Green Lantern
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The "shooting community" is shrinking because prosperity has, for most Americans, turned their swords into ploughshares. The primal martial impulse has either been blunted or converted into fantasy.
I don't disagree with you at all, but I just can't fathom WHY this is the case. Because it sure looks to me like crime is MORE rampant, and MORE violent than it has ever been...
And some GOOD news on the 1st-Amendment destroying "ethics" reform the Dems are trying to pass:
Big Win in the Senate... Thanks to Your Support!
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Friday, January 19, 2007
Congratulations! You have, once again, whupped the anti-gun zealots!
As Constitution-hating senators like California's Dianne Feinstein
whined and complained, the Senate -- by a narrow largely-party-line
vote of 55-43 -- struck language which would have required GOA to
monitor and report on its communications with its members and friends
(like you).
GOA has heard reports that there was an outpouring of calls against
this anti-speech language on Capitol Hill, and that it made a huge
difference.
In addition to the massive wave of grassroots opposition, GOA was
also working in concert with key Hill players (many of them trained
by GOA) to hammer out a legislative strategy that would either result
in the death of the entire bill or, at a minimum, kill the dangerous
Section 220.
The good news came late on Thursday night when the Bennett amendment
-- which deleted this unconstitutional "grassroots lobbying"
reporting language contained in S. 1 -- was adopted by the narrow
margin mentioned above.
The war is not over. The House has yet to produce its bill in this
area -- and no one is betting that the House will "do the right
thing." But we have won what perhaps will be the most important
battle.
The 43 Senators who voted to take us down the road of more government
regulation and more restrictions on the right of free speech -- a
road that would eventually make it harder for all of us to petition
our government servants -- are listed below:
Akaka (D-HI)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
But I fail to see where the OUTRAGE is among the many, many people that couldn't give less of a crap about RKBA if they tried, BUT cherish the FIRST Amendment?
Anyway, getting back to the heart of the matter -
How's about some ideas to help get fellow gun-owners motivated to get ACTIVE in defending the 2A?
Forget converting anti's for a moment, how do I manage to show people that DO enjoy guns that they may not be able to for much longer the way things are going in this nation?
As for getting people in here, I can work on that as soon as I send this!