One man walked into Sandy Hook Elementary and murdered 20 children and 6 adults. Therefore, would you agree with the statement that "all gun owners will murder children?" That's what one does when you say "Republicans sold us out" when in reality only a few individuals are talking. It doesn't help our cause nor bolster the courage of the rest of the Republicans who are on our side of this issue when they lumped in with others who either do not share their zeal or commitment.atticus wrote:Sorry to be disagreeable, Froggie, but what else can one conclude when a Republican expresses willingness to foster gun registration via background checks? Would YOU offer to sit down and discuss it with the Democrats, knowing their long-standing gun confiscation agenda? Given the pattern of Republican cave-ins over the past decades, it's not ingenuous to declare that they are just talking. Republican does not equal conservative on the national level, not since Reagan. Has the Republican congressional leadership welcomed tea-party freshmen congressmen? no sir. The Republicans express embarrassment when Ted Cruz (another tea party senator) leads the fight. Who's being disingenuous here? It's not disingenuous to suggest that the old Rockefeller wing of the Republican party, who is definitely in charge of the party, does not represent the best interests of Americans' right to keep and bear arms.
If we gun owners don't join the NRA and raise our ranks to 20+ million Members and do it quickly, the day may come when we can blast Republicans (plural), but we are not there now and painting with far too broad of a brush hurts our efforts to save the Second Amendment.
Chas.