NRA NEEDS TO STEP UP WITH ITS OWN BACKGROUND CHECK PROPOSAL

I dropped my longtime NRA membership years ago when Wayne LaPierre opposed any laws banning ‘cop killer bullets.’

The NRA’s annual convention is now being held in Houston. Notable speakers will include Tea Party favorites Sarah Palin and Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Rick Perry, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

Second Amendment warrior Ted Nugent will be there to get the NRA faithful all fired up. Of course, most of them are not aware that Nugent went out of his way to dodge service as a warrior in the Vietnam War by shitting in his pants for days on end.

I believe that for the most part, the NRA does a good job standing up for our Second Amendment rights. I’m a multiple gun owner and I don’t want the government to tell me what kind of guns or how many guns I can buy and own, or what size magazines I can buy and own. And I don’t want the government – federal, state or local – to have a registry listing my guns.

I also believe that the NRA has done an outstanding job putting its money behind pro-gun political office holders and candidates and against anti-gun political office holders and candidates.

I think the NRA would be seen much more favorably by the non-gun owning public if it stopped being against every bit of legislation that by the furthest stretch of the imagination might be construed as interfering with our Second Amendment rights, such as the aforementioned cop killer bullets.

In view of all the uproar over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and other mass shootings, why can’t the NRA head the anti-gunners off at the pass by coming up with its own expanded background check proposal? It just isn’t enough to say that everything would be hunky dory if only the government would just enforce existing gun control laws.

If the NRA were to ask Congress to pass an expanded background check proposal that it put together, it would not please President Obama, VP Joe Biden and most Democrats, but it would stand a good chance of becoming law. That would calm down the Sandy Hook survivors and others like Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly. And if the NRA did that, I would probably rejoin in a hot New York minute.