Re: Who has had their mind changed on gun control?
The antis are losing, don't confuse their arrogance with reality. Fact is, their emotional appeals were shoved right back down their throats the last try, Colorado just recalled a couple of idiots who went against the voters' will, and representatives are basically begging for permission to compromise. That is not anti gun victory, now, do we capitalize on the spineless nature of our reps, or do we let them regroup? That is the question we should ask, with more firearms being purchased than ever, and the anti gunners louder than ever, it's time to tell the reps we are taking the second amendment back. This cannot be done in one bite, because the current mess is over a century in the making, we take big bites when we can, get rid of idiotic legislation, THEN, we focus on the rest.
I am not confused. Count the number of new laws and bills. Gun controls effort after Sandy Hook only failed because they did not move speedily enough. I doubt they will make that same mistake again. I admire gun control only for its lessons in tactics, strategy and success. Gun control has much to teach us and best we learn if we want to win. See Sun Tzu The Art of War.
Virtually all effort to counter gun control came from grass roots efforts and GOA. All others if they did anything was promoting guns and ammo sales, promoting gun ownership, selling and promoting services and advising on gun safety. We can win nothing with that except money in somebodies pocket.
The NRA sat on its bum for a week in silence and then slapped firearm owners rights in the face by acceptance and agreement with the schools gun free act. Not one word was said of the rights of teachers and parents to be armed. Instead the NRA proposed trained guards which the NRA conveniently had a training program for. Then it agreed with back ground checks. At no point in time did the NRA make a statement defending firearm owners rights which have been infringed or said one word of objection to disarmed teachers and parents. At no time did the NRA advise people to defend their rights or counter the inroads gun control was making with its scare tactics which nearly sunk this ship. At no time did the NRA or other organisation even realise what was happening and few if any made the slightest effort to mobilise firearm owners or even advise them on what to do. The majority of counter effort for Sandy Hook came from police departments and that is a very unreliable source of support.
Truckers get in on the act while firearm owners are still sitting on their bum pretending they have won.
We need to start examining things in the cold light of day not what we would like it to be or think it is. Fact gun control made huge leaps at the state and public level. And at the end of the day California, Britain, Australia, South Africa, Jamaica, Philippines... is a very good example of how useless firearm organisations really are.
We focus on winning and take what we can get. That way every step is a victory on the path to our goal. No final goal to work to no win. No step or intervention can be more important than the goal.
The fight stops only when we reach our goal, our objective, our reason for fighting. Gun control will not stop until citizens are safe from our guns. What are we fighting for? Ask a few firearm owners and see what you get. When will examine why we lose instead of thinking we are winning and start to win?
The truth is that if firearm organisations cannot win in California they cannot win the USA. Firearm organisations do not know how to win. They do not even know what kind of fight they are in and they have made no improvement in 200 years. Why is that?
