Has the NRA Won?

[Raoul]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/opinion/charles-blow-has-the-nra-won.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

 

This is an interesting development.

This op ed guy is a real jack wagon, but this story brings up some very interesting points.

[hipower]

I'd love to say "Yes" but would be very cautious in doing so. In actuality, it's probably a temporary draw at best.

[MacGyver]

There's always somebody who's going to want some more of our cake...

[Raoul]

Well it's definitely only one battle in a log war

[mikegideon]

I sure do enjoy every frustration they have to endure. The war on guns really sucks. But watching them lose is kinda fun.

[K191145]

Well it's definitely only one battle in a log war

 

Whaaat, now they are going after chainsaws?  :)

[K191145]

I'd love to say "Yes" but would be very cautious in doing so. In actuality, it's probably a temporary draw at best.

 

Part of it is that the Obama administration has really given a great example of what left wing liberals real agenda, to take ALL our gun rights away. I think many people who only own 1 gun or none are scared by the notion that there is a real agenda, not just to impliment what liberals call, "common sense gun control" but an all out war against citizens owning any guns whatsoever. They have seen through the BS for the first time.

[kieefer]

As long as there are gun-restrictions they haven't won and neither have We.

[Randall53]

I find the mindset that it's the NRA's fault totally assanine when in fact, it's obvious that many people are suddenly seeing the need to own a gun for protection by simply looking at the news and seeing the violence brazenly occurring everywhere at all times of the day and night. Home invasion, car jacking, Individuals and flash mobs destroying stores and beating innocent people senseless, or even to death, the "knockout game" etc.....and participants looking into the camera laughing and telling the news they are doing it because it's "fun". It's not the NRA's fault that in millions of peoples minds the fog is clearing and the light is coming on. Edited April 21, 2015 by Randall53

[Pete123]

We haven't won. Federally, we are looking good, so they are going to states.

[JohnC]

I don't count anything as a "win" really on the 2A issue. :meh:

 

We just fought them off for now. They'll be back with new strategies, lies, excuses, propaganda and other tragedies to exploit to attempt to pass restrictions and bans on 2A rights. 

 

Just as much progress toward a restoration of 2A rights as we've made now, can just as easily be revoked by the next left-wing majority in congress or even here at the state level.

 

The fight for 2A rights will be a constant one.

Edited April 21, 2015 by JohnC

[Gliderman166]

It's not just about our gun rights.
It's about preserving our liberty .
The 2nd Amendment protects the rest.
Freedom is not free, we must remain forever vigilant to restrain those who would enslave us.

[TSprint1]

Won? Maybe some battles but surely not the war.......

[LagerHead]

I wouldn't land a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier and throw up the "Mission Accomplished" banner just yet. When in the same article a "journalist" can clearly show that the majority of Americans are against more gun control and then state, "polls showed about 90 percent public approval for expanded background checks," you know there is more work to do. It's mildly amusing watching them regurgitate the anti-gun talking points so thoughtlessly that make themselves look like asses, but since the New York Times is a "respectable" news organization, many people take them seriously. Why I will never know.

[bersaguy]

It's not just about our gun rights.
It's about preserving our liberty .
The 2nd Amendment protects the rest.
Freedom is not free, we must remain forever vigilant to restrain those who would enslave us.

"Those who pound their guns into a plows, will soon plow for those who don't"!!!!   Thomas Jefferson

[E4 No More]

For those that missed it, "One may begrudge and bemoan the fact, but it is hard to deny it: the N.R.A. appears to be winning this round."