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I agree. Howver, I get a little disillusioned w/ the NRA at times. While they do an EXCELLENT, and I do mean EXCELLENT job at gun safety and education, their sell-out nature in the political arena gets frustrating. They called me up once asking me to donate money to support the lawsuit against the campagin-finance law. I told the very nice, but quite condescending lady on the phone, that if the NRA would actually sue on 2nd Amendment grounds, I'd think about donating extra money. I told her that the intentions of the founding fathers, as demonstrated in the federalist and anti-federalist arguments; and in their private papers, show that the 2nd amendment supports individual ownership and bearing of arms. Even liberals like Larry Tribe from harvard have admitted this. Get a Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court. Needless to say, she had no answer.

If the 2nd Amendement was as unassailable as the 1st Amendment, Wayne LaPierre would have a much lower expense account.

I used to be a member of Keep-and-Bear-Arms.com. It's generally a good organization w/ good people, but they seem a touch tin-foil-hattish at times.

When the residents of Morton Grove Illinois tried to bring their case before the Supreme Court, the court refused to hear the case. Reality is that either the court refuses to hear the case or we would lose. The NRA isn't the only group out there. If it was so easy to bring a case before the court, why hasn't another group done so?
KeepandBearArms.com is way out there. They're another group that has a special column where all they do is whine about the NRA. Right now, they're upset that Ashcroft didn't pay attention to their petition. They had 20,000 signatures. I have news for them. If they paid a little attention to the other groups they would know that petitions are sent out all the time. I must have signed dozens of them from the NRA or other groups.