I joined the NRA.Charles L. Cotton wrote: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.
Senate doesn't count anyway. They have to do something the House would agree to.
There is going to have to be some new restriction passed, so everyone can say, see we did something, we care. It will be called the "Sandy Hook Bill".
I would prefer if we came up with the new restrictions, for the "Sandy Hook Bill", here are my suggestions:
Federal requirement for dead bolt locks in steel frames on all school class room doors. ( I still haven't found out if the Sandy Hook classrooms had locks, but it didn't sound like it.)
Federal requirement to improve mental health record sharing by states into background check. Tie DEA record keeping for certain controlled substances into background check.
Federal requirement prohibiting private gun sales within five miles of a "gun show". Thus closing the "gun show" loophole the left seem so concerned about.
Federal law exempting school employees who are CHL's from any federal law prohibiting campus carry as long as they carry concealed on their person.
Federal standardization on CHL training and testing for all states, but once achieved a 50 state concealed carry by licensed CHL's.
A business who bans legal CHL from their property, will be liable for gun violence on their property. A business who does not ban legal CHL will not be liable for actions of a licensed CHL.
That's my list.