Opinion
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Dears Senator/Representative:
Every time a tragedy happens, you steal a slice of our rights. A silver here, a shaving there. The result is always the same. We lose our rights for meaningless laws that will not make anyone safer or criminals less dangerous. You sell our right as a PR stunt to win votes.
Fine, we all accept that sometimes that needs to happen. But how about you include OUR needs and wants as part of your bipartisan compromise. How about us (The 120,000,000 American gun owners) get our needs addressed. How about we cut a deal?
Background Checks: Sure on all sales of new or used firearms. But we want national insta-check. We want what you originally promised us. That at any gun store or police station, we can walk-in and clear the transfer in 10 minutes. You can still give a gun to a family member or lend a gun to a friend for a day’s shooting. If we do this, we want an end to waiting periods too.
You want Red Flag: We agree, but there MUST be safeguards. Phony claims must be prosecuted; guns confiscated for legitamte claims may be held no more than 60 days. The purpose of Red Flag is to keep people safe not to punish gun owners. In that 60 day period, you’ll have time for a proper hearing. Penalize any State that exceeds these limits with real consequences.
We want CCW reciprocity. Complete a 16-hour course (The new NRA CCW course will do thank you), and you can carry anywhere in the country.
Declare all AR variants firearms ”in common use.” Better yet simply define in common use as any firearms with 1 million or more in use. End waiting period for firearms.
Any illegal alien who tries to buy a firearm should be jailed and then deported.
So – Stop selling us down the river with the assumption we’ll always be there for you, we won’t. We did not come out for Bush 41, McCain or Romney. Sell us out and well stay home in November 2020.
Got it? Give back some rights and protections for those that you bargain away.
Gun control is about scaring suburban women into voting for democrats. Renovation of the gun laws is about modernizing how guns are managed in our country.
Yours,
Don McDougall
After thoughts:
I know some of you will say no compromise, no surrender. The fact is we can do two things. Get a balance of things we want or lose it all. You blast the NRA when they build compromises, but there is a simple fact. We can get more than we give. We might with this battle, but unless we forge some common ground, we will lose the war. We need more youth shooting, more support for The Friends of the NRA. We need more high school programs and college scholarships. We need to teach the 2A to the next generation.
Right now Wayne LaPierre is the “Mad King” dismantling the NRA so to cling to power while our rights burn. (I had a Nero comparison but went with G.O.T. instead.) We’re on our own. This will be Wayne’s legacy, as the man who sold out American gun owners for his own wealth. He will burn in hell for what he’s doing. I am comforted by the knowledge that in the end, we are all dust.
Here is the site to be able to e-mail your representative, you can use the letter above as a model or write your own. Be polite and professional. At the end of the day, we have the constitution and the people on our side. Do not let cowards give away our rights. To do that, YOU personally must get active. God bless you and god protect our republic.
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About Don McDougall
Don McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of the NRA” committee. If he’s not at the range, you will find him setting the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
Benjamin Franklin once said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” McDougal? In this day and age? THIS makes you a PUSSY! No compromise! Not now, not ever. Time to push back harder! And, the “New NRA CCW Course”? Are you freaking kidding is? Consult with the over 22 MILLION combat trained Veterans in how to shoot! EVERY “course” I ever had to attend, I was always called out to reach the way the U.S. Marines, “do it?” You suck at being a brown noser and you have absolutely… Read more »
Totally wrong.
Actual answer: Shall, Not. Be. Infringed.
Molon Labe
Red flag laws should and must be found unconstitutional. If there is imminent danger or a creditable threat the police already have the right to act on it. I understand that we all want to prevent nutjobs from committing horrific crimes, but I cannot support taking away our individual liberties to do so…
We have the 4th, 5th and 6th ammendments that guarantee our rights, so that the government can’t just take our property without probably cause, when a nameless person reports someone that may own a gun. Our 2nd ammendment rights must be protected.
Dear, GOP
Despite what is articulated in this article, I do not agree with much of anything said here.
Here’s the simple fact, the Second Amendment does one thing, limits the government on all thing regarding Arms.
Therefore, every current gun control law is unconstitutional, all future gun control laws are unconstitutional. So quit breaking the law by passing unconstitutional regulations.
No law will prevent someone who wants to do something bad from doing it.
Talk about flipping… No, no more, not one inch! Restore our rights, all of them. Get rid of NFA, GCA 68, and the 86 abomination. I am tired of sellouts, and this Life Member is tired of the NRA negotiating away our freedoms.
UBC’s are de facto gun registration, it will not work without it; so, no. You may give away all of your rights you wish Don, but you may not give away mine. I see nothing in your proposal that criminals will obey. How about it, how will you force criminals to register their guns?
I dont accept that something needs to happen. There’s an old saying,the path to hell is paved with good intentions, doing something to do something is idiotic.
You do not speak for everyone, we do not want red flag laws. You cannot have one right and not another. Red flag laws violate due process and the Second Amendment. We do want National reciprocity, but forced training is not something you should have on a right, otherwise it’s just a privilege. I agree that every responsible gun owner should seek training, but it should not be mandatory. If our lawmakers want people to have training so badly then they should offer government-funded training classes so that people who can barely afford to get by can still get training… Read more »
NFW!! Repeal all 23,000+ INFRINGEMENTS across the nation, leaving the only legitimate gun law, that restricts government…The Second Amendment.
Anything less is unacceptable to this peaceable (for now) citizen.
Definitely not with you here. Making deals that allow gun control is not just stupid and how we got here in the first place, it’s a betrayal of the Constitution and our core values.