I think winning is
*WAY* to optimistic.
Lived to fight another day isn't too bad a description.
This battle is a long way from over folks. The power structures see us as an enemy. Like that or not, that's how it is. We ignore this fact at our peril.
Remember the thread last year about how mere gun ownership was indicative of corrupted judgement according to many in the medical community?
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=672394
Well guess what. My wife works in that community, and she commits people sometimes. And it's true. Outside of the rural areas the "gun owners" are viewed skeptically. Certainly this isn't universal in the medical community, but it's wide spread.
And now here we are all fighting off the beast to perhaps have that same medical community certify our sanity as a requirement for ownership? No one here wants that, but Joe Biden would take it as a requirement if he couldn't get anything else. (You must be sane to own a gun. Well, if you want to own a gun that's diagnostic that you're disturbed, so no gun for you mister.)
What I said the day after Sandy Hook is that we, the gun community, need to be seen as the national champions for the mental health community.
They need to love us and swoon when we walk in the door because they see research dollars drip out of our pockets.
The research institutes are the ivory towers of the power structures. Things filter down from there like tablets brought down by Moses. So if we begin to become a coveted funding source, then we become a favored rather than despised social group. The ivory towers have two kinds of favored groups, benefactors and victims. We'll never reach victimhood to them, so we'd better start becoming their benefactors.