farmerman wrote:I gree with Montana , ownership of the gun should not be an issue and Id resist anyone trying to limit my ownership in any fashion. I am, however, adamant about how certain reasonable rules are failing to be placed in law, such as the recently defeated law in Pa where the gun owner whose either lost or had a gun stolen MUST report it to the authorities.
HOW wud that make the world a better place, Farmer ?
Explain ?
Quote:
This law failed to pass under heavy lobbying by the gun industry and NRA.
NRA is part of a problem.
Yes; under its current leadership,
it is giving away the store,
compromising on rights that shud
not be negotiable.
In a yard sale, u might dicker over the price of an old lamp,
but if a customer demands to buy your wife
( or to rent your mother, for a weekend, or overnight )
that shud NOT open to negotiation.
Quote:It is a manufacturers lobby
That statement is factually false.
The gun manufacturing industry is very small.
It amounts to only a small fraction of Toys R Us, for instance.
Better to compare it to
the Jewish Defense League
or
the NAACP.
Quote:, it has no longer identified itself with the hunter/gun owner interests.
(It used to be a valid sportsmens org, not a political power broker)
For a long time,
it was the only civil rights organization
that defended our constitutional rights against gun control.
Without the early fights of the NRA,
the rights of self defense and of access to the means of its implementation
wud have been swept away by the collectivist authoritarians,
and
it 'd have been FORGOTTEN.
The citizens wud have been disarmed,
docile,
and ready for government to take over the country,
end elections and rule by fiat, like Saddam did.
