-=> Quoting Earnest Padgette to Steve Gunhouse <=-
 EP> The 1986 law had a lot of good things in it. 
Then perhaps you can list some of them, the ones that made it worth NRA
backing the first precedent in the history of the United States in which
govt employees banned the manufacture of _any_ category of firearm for
private consumption by the legitimate government . . . The People.  List
some "good things" that were worth backing the same precedent later used to
ban rifles/magazines . . . . .
 EP> The NRA decided to back the law, despite the bad stuff. 
As always . . . & we ended up with a rifle/magazine ban, based on that
precedent.  Machine guns doubled in cost at first, & now many have
tripled, & more!  Our children & grandchildren can forget owning any of
them, unless their name is Rockefeller.  You're the NRA, (not me).
The mighty trade-off is that now, we don't have to sign out our ammo when
we buy it.  I'd rather have machine guns, rifles & magazines.
 EP> That's one of the
 EP> reasons the folks in charge *then* aren't in charge *now*. EP
If so, then NRA would not have backed the Fascist Terror Bill most
recently.
 
 EP> The bad part about attempting to communicate your position on
 EP> legislation is the legislation it'self changes radically and
 EP> rapidly. You don't often get the finished bill and sufficient
 EP> time to examine it closely. Amendments are often added almost
 EP> as the votes are being taken. EP
All the better reason to oppose it from the first, instead of diddling
around with it & winding up supporting unlawful "legislation" as a
compromise.  It's the Synthesis, or, the product of the Conflict of
Opposites that NRA takes a major part in.
 
 EP> Thanks for the support, Steve. We're doing the best we can.
You are doing the best you can . . . . to do what?!  Obviously not to
support the 2nd Amend.  As you recall, the 2nd says the individual's
private access to current arms "shall not be infringed."  That means no
dealer licenses, no 4473's, no Form 4's, no multiple sales reports . . .
and most of all, The Supreme Law Of The Land means NO COMPROMISE. 
Everytime NRA compromises it is actively working _against_ The Law.
Now I don't fault you personally . . . at least not yet, as you just got on
The Board.  However, if you don't immediately start working against NRA
participating as the Anti-Thesis in the Conflict of Opposites (until they
throw you off the board), you will also become a tool of the Hegelican
dialectic process of International Fascism.
--- Blue Wave v2.12 [NR]
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