And that moment when The Second Amendment Foundation lost me as member.
“The gun rights lobby has to wake up and realize we need to lead, not follow,” the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation and the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms told Guns.com in an interview at the at the NRA’s 143rd Annual Meetings and Exhibits in downtown Indianapolis last weekend.
Gottlieb’s desire to strike a deal on an enhanced background check measure that would cover private sales made over the Internet and at gun shows is based on the premise that fighting UBCs is a losing battle over the long run.
via Gottlieb: Gun rights lobby needs to lead, not follow on background checks (VIDEO).
We had a nice discussion about this in Facebook yesterday. Although he might be somewhat right, the timing and the wording could not be any worse. The issue is that for many of us, the mentioning of the words Background Checks is immediately associated with the infamous Manchin-Toomey-Schummer Universal background bill that was Rosemary’s Baby trying to be passed as the Gerber Baby. And it does not help either that Mr. Gottlieb was also involved temporarily in that spawn and his reputation was tarnished by it.
The comment also feels defeatist. Yes, Bloomberg has many millions and a great PR company, but he just simply does not have the numbers as in people backing his side. And yes he has the Media but unless they hire the best hackers to create millions of Facebook and Twitter personas, they are only so many who can come up and take over Social Media. It is not gonna be an easy fight, but I know we will win it. Just look at the different legislatures, how many Anti Gun bills were presented and how very few passed compare with pro-gun bills that did pass.
Mr. Gottlieb should have waited till he had a firm proposition to present to all of us and not some generic platitude. We have a good base in what was the Coburn Amendment which is a good first step.
I may touch ion this later.