I just wanted to clear up a point that the anti-civil rights crowd keeps bringing up.
I don't do the NRA's bidding. The NRA, to a greater or lesser extent, does the bidding of its membership. When they don't do what we (as individuals) want, we (as individuals) let them know that they're not acting in accordance with our wishes (if we choose to tell them). Sure, they try to keep us informed, all gun owners — both members and non-members — and they certainly try to influence us to act in certain ways (primarily through the NRA PVF and NRA ILA.
But there's something you anti-civil rights people don't understand: those of us who are activists to one extent or another are critical thinkers. We generally don't unhesitatingly follow whatever we're "told" to do by the NRA. Even that idea is laughable, because for most of us, if the NRA were to assume to dictate to us how to act or what to say, we'd turn right around and tell them where to stick it. Sheep we are not.
We're sheepdogs, in more ways than one. I support the NRA because they're the biggest, most active advocate for our right to have and use guns. But that support isn't blind, and I keep an eye on them as much as I do on those who would disarm me.
