Who Reads This Politics Secton Anyway?

[roysclockgun]

For those of you already active, I appolgize. For those who are still complacent, get moving now! This is so critically important that it should be posted in the most read sections of this site:

Does anyone know how our contacts to Pols are going? What sort of effect can we expect against the deluge of action being caused in the news media by antis?
The only voice we have is when we contact pols on our own, as we are largely being ignored by the popular news media.

80,000,000 gun owners would be able to control both houses of congress, if we formed a solid front and pushed the issues forward that we want and defeated the opposition. Why not? Are you part of the pro-active gun lobby? If not get going now! Today!!
This is so easy. Just go to the links listed below and be heard. Every contact from us will help our cause, in terms of stopping more useless "gun legislation"!

Find and Contact your Representative in the US House by Zip Code:
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Contact Your Senators :
http://www.senate.gov/

Steve Ashe

 

[DrMike]

Good shove, Steven. Unfortunately, as an ex-pat, I have little influence with either Congressmen or Senators. I can, however, vote for President (and have done so faithfully since leaving the States). Each one reading your message should take it to heart.

 

[Oldtrader3]

As a resident, I have little impact on our local pols either. Most of whom have a very strong anti-hunting and anti-gun agenda which I doubt they have ever even thought about why they feel that way, let alone discuss it. I write our two female Senators fairly regularly. However, their only agenda is Women's Rights (abortion) and we are on opposite polls morally on that one. I get form letters back, talking about their latest pet pork project but no substantive response ever about what I wrote to them to discuss.

 

[DrMike]

But you do write, Charlie, and if all shooters/hunters wrote they would temper their opposition to sensible, moral, reasoned positions.

 

[roysclockgun]

"but no substantive response ever about what I wrote to them to discuss."

I hear you Oldtrader. However, "the pen is mightier than is the sword!" That quote extends today to email messages and to a lessor degree, phone calls.
If your anti gun state pols were deluged with mail from their constituants, I guarantee they would change lanes, before risking losing the next election.
Complacency and doubts I hear like, "what good can it do?", all play into the antis hands. The antis are far from complacent. This especially for people who do not have a life, so they run around trying to spoil everyone elses fun by trying to ban everything from booze, to smokes and especially "guns!"
Our side, which by the count of gun owners in this country, should be an army 80,000,000 strong. Sadly we thus far, lack the glue to pull us together. Trap shooters, antique arms collectors, trappers, archers, pllinkers, Bird Dog fanciers, fox hunters, etc., etc., should all be on the same side of putting the skids to pols. like Feinstein and her ilk. If all of us who can see the next round of anti gun laws coming down, would just contact their pols and enlist at least one other gun owner to do the same, we can win this thing.
Believe me, the antis are rubbing their hands together as we speak, and preparing to come at us heavy, right after the holidays.
We no longer have the luxury of time to argue over which firearms supporting org is best for us. Just join and work to be a PAC against more anti gun laws now, however one chooses to do that.
For years, we have fallen back on the 2nd Amendment, which is still a valid document, in terms of citing the fact that gun and ammo ownership is a right in this country. But, the antis are attacking the meaning of the 2nd Amendment in ever stronger terms. Lawyers can interpret any writing in which ever way they care to twist word meaning. Those with the most money and the most political support will win. We can't say we will keep our gun rights, simply because, "it has always been that way!" Today, we are still in the majority in the this country, but we need to wield the power that we possess NOW!
Believe me, my friends in Australia and New Zealand were extremely regretful, that they did not fight harder to keep their lever actions, pumps and semi-autos, not to mention their handguns. Before they became argry enough to work against the turn-ins, it was too late. Don't allow yourself to be in the same boat with the Australians and New Zealanders.
Steve Ashe

 

[CMBTshooter]

My letters are in the mail!

 

[BeeTee]

The first assault weapons ban and the one being proposed are directly responsible for millions of new guns being sold - the exact opposite result for those who propose such legislation. The first AWB cost the Dems both houses of Congress in 1994 - a fact that needs to be pointed out to any politician.