC for good.
There's really not a lot of reasons for wasting all your political capital opposing her. Save it up for the next one.