In the dark days of December 2012, following the Sandy Hook school
massacre, Wayne LaPierre told the media that the NRA wanted to offer “meaningful
contributions” to school safety. The mainstream media salivated like dogs,
expecting LaPierre to finally get on board with draconian gun control. Instead,
he said that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a
gun. The NRA proposed armed guards in school and Congressional funding for
armed school police officers.
The media was overwhelmed and mocked the suggestion.
Congress instead pushed forward with a slate of gun control bills, including
the Manchin-Toomey bill that the NRA actually helped write behind the scenes.
Miraculously, none of the gun control went forward. Americans had already come
to the conclusion that gun control was the problem. From then on, campus carry
was the hot issue; allowing teachers, parents, and college students to shoot
back.
The NRA had it’s hand in every major gun control defeat in
100 years. In the 1930s, they compromised on the National Firearms Act to save
pistols, which they did, but gave up everything else. There was no organization
to send an attorney to represent gun owners in the Miller case. From then on, and especially in 1994 with the Assault
Weapons Ban, the NRA compromised.
Now the NRA and its defenders would argue this was to save
something; staunch opposition with no give would have resulted in worse. Instead,
the NRA basically gave up its second-best looking daughter to the marauding
band so it could keep the number one daughter unmolested. Today, the NRA was so
afraid of machine guns being banned and more bad legislation (AWB, mag restrictions,
etc.) in the wake of the October 1 attack that they sold bump fire up the
river.
No, the NRA isn’t playing some grand game of strategic, 3D
chess. They are doing what they have always done; compromise and lose. Being
tone-deaf to the American public and their members, the NRA instead listened to
the whining of the Bloomberg-ites, the media, and wishy-washy anti-gun
politicians. All of the above hates the NRA; nothing will change that. Throwing
bump fire to the wolves was not a delaying tactic to save the family, it was
giving the wolves an appetizer.
The NRA opposed the landmark Heller case that affirmed the Second Amendment applies outside the
home; not because they disagreed with their ideals, but because they were
afraid that a negative Heller decision—the
opposite of what we got—would eliminate the right to carry. They were afraid of
losing. People might argue about strategy and risk, but you’ll never win the
Superbowl if you don’t show up in Minneapolis.
The NRA is like a beaten down dog that keeps licking Master’s
hand, hoping that Master will stop beating and kicking it. When you’ve been on
the defensive for nearly a century, you don’t know what victory is anymore. All
you know is compromise and loss. So like a cuckhold husband who feels “empowered”
watching another man sleep with his wife, the NRA is a willing accomplice to the
gun control agenda.
When the NRA is weak, it gives spineless politicians
political cover. Countless politicians have parroted the NRA’s line about bump
fire stocks instead of saying “Shall not be infringed.” Now is precisely the
time to get loud, get angry, and absolutely humiliate and shame the Democrats
and the Bloomberg Kool-Aid drinkers for lumping millions of gun owners in the
same boat with that perverted SOB Paddock. Rather than standing firm and proud
with “four million” members and a bunch more behind them, the NRA cowers, begs,
and pleads. “Take my daughters, but don’t hurt me! No, my wife doesn’t cheat on
me; other men are just a fetish we have.”
If the NRA is full of such cowards at a time when support
for gun rights is at its highest in modern times, what will they do when we
have a hostile president and Congress? It’s almost as if they are afraid that
the Second Amendment will have to be used for its intended purpose. When that
day comes, you can bet the bunch from Reston won’t be in the lead.
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