I received a fund raising call from the NRA last night.
Some guy with a southern accent, (not that there is anything wrong with that) is on the horn going on about UN gun control efforts, George Soros, and Rebecca Peters, blah, blah, blah. I interrupt him.
“Do you know how a treaty gets ratified?” I ask.
Silence.
I give a mini lecture, “The President signs it and the Senate ratifies it. No way, no how is Bush going to sign off on small arms controls that abrogate the Second, let alone would the Senate ratify it. Good night.”
I have long been of the opinion that the NRA is more interested in easy self-promotion than it is in a serious battle to restore full American gun rights. This entire “anti-UN antis” program just underscores the way that they always identify the easiest way to appear to be doing something without actually doing much of anything.
Ambassador John Bolton, by himself, is doing everything the NRA could be doing at the UN. Why on earth isn’t the NRA finishing the job at home before chasing off irrelevant antis from abroad?
There are 1989 restrictions that need lifting. There is 1986 legislation that needs repealing. There is the 1968 GCA that needs serious gutting. There are states messing with the design of guns, to the detriment of buyers nationwide, in need of being stopped in their tracks. Trick is that those goals are hard and bashing ineffectual international antis is easy.
I am through with the NRA until they gain some serious domestic focus. One lawsuit pre-emption bill isn’t enough payback for my years of prior financial support.
The NRA should find some stones or just disband.
Some guy with a southern accent, (not that there is anything wrong with that) is on the horn going on about UN gun control efforts, George Soros, and Rebecca Peters, blah, blah, blah. I interrupt him.
“Do you know how a treaty gets ratified?” I ask.
Silence.
I give a mini lecture, “The President signs it and the Senate ratifies it. No way, no how is Bush going to sign off on small arms controls that abrogate the Second, let alone would the Senate ratify it. Good night.”
I have long been of the opinion that the NRA is more interested in easy self-promotion than it is in a serious battle to restore full American gun rights. This entire “anti-UN antis” program just underscores the way that they always identify the easiest way to appear to be doing something without actually doing much of anything.
Ambassador John Bolton, by himself, is doing everything the NRA could be doing at the UN. Why on earth isn’t the NRA finishing the job at home before chasing off irrelevant antis from abroad?
There are 1989 restrictions that need lifting. There is 1986 legislation that needs repealing. There is the 1968 GCA that needs serious gutting. There are states messing with the design of guns, to the detriment of buyers nationwide, in need of being stopped in their tracks. Trick is that those goals are hard and bashing ineffectual international antis is easy.
I am through with the NRA until they gain some serious domestic focus. One lawsuit pre-emption bill isn’t enough payback for my years of prior financial support.
The NRA should find some stones or just disband.