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#1 GET REAL
#2 I AGREE with you in principle...but GET REAL! Ain't gonna happen!
#3 The NRA handed the election to BUSH. Gore and Clinton have publicly accepted this. So should you. In fact, I believe that all those onerous evil bills to which you allude actually served as an important wake up call to all gun owners and they are not set into stone...having a SUNSET clause which will cause them to automatically expire. Think the NRA is going to allow their renewal? See the first sentence of #3 above.
#4 Is the NRA the final answer to our gun control problems? Of course not...I personally like the Gun Owners of America better...but I'll throw them more support when THEY get over 4 MILLION members! In the meantime, see the first sentence of #3 above.
#5 NOW is the time to take the offensive (in a REAL ...not fantasy manner) in a legislative sense. We need to be putting pressure on Congress to pass a federal law that makes state concealed weapons permits reciprocal between states IAW the 2nd Amendment and more importantly the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the 14th Amendment so that just as our DRIVERS LICENSES are good in all states (the binding precedent) so too, should our gun permits be recognized. This should be done as an adjunct to any "Homeland Defense Bill" Congress decides to enact...this is of course a matter of national security.

"We need to be putting pressure on Congress to pass a federal law that makes state concealed weapons permits reciprocal between states IAW the 2nd Amendment and more importantly the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the 14th Amendment so that just as our DRIVERS LICENSES are good in all states (the binding precedent) so too, should our gun permits be recognized."

The 2nd amendment, as written by our Founding Fathers is REAL, all else is fantasy.
Text of the Second Amendment
"A well regulated Militia
being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

How Did the Founders Understand the Second Amendment?

just as our DRIVERS LICENSES are good in all states (the binding precedent) so too, should our gun permits be recognized.

And yet, we shouldn't need any permit whatsoever!. Do I need a state-issued permit to practice my religion? Do I need a permit to breathe?

When I was working on President Bush's campaign here locally, I manned the Pubbie booth at the local county fair. The thing that just amazed me was the number of people who came up and voiced their support for Bush over the gun issue!
Many said they had never supported a Republican before, but that they knew Gore would take away their guns.
This was not one or two people, it was many!
You are so right, the NRA helped put Bush in the White HOuse, that is for sure!