I don’t like gun legislation at all-don’t get me wrong,but as I understand this the law already exists and has for a long time-this just makes involuntary commitments available on a background check-I agree Cho would’ve gotten to carry out his plan whether or not he could legally purchase a firearm-the worst school killing in US history was carried out in 1927 in Holland,Michigan using dynamite-the killer was a man named Keogh(sp?)-48 ,mostly young children were killed-a determined crazy will find a way-my personal attitude about GOA vs.NRA is that NRA(i am a member)has been in the fight a good long while and I don’t think they’re sellouts as some in GOA have alleged-I respect anyone’s choice of pro-gun group,but I’d as soon “dance with the one that brung ya”
I tried to stop this GOA against the NRA stuff since I’ve been a member of FR. I even met Larry Pratt and found him to be a decent guy.
No longer. The GOA isn’t trying to stop any gun control since they have never had a track record of doing anything. It seems they think they can simply expand their numbers by complaining about the NRA and taking some members. They must think there are only a set amount of gun activists and in order to get more money they have to get those members from the NRA.
Compare emails from the NRA and the GOA. The NRA doesn’t even acknowledge the GOA exists. Not so with the GOA. That no compromise ad slogan might as well say they don’t do anything except complain about other gun groups.
My boss doesn’t pay me for good intentions. He pays me for results. I don’t give out blue ribbons to ten year old just because they showed up.
I don’t pay money to the NRA because of a snappy slogan. I pay them because they defeated gore in 2000, passed Castle Doctine, passed CCW laws, passed the gun manufacturer’s protection act, lend legal protection in sixty cases a year and fight to keep gunranges open.
No one can ever tell me what the GOA has ever accomplished on their own. No one.
Yep, it does, called the Brady Act, passed in '93 after Clinton became President. Somehow we got along without it before then, at a time when there were a lot more gun dealers, when guns could be bought through the mail from the Sears and Wards catalogs. When even "convenience stores" (that is "gas stations, like 7-11 only more local) sold ammunition and sometimes guns as well. When even Target sold ammunition and accouterments. And you could also buy gun in many hardware stores. Now, thanks again to Clintoon, when we have many fewer places to buy guns, and have to jump through more hoops to do so, we have all these school shootings, and other incidents of mass murder.
The law is not written in stone and need not be expanded just because it can be. We fought it then, or many of us did anyway, and we'll fight it now.