Once again, after a high profile spree killing, the NRA is in lock down. This despite — or because — of mainstream media pro-gun control carpet bombing. Despite the looming threat of new legislation designed to degrade and destroy Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. All that’s coming from the nation’s oldest civil rights organization during this anti-firearms freedom furore? . . .
Radio silence. Well, two Facebook posts (above and below). And then more radio silence. Which begs the question . . .
What is the NRA waiting for? Are they waiting for public sentiment — anger, outrage and disgust — to “cool off”?
In a world of 24/7 “news,” in a country that’s experienced a cluster of horrific mass shootings in a matter of a few months, anti-gun rights resolve appears to be hardening, not dissipating. The NRA’s PR delay leaves the pro-gun position relatively undefended, at a time when its attackers are at their strongest.
As is its pattern, the NRA will eventually emerge from their media isolation to posit a carefully crafted pro-gun position. A position that will do nothing to appease the progressives howling for civilian disarmament.
Shouldn’t the NRA be here, now, at the forefront of the pro-gun position: resisting gun control laws, countering falsehoods, debating gun grabbers, restating the reasoning behind the Second Amendment, giving aid and comfort to its allies, etc.?
Right, like I will listen to these millennials/teens who can’t even figure out how to drive a manual transmission. Do they really care about school safety, kids safety. Not really or they would educate themselves.
How about cell phone texting related traffic collisions? Over 11 teens are killed daily from texting and driving, Over 330,000 are seriously injured every year in texting and driving, where is the outrage? No, they want to take away gun owners rights instead. We should raise the driving age to 21 because teens are not responsible enough to have a phone and drive. Why aren’t teens outraged at Samsung, Verizon, AT&T etc? Because they are stupid, that’s why!
The NRA forced the hand of the right side of our House and Senate, and the President to ‘rule’ on bump-fire stocks.
I need a bump-fire stock more than I need the NRA.
The NRA is empowering though. It really makes people feel like they could take on the POS (D) and rino anti-gun establishment on their own.
Because you have to.
a) national reciprocity is tied to the bill strengthening background checks. Trump is daring the Democrats to vote it down now.
b) Trump allowing an assault weapons ban would close the door on his re-election and that of any GOP incumbent. Just because he’s not ruling it out now doesn’t mean he has any intention of actually allowing it. He also knows the GOP will never allow such a bill to pass.
It’s political theater. As for raising the age to buy certain firearms, such bs already exists with handguns, so it’ll probably happen, which is unfortunate, but then again many 18-22 year olds are still children and Obama says people up to 26 years old should be considered children via ACA.
just dont forget to also raise the minimum age to vote to 21! just looking out… for the children!
“a) national reciprocity is tied to the bill strengthening background checks. Trump is daring the Democrats to vote it down now.”
Not in the Senate.
RF…
As you have pointed out so many times, NRA has a symbiotic relationship with police. NRA cannot criticize police or FBI, or even come close. So, yes, NRA is moving carefully.
Note, however, the the same crowd who claims the NRA is more politically powerful than all the anti-gun movement supported by left wing billionaires, now claims the NRA’s army of millions is a figment of NRA imagination.
“Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
-M.Savage
The NRA has been too busy negotiating away second amendment freedoms to be bothered to respond. More and more of us are withdrawing our support and shifting to the GOA. Corporate supporters of the NRA are going to lose business because of these actions.
I repeat what I said in the other article: the NRA needs to take the offensive, highlighting how many people every day use guns to defend themselves. Fighting off rapists and child abductors and home invaders, scaring burglars and thieves. Get out in front, show how many times a day ordinary people prevent deadly crime.
Enough with this cowering in the dark.
Silent? They offered up bump stocks, and now raising the age limit to 21 for rifles. I’d say they’ve spoken loud and clear.
I do think there needs to be some reorganizing of age limits for various things. Such as: legal drug use age, driving age, military service age, voting age, sexual consent age, gun purchasing age, legal marriage age.
Right now it’s a little silly 21 year olds can buy a handgun when they start drinking and clubbing, 16 year olds can operate a car on public roads before they can buy a gun and 18 year olds can join the military before they can drink a beer.
Now the debate is what should be allowed at what age.
Should we raise the cannabis use and voting age to 25? Should we lower the age to purchase and carry any firearm to 18? Should we force 17 year olds to do 1 year of military service as their last year of public education? Should we lower sexual consent and marriage age to 16? Lower the alcohol consumption age to 15-16 when under supervision and 18 for purchasing?
At times like this I often wonder if it is better to go after the grabbers or do the “rope-a-dope” and let then slug themselves out. I myself have spent a lot of time on the internet battling misleading and disingenuous remarks by anti-gun types. One thing they almost never try to respond to is asking them to explain how their various measures wil actually work. I also like to point out that comparing only “gun homicides” instead of total murders is misleading.
At this point I don’t think it matters. This all going one way at this point. We’ve crossed the Rubicon as a society already, on the road to war. The tinder box is ready, it only needs a spark. That spark might not be the assassination of an Archduke, but the results will look the same. Get your things in order, stock up while you still can.
Eh, let teachers teach. If they want to take on the additional responsibility to carry that is their individual choice.
You would think there are enough army veterans and armed citizens needing jobs to load up schools with qualified personnel to be volunteer or long term armed security.
It’s primarily the long police response times that make it feasible for murderers to get a high casualty rate.
So I watched TV coverage of all the student anti gun speeches on the steps of Florida capitol today, My question?, How is this not hate speech?. They are threatening NRA members, calling gun owners crazy because we have a difference of opinion. Want to see hate speech, just watch these students.
a 2-year old polar bear isn’t even full size.
according to the interwebz: “The polar bear is the largest meat eating land dweller in the world. Male polar bears reach their full size when they are 8 to 10 years old. Then they measure 8 to 11 feet and weigh more than 1,000 pounds. The necks, skulls, and bodies of polar bears are longer than brown bears.”
So, I’m thinking 3 shots from a .44 magnum and the juvenile polar bear still walked away means .44 mag probably ain’t enough gun.
Aaron,
“I’m thinking 3 shots from a .44 magnum and the juvenile polar bear still walked away means .44 mag probably ain’t enough gun.”
From my post above:
The next step up is .454 Casull which takes you from a 305 grain bullet to a 360 grain bullet with pretty much the same muzzle velocity and diameter.
As long as you are shooting heavy-for-caliber hardcast lead bullets, I don’t think it will matter very much whether you shoot .44 Magnum or .454 Casull as long as you are shooting stout loads.
“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.” -Henry Rollins
The NRA, It’s pseudo-intellectual members members and the politicians on it’s payroll are the cowards… the 2nd Amendment is just words, words cannot out do actions of the free american people who are sick of these terrorists.
Thought’s and prayers cant save you from being shot.
Australia does not have this problem, Europe, does not have this problem, Canada does not have this problem and neither does Japan.
A lot of people in the comments are saying that teachers should be armed… The same teachers that are overworked and underpaid, who work nights and weekends to get test plans ready and grade papers, who often have to work a second job just to make ends meet, who are the first to get blamed when your bratty kid has no discipline and acts out, who are ridiculed for being in a union, whom many have not gotten a raise in several years, who are teaching overfilled classrooms, who just lost their minuscule tax break for having to pay for students supplies out of their own pockets because parents are sending their kids to school with nothing, who have to pay to have copies made out of their own pockets because the school doesn’t have toner for their copier… You want those people to now be armed guards as well?
Let me ask this also; who is going to pay for the guns and the training? Are you willing to pay higher taxes for this?
“Europe, does not have this problem”
You are obviously not paying attention to what is going on in Europe. Gun control is the rule there so the Islamic hordes have free reign to kill with guns, knives, trucks, bombs or what ever they can think of.
The major media in America does not report those crimes because it does not fit their agenda and might show people of “the religion of peace” in a bad ( but true ) light.
At least part of the time, turn off CNN, MSNBC and those other branches of the democrat party and tune into some others. Try One America News (OAN) for a channel that supports America.
Hey brainiac.
“its” not “it’s.” It’s is a contraction of it is.
“the politicians on it’s payroll”
You’re welcome.
If you haven’t figured out as a gun owner that the media is not your friend, then I can’t help you. And you might even harm me and other gun owners with the things you say and do, all because you want to have a camera in your face.
For you striker fired aficionados.
Hell of a time for a FTF, FTE, stovepipe, etc.
Carry what you must, but a heavy caliber wheel gun is king in bear country!
I try to carry a spare mag. Don’t judge me.
It is same capacity for LCP but 17 rounder for SR9c.
The 33 round Mag would be the hardest thing for me to conceal (comfortably).
You could always carry your beta c-mag drum in your man purse, then you’d be super tactical.
Generally speaking, the NRA is better off remaining quiet publically, but working diligently behind the scenes, in the aftermath of a spree shooting. You want to avoid applying what psychologists call classical conditioning. Think back to your college Psych 101 course and Pavlov’s dog.
An unconditioned stimulus, like dog food, prompts an unconditioned response, the dog salivating. This is natural and instinctive.
A neutral stimulus, like a bell, prompts no conditioned response, like salvation. Ears make perk up and the head may turn, but that’s just curiosity.
Combining the bell ringing with food prompts the unconditioned response of salivation. That’s the conditioning processs, associating the bell with the food.
Finally, ringing the bell alone, the conditioned stimulus, prompts the salivation, the conditioned response. OK, so what?
Well, a school shooting is an unconditioned stimulus. The public’s anguish, handwringing, sense of powerlessness, etc. that follow is the unconditioned response.
The NRA making a very publuc statement is a neutral response. They make statements all the time, after all. Who notices?
If the NRA comes out swiftly and loudly right after a school shooting, however, it’s possible they can be linked with the shooting in the minds of the public, and therefore be associated with and a cause of public anguish. That anguish is a period of days/weeks, you see, and not everyone feels it immediately. An NRA statement, right after the shooting, could still precede much of the anguish.
Avoiding that public statement and association is wise, for it avoids linking the NRA with the shooting and by extension the overwhelming negative emotions people feel.
That’s the theory, anyway. Some supporting evidence for it relates to politicians and others sending their “thoughts and prayers” to victims and their families. Now, thoughts and prayers are viciously ridiculed as being worthless, such perfunctory statements are beimg seen as exacerbating people’s existing negative feelings.
The FaceBook page looks to have been created in about five minutes. A cursory search of the “projects” on their website reveals nothing. It’s a hoax. Using the names of Nat’l Geographic, CBS, A&E, Fox, Discovery, NBC, PBS, History Channel, and Netflix without permission about fictitious programs is tantamount to libel and fraudulent, plain and simple.
Don’t know.
I called or emailed all my state and national representative today.
I didn’t mention the NRA. I was representing me. A concerned citizen.
I have read so many posts concerning the blogger lovers except this piece of
writing is really a good piece of writing, keep it up.
This made a crap day into a bearable one. Also I kinda like the phrase “patrol type rifle.” If the police use them to protect us, then clearly they make sense for protecting yourself.
Yep, that’s Massad Ayoob’s argument.
Yeah I just sent Florida Carry a thank you check.
Fake news.
Michael Moore just assured us the other day that civilians legally defending themselves or others with guns is a myth perpetrated by the NRA.
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This is the kind of welcome news that makes me happy. Logic and reason is always greater than out of control emotions and tantrums.
“most precious and vulnerable members of our society” – WTF? Do you remember school and or have you seen any of those toilet lickers lately?
The topic of concealed carry seems to be the one area we are winning. But at least we have a republican majority in congress and a NRA endorsed president to protect our rights????????
These days when the President speaks about a controversial topic, especially one he’s campaigned on, he is wheeling and dealing. The issue of DACA and the possible amnesty of a group of illegal immigrants is a good template. First he mentioned he was supportive of amnesty. Only after everyone got excited (both for and against), he mentioned the conditions: the wall, ending chain migration, lottery migration). The result is no deal because the Democrats weren’t willing to compromise.
He’s starting the same way with gun control. What has he said he really wants, what he campaigned on? The Second Amendment generally, and concealed carry reciprocity specifically. Dollars to donuts, President Trump will be bringing that up when he judges the time is right. Will Democrats allow concealed carry via reciprocity in New York, California and other bastions of progressivism? Likely not.
10yo girls master social media! Do all u so called progun ASFUDGE have all the social media platforms mastered and blow out the internet with your super progun asfu*k message everyday>?
If not shut up..ur the problem and u need a good kicking and u should not have guns or rights or be in America!!
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This looks like a pity party with not one fool with a solution! Trump is still better than a hitlary so far …..politicians and elections have become popularity contest hence OKRAH thinking of running so she can sell more diet books and diet food and hypnotize the sheep.
I almost slapped this old STAY HOME TV BRAINWASHED WATCHING bitch that said I heard it on OAKRAH ITS GOT TO BE TRUE.
POLITICIANS ESPECIALLY IN A ELECTION YEAR TRY TO APPEASE BOTH SIDES WALK THE MIDDLE TIGHT ROPE TRYING TO NOT P!SS OFF THE MAJORITY. LEARN THE GAME!
A ELECTED REPUBLICAN OR ONE RUNNING ….MAY BE IN A 50/50 DEM/REPUB STATE! TO GET OR STAY ELECTED HE HAS TO REACH OVER ON BOTH SIDES OR APPEAR TOO… ESPECIALLY DURING A EMOTIONAL EVENT CUZ THAT’S ALL PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER IN NOV.
I feel really sorry for teh future cuz these kids are brainwashed and a majority drank the bloombag campus koolaid and hate guns….it was nice while it lasted but, America will soon be like YEMEN unless the buttercups start sucking it up! FAST!!
AT BEST TRUMP IS KIND OF A FUDD HUNTER NRA GUN RIGHTS GUY……FUDDS DON’T GIVE A FUDGE ABOUT 30RD MAGS AND BLACK RIFLES……..
“JUST DON’T BOTHER MY CLOWN FACE DOUBLE-BARREL SHOTTY AND DEER RIFLE”
Lets build the #GOA and leave the NRA. Yes some republicans suck but, 99% of baby killing democrats suck far worse.
The only choice is to go with the lessor of 2 evils get use to it and pick wisely!
If a politician does not support or wants to restrict my right to self defense of my family…. then THEY ARE my worse enemy …and i want them thrown out of office and AMerica ASAP!
Trump>hitlary
Winchester .243 was the best for me too.
ar15 upper receiver
bolt carrier group
iPhones are junk,,,,Glocks are the best of the best.
I agree, in bear country a revolver just works. never had a revolver malfunction. Even so, animals don’t know they are supposed to die. How many times have you had to track a deer that had a fatal placed round and it still ran a few hundred yards before bleeding out. . I cannot imagine a pissed polar bear in a tent. It’s not the movies, animals don’t just fall down unless it is a central nervous system/spine or severe brain trauma shot.
What commercial range is going to allow this?
How much testing have they done to insure there is no fire hazard?
I’ve come to realize since last election that at least 50% of our population is … dumb. Well I already knew that, but not the depths of stupidity I see today. I’m talking about the stupendous and awe-inducing level of dumb achieved by anti-guntards. People with no concept of history, logic, and common sense. Now, I can wrap my brain around and tolerate willful ignorance but not the flagrant and increasing attempts to endanger law abiding citizens and their children by passing moronic legislation.
This realization puts me, a firearm carrying responsible law abiding citizen, in a precarious position:
If/when I find myself in a position to save some sheeple, there’s over a 50/50 chance I could unknowingly be putting myself in harm’s way for one or more of these stupid people.
Doesn’t seem like good odds nor worth the risk. I mean the best outcome is you save their life and they continue to put me in danger and breed more tards.
Makes more sense to let them Darwin themselves out.
“with Night OPS, defenders and law enforcement can track their shots and adjust fire quickly”
So can mass shooters when engaging a crowd of people at night in a ‘gun-free-zone’ that isn’t gun-free…
Albuquerque has become an impoverished criminal cesspool, overrun with illegal aliens, homeless, and countless drug addicts. The cops here are afraid to leave their cars, and no longer make arrests. Cartels own and run the streets, violence and human trafficking is the norm, and shootouts are so common that the police rarely respond to them unless there is a body in the street, or injured requiring medical intervention.
The violence portrayed in “Breaking Bad” is mild compared to what is really going on here. Within the last month feds raided a house in the South Valley only to find only a house full of corpses (unreported in the local and national press), and according to a State Police buddy of mine, this is not unusual. Headless bodies, and murder victims are being found “posed” are turning up all over the city, with barely a mention in local and national media.
It is literally beyond belief. If you’re a gun owner in Burque ( or “Burque-stan”), you carry. Period.
It’s really not surprising that a military member was on the scene in this scenario, because in a bizarre juxtaposition, while Burquestan is quickly becoming the nation’s ‘official’ crime capital, it is also a training center for elite military and security forces from the US and around the world.
This is by no means the first time a special operator who was just minding his own business and doing time in “Burque” has had to defend himself and the innocent, and now that you know the real story, you can bet that it isn’t the last.
Unless you have business in the State of New Mexico, and have to come here, my best advice is to simply stay away. This is no longer a vacation destination, or a charming throwback . It’s a true war zone. # 1 nationally in property crime, #1 nationally in car theft, and officially as of 2016, statistically #2 in violent crime, but realistically now #1 nationally.
This is a very bad neighborhood. Very bad. The best thing you can do for this place is #stayaway
#Shithole, #Burquestan, #Stayaway
soooo….
I’m not that good with facebook, but I attempted to actually find this sjw’s original post. Clicked the link, tried to find the source… anyone else try this cause, either she just disappeared or I suspect this quote and picture are from two seperate unrelated sources.
Anyone else look at this? RF, care to verify?
I own one of his uppers. It’s nice, but it’s way more expensive than the exact same thing (literally) from Gibbz, who I think makes them in the first place. I only bought it because it was a Black Friday sale and it made it cheaper. But I’ll never buy anything from him again.
I applaud this article’s usage of “[police patrol type] rifles” Whenever anyone uses the term “military assault style rifle”, I cringe and then point out what they really mean is police patrol rifles, a much more fitting term, as they are not select fire (the very definition of what makes assault weapons assault weapons). I don’t think most people are even aware that cops carry AR-15s in their squad cars.
How about… Buy your own armor plate for kid’s backpack? Makes the pack heavier but you can do it now, no bills needed, be responsible for yourself and family. I have one in my pack for work, which is also weapon free. We are supposed to run, hide, or fight. Harden yourself. Sure in the old days whatever, but I can’t expect evil people to not try to attack or kill me. Best to be prepared. If you don’t want to spend the cash fine.
Arming Teachers. Gives me a vision of showing up for work and getting a load-out from a weapons locker.
Instead – we should allow teachers to carry to protect themselves and their students.
If someone doesn’t want to carry, then they don’t – just like out in the real world.
Nobody knows who is armed and who isn’t – works for me.
Not worried about the LEO response issue. By the time they get there, it is usually to watch the shooter cap himself and count bodies.
Hopefullly, the body count will be lower and the cops will have to use some restraint and not shoot everyone they see.
They’re busy laundering cash from the Russians…