ConstitutionCowboy
member
Regardless of the supposed good HR 2640 will accomplish, it supports the NICS which is unconstitutional to begin with. I oppose this bill. I'm appalled that the NRA has come out in support of this bill and I wish to do something about it.
Since the NRA is the most effective voice we have right now, rather than pulling my membership and support from the NRA, I seek to find out who in the NRA is responsible for this decision, vote them out of power, and replace them with NRA members who will stand up for our rights and pressure Congress and the Court to abide the Constitution.
I have enclosed a copy of the email I sent to the NRA, seeking a list of those who are responsible for that decision. I encourage all who wish the NRA to be more attuned to our rights to do the same. If enough of us make such a demand, the powers that be at the NRA just might cough up that list. Remember folks, it's OUR NRA. WE pay for the activities of the NRA with our membership dues, contributions, and purchases.
Woody
Look at your rights and freedoms as what would be required to survive and be free as if there were no government. Governments come and go, but your rights live on. If you wish to survive government, you must protect with jealous resolve all the powers that come with your rights - especially with the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Without the power of those arms, you will perish with that government - or at its hand. B.E. Wood
Since the NRA is the most effective voice we have right now, rather than pulling my membership and support from the NRA, I seek to find out who in the NRA is responsible for this decision, vote them out of power, and replace them with NRA members who will stand up for our rights and pressure Congress and the Court to abide the Constitution.
I have enclosed a copy of the email I sent to the NRA, seeking a list of those who are responsible for that decision. I encourage all who wish the NRA to be more attuned to our rights to do the same. If enough of us make such a demand, the powers that be at the NRA just might cough up that list. Remember folks, it's OUR NRA. WE pay for the activities of the NRA with our membership dues, contributions, and purchases.
Dear NRA,
HR 2640, regardless of all the supposed good it will do, is still part of unconstitutional law. Supporting this bill is no better than passing any other unconstitutional law. All this bill does is increase the dependence upon unconstitutional law to supposedly prevent criminal activity instead of forcing law enforcement and the judicial system to keep violent criminals and the mentally incompetent or untrustworthy off the streets. Preventing crime is nearly impossible. Being armed to address crime as it happens is the best way to handle crime. This is one case where the ounce of prevention is worthless compared to the pound of cure that is needed to save lives and preserve property when criminals are determined to ply their trade.
It isn't up to us here in the NRA to provide for, or support, solutions to the judicial system that enables them to shirk their responsibilities to keep those adjudicated untrustworthy either institutionalized or imprisoned; or to execute those adjudicated as irredeemable and dangerous. The only thing NICS does is "allow" the court to release dangerous criminals from prison by forcing everyone to pass a background check before they can buy or carry an arm in the hopes that the NICS will keep arms out of the hands of the violent criminals. We all know how well that works, don't we!
I seriously considered no longer supporting the NRA when it comes out in favor of such misguided endeavors as the NICS. But then I remember it's MY National Rifle Association. I would rather address the internal solution - that being the firing of all those who voted in what ever committee or executive session that made the decision to support this bill.
Please forward to me the names and positions held of all employees of the National Rifle Association who had a hand in the decision to support HR 2640. If you include the names and positions of all members of any such committee or executive board, please include how they cast their votes so that I may be able to single out those who voted in support of this bill. It is my wish to mount a campaign to vote these people out of their positions, and to campaign for NRA members who will support the Right to Keep and Bear Arms AS PROTECTED by the Second Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America.
Bruce Wood
CC: TheHighRoad, USA Carry
Woody
Look at your rights and freedoms as what would be required to survive and be free as if there were no government. Governments come and go, but your rights live on. If you wish to survive government, you must protect with jealous resolve all the powers that come with your rights - especially with the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Without the power of those arms, you will perish with that government - or at its hand. B.E. Wood