Email blast from the NRA ILA:
While both sides in the gun control debate regroup after our victory in the Senate earlier this week, I want to give credit where credit is due. The credit for Wednesday’s defeat of gun control goes to the countless gun owners and other Americans who drew a line in the sand—who sent emails and letters and made phone calls to their U.S. senators, urging them to protect private firearm transfers, semi-automatic firearms, and the magazines that millions of Americans own for self-defense . . .
There is no question that you shocked the enemies of liberty two days ago. Going into Wednesday’s votes, they thought victory was within reach. Many in the media had pushed the idea that resistance to the gun control agenda was futile, and some of our more aggressive adversaries may have started to believe their own propaganda. I’m sure some had convinced themselves that the intensity of their anger toward gun owners was all that was necessary to assure victory.
But you and your fellow gun owners proved them wrong. As you know, the best Americans do what they have to do, not for personal praise, but because it’s the right thing to do. They do what has to be done not only for themselves, but for their fellow Americans today and for generations of Americans to come. Nevertheless, on behalf of all of us at NRA headquarters, I want to thank you for answering the call.
As you know, however, we can take only measured comfort from this week’s success. In his bitter response to the Senate’s votes, President Obama said that this fight is far from over, and that’s the one thing that he is right about.
Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), sponsor of the gun control bill debated this week, has promised to bring his bill up at a more opportune moment. Obama’s “Organizing for America,” billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Gun Guns,” and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ “Americans for Responsible Solutions” will focus their efforts on defeating pro-Second Amendment senators in 2014.
I say to those groups and their leaders, that pro-Second Amendment senators stood with us and we will stand with them, as we have with other elected representatives who have supported the Second Amendment before them.
Over the last generation, gun owners have had tremendous success advancing our cause. The refusal of the Obama administration and anti-gun radicals in Congress to attack us during Obama’s first term is a testament to our strength. They became emboldened by Obama’s reelection and over the last four months, we have weathered an anti-gun public relations campaign as severe as any we have experienced. And we have won the first legislative battle at the national level.
Our adversaries are well-funded, though, and as determined as any we have seen before. The fight ahead will be as difficult as this organization and the gun owning community has ever faced. Prepare for what’s ahead. Every gun owner will be needed on the team. Elected officials who support the Second Amendment will be subjected to a well-financed, cleverly conceived campaign designed to convince them that they are on the wrong side of history. Our job and yours will be to expose that claim for the fraud that it is. Please find strength in the knowledge that the victories best savored are those that are hardest fought, and encourage our friends in Congress to do the same.
Thank you for all you did to win this fight, and for your readiness to win the fights that will come.
Too late, she distracted me
Damn…just missed the head shot. Some people just need killin’.
“Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
All its missing is a Knoxx Sidewinder mod… or maybe an integrated light
TO: All
RE: The FACT of the Matter Is….
….that the government wants all of US to be dependent on their ‘good judgement’. As politically correct as that may be.
My point is that if the FBI has ‘scrubbed’ the concept of ‘Islamic Terrorism’ from their training and protocols—DESPITE LAST WEEKS FUN AND GAMES IN BOSTON—none of US can trust the federal government to do ANYTHING!
Their blatant failure to do their ‘job’, let alone their ‘duty’ to US, is rank evidence of the nature the federal government has become under the Obama administration.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out….should anyone care to examine it…..]
Is this the first time potheads ran toward the police instead of away?
I don’t know that “censorship” is the best word to use here. Censorship implies prior restraint, and no one is forcing Facebook to do this…it’s a private company.
I don’t particularly like it but it’s their choice, just as it is the choice of other companies such as Ebay, PayPal, etc., to be anti-gun. Free market and all that.
Still not going to bash the cops — unless other facts arise — but, apparently, they did not know their target and what was beyond it:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/20/us/boston-changed-city/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I’d expect more truth from Lawrence O’Donnell than from The Mirror. And I expect that every word out of O’D’s mouth is a lie.
TO: All
RE: Facebook? And Google?
They’re as evil as Islam.
’nuff said.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out…..]
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Jefferson.
In for the sh*tstorm. Will need a large bucket of popcorn for this one
FB is one of the primary effects and causes of the narcissistic, “me” generation. It’s a sign of our pathetic times and, dare I say, a harbinger of why this nation is failing. Remember, they allowed death threats against Zimmerman, but they pull harmless gun ads. I’m so shocked progressive fascists are hypocrites.
Lets see, RKBA just no right to talk about them, I get it now. One of these days discrimination like that will result in costly lawsuits, stick a fork in the bradys/grabbers then, Randy
It’s pretty simple, if “mass shooters” are taken out before they have an opportunity to get a high number of victims the gun grabbers lose. Gun-free zones become a feedback loop for stricter and stricter laws. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
Now whether that’s intentional or just ignorance is the question, and a scary thing to ponder.
Interesting no one is worked up about her having her finger in the trigger guard, but the supposed “hunter” in the MAIG video w his finger inside the trigger guard of the shottie has everyone upset.
Bad guy dies; good guy lives. Fair trade.
In a Liberal Progressive City: Bad guy lives, bad guy gets money, good guy either dies or is robbed – maybe both. Maybe the other people in the store get killed as well. Police and detectives respond later. Maybe they draw a chalk outline and maybe they don’t. The bad guy might get caught, or might not. If the bad guy does get caught, he is incarcerated at taxpayer expense, and likely let out early. Perhaps he commits another violent crime and the cycle continues, and perhaps not.
thruthaboutguns your losing me lately. Idk about you but if one of my friends said the were thinking about suicide I’m probably gonna take his friggin guns. Better I have them so when he snaps out of it he can have em back rather than he end up dead or get them confiscated.
Pretty sure thats called being a good friend.
I am so sick of being labeled a kook, nut, extremist, ad nauseum – she can FOAD.
“But if 20 dead children can’t persuade Congress to tighten gun laws, what will?” – ummm, how about relevant facts & proposals that would actually have an impact?
Did you catch the part where they say the 19 year-old ran his SUV into the 26 year-old? Sibling rivalry or maybe just cosmic karma?
I can picture the younger brother being all fed up with the level of shti they had fallen into and plowing right through his brother as payback for harshing his mellow.
RF, although I disagree with your inferences and opinions on marijuana, I can most certainly agree that the situation in Mexico is tragic on a level that most of us can not even begin to comprehend. I think it is an important issue to highlight and I appreciate your commitment to reporting on it. I say this not to disrespect you or your article, but just to bring it to your attention: as I scrolled through the list of dates and descriptions of dozens of terrible and violent acts, all I could think of was Joe Nocera’s “Gun Report”. Did that cross your mind at all as you were putting this together?
Been there, done that, laugh at it occasionaly.
Wasn’t arrested, but was suspended due to refusing to change, and I was in the South! But the Principal was VERY Liberal.
No NRA/RKBA, but absolutly no problem when someone wore a Black Power shirt.