senorgrand wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 5:53 pm
I disagree. The NRA is a big part of the problem. We (and not just people in CA...I mean nationally) are going to see a significant reduction in our gun rights because of the inability of the NRA to talk like rational people.
CA used to be a pretty red state...but after Pete Wilson, the party eroded to be no more significant than the Libertarians or Greens. They made themselves insignificant. The NRA is doing the same thing.
How about this. The NRA isn't hardline enough and is the reason we're at this point right now. They roll over for political favors and have helped draft all the major gun control regulations on the books now because their old man fudd membership didn't see any of the GC Acts as problem.
Now we're at a point where everyone with their silly feelings thinks every time someone on the news scares them that gun owners have to give something else up or we're being unreasonable. No we're not. Removing a right protected by the constitution using thousands of pages of contradictory buearacratic legalese across multiple states and at a national level is unreasonable. Using the issue to gain political power for your specific party and candidate is even more unreasonable.
My solution. No assault weapons ban, no new taxes, repeal all the useless laws, nationwide 2A preemption with consitutional carry in all 50 states. They get background checks and gun free zones. Theres the compromise. It's the reason I don't belong to the NRA. They are ineffective so I give my money to more effective gun groups and to buy off local politicians as much as possible to stem the tide of democratic dumbassery working it's way into their platforms at all levels.
You want a seat at the table but they don't have one for gun owners. They want them to go sit in the other room at the kids table and they'll bring you whatever they feel you deserve later.
CA will not allow guns in the near future. They'll slow ban them, make it illegal to purchase from outside the state, zone gun stores out of existence so you can't purchase in the state, and then tax guns and ammo to death, or wait for you to actually die before destroying them instead of you passing them on to family. That's the side being irrational. Listening to CA politicians talk about guns makes Ted Nugent sound like a Mensa candidate.