The National Rifle Association has discovered that battles in state legislatures are often more easily won than those in Washington. Their strategy has adapted accordingly. While there is little regarding guns going on in Congress at the moment, the NRA has been extremely busy across the country, achieving victory after victory in state legislatures. In the last 12 years, 23 states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry firearms—Nebraska and Kansas just this year. Fifteen states now have “stand your ground” laws allowing potential victims to use deadly force with a gun to stop an attack. Also, as we found during Katrina, laws against “emergency” gun confiscation are necessary, and ten states have passed them (a federal bill is also in Congress).
The NRA’s success has been so pronounced at the state level that Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre noted, “The closer we get back home, the stronger we are.” Even the Brady Campaign admits that.
Source: 15 September 2006 | PatriotPost.US | Patriot Vol. 06 No. 37
Now, if the NRA would just back off their position that what we need is to enforce the gun laws that we have, and go to the more correct position that we need to abandon the many unconstitutional gun laws many of us would get back to supporting the NRA financially.
For now, I will continue to give my valuable pennies and dimes to GOA.
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