What I feared would happen has happened.
Let me explain...
The SOLE defense gun owners have is grass roots campaigns, calling representatives, writing letters, e-mailing, and so on. We get no media coverage (that's positive). Meanwhile, the other side has been battering the NRA from every angle, essentially laying the dead bodies of children at their feet and saying "you caused this."
Now, we have gun owners all ranting and raving over some executive orders, which apparently do very little. We're thumping our chests and stomping about saying "See, he can't do anything."
But I urge you to look deeper in to the message delivered today.
The real power behind what Obama did wasn't in those Executive orders.
No. He called upon the American people to mobilize, to call their representatives, to write letters, to bombard their people in Washington to ask "Do you support this?" And if not, "Why?"
This is terrifying.
Why? One might ask.
Because our tactics are now being used against us, WITH the support of the media, WITH the support of the executive office. Obama flat out said "this is all I can do, the rest is up to YOU, America."
Not up to congress. Not up to senators and representatives. Not up to judges or treaties or executive orders.
He just mobilized the average citizen in to, what will become in short order, the largest lobbying group in the country. His message will be repeated on every major news outlet. Every newspaper. Every television set. Every internet site.
YOU are responsible for calling your senators. Your representatives. And demanding action.
No longer will we see what we saw in New York, where one assemblyman said "my staff informed me this morning that we received over 400 calls and e-mails calling for me to vote NO on this assault weapons ban. NO calls were received to support it."
Those days are long gone.
Our voices will get drowned out in the noise, now. Our ONLY tool just got turned against us.
So while you puff your chests and hem and haw on internet forums saying "We won, it's over, he can't do anything else"....
You better start writing letters. Not just a FEW of you.
ALL of you.
Because letters, and calls, and e-mails are going to be pouring in everywhere to support gun control. If your voice isn't heard LOUD today... the next use of your mouth will be to kiss it all away.
As I step down from my little soap box, preaching to the choir here, please let my words sink in. Obama may be many things, but the man is highly intelligent and knows where our weakest links are. He knows where to hit us, HOW to hit us, and he just proved it today.
Never in the history of the United States has any single man been such a threat to continued ownership of arms which give us parity against the state.
Wake up and take action.
/Rant.
Let me explain...
The SOLE defense gun owners have is grass roots campaigns, calling representatives, writing letters, e-mailing, and so on. We get no media coverage (that's positive). Meanwhile, the other side has been battering the NRA from every angle, essentially laying the dead bodies of children at their feet and saying "you caused this."
Now, we have gun owners all ranting and raving over some executive orders, which apparently do very little. We're thumping our chests and stomping about saying "See, he can't do anything."
But I urge you to look deeper in to the message delivered today.
The real power behind what Obama did wasn't in those Executive orders.
No. He called upon the American people to mobilize, to call their representatives, to write letters, to bombard their people in Washington to ask "Do you support this?" And if not, "Why?"
This is terrifying.
Why? One might ask.
Because our tactics are now being used against us, WITH the support of the media, WITH the support of the executive office. Obama flat out said "this is all I can do, the rest is up to YOU, America."
Not up to congress. Not up to senators and representatives. Not up to judges or treaties or executive orders.
He just mobilized the average citizen in to, what will become in short order, the largest lobbying group in the country. His message will be repeated on every major news outlet. Every newspaper. Every television set. Every internet site.
YOU are responsible for calling your senators. Your representatives. And demanding action.
No longer will we see what we saw in New York, where one assemblyman said "my staff informed me this morning that we received over 400 calls and e-mails calling for me to vote NO on this assault weapons ban. NO calls were received to support it."
Those days are long gone.
Our voices will get drowned out in the noise, now. Our ONLY tool just got turned against us.
So while you puff your chests and hem and haw on internet forums saying "We won, it's over, he can't do anything else"....
You better start writing letters. Not just a FEW of you.
ALL of you.
Because letters, and calls, and e-mails are going to be pouring in everywhere to support gun control. If your voice isn't heard LOUD today... the next use of your mouth will be to kiss it all away.
As I step down from my little soap box, preaching to the choir here, please let my words sink in. Obama may be many things, but the man is highly intelligent and knows where our weakest links are. He knows where to hit us, HOW to hit us, and he just proved it today.
Never in the history of the United States has any single man been such a threat to continued ownership of arms which give us parity against the state.
Wake up and take action.
/Rant.
