The National Rifle Association, its time to do more.

There was a time when this was enough, but these are not "those times".

Our country is under assault, and those who do not see or fear what is
going on, or believe otherwise, will be equally harmed.

Concerned Americans are at a lose of what to do. They can't depend on
elected officials, most who are complicit with much of what is occurring.
Even the rare politician who is outraged is immediately ostracized, even
shunned by some colleagues as Sen. Ted Cruz was.

Americans who revere the Constitution and particularly the Bill of Rights
see  the damage being done by all three branches of government and
feel the frustration that so little is being done to stop it, which brings me
to the National Rifle Association.

Traditionally, the National Rifle Association  "sticks to its knitting",
by protecting the rights of gun owners, rarely veering too far from
defending the Second Amendment.

The only hope for those of us is a formidable, organized group to
engage the threat. And there is none better than the National Rifle
Association with its five million members, people who are more
than members, they are serious about necessity to protect our nation.

The NRA has fought and won every attempt to repeal the Second
Amendment. It has the experience of engaging politicians with success,
something unorganized constituencies could never do.

The hope which came with the emergence of the Tea Party movement
was short lived, even after the success in the 2010 and 2014 mid-term
Congressional elections. New  members were told "their place", treated
as disrespected step children and instructed to go along to get along.

Unless something is done now those who want to 'transform' the United
States as President Obama campaigned on doing will defeat us and the
president can boldly state, "Mission Accomplished".

The NRA can be that "force", sorely needed to fight these threats to
American law, individual rights and liberty, even our country's traditions,
all at great risk.

The NRA knows it will forever be in the "cross hairs" as Leftists will not
stop until the Second Amendment becomes toothless. But, its protection
is not all that is at risk. While protecting an individual's right to bear arms
is important, so are the other rights and liberties we cherish.

While the NRA jumps into action when politicians rail about "two many
guns" and advance more restrictive gun laws, it goes into hibernation on
issues that do not threaten the Second Amendment.

The NRA can engage to protect what the Founders wanted for posterity,
not what politicians want at the moment and quickly cast aside when they
find existing laws only a nuisance to ignore.

It is a national and even moral imperative the NRA do more, protect the
entire Constitution, not only the Second Amendment.

This is not to say the NRA should become all things to all constituencies,
but when the threats to American law, our country's traditions and
individual rights and liberty are at risk, there is an important role for it
to pay.

What can the NRA do?  With five million members it can do a lot. Its can
actively stand with groups who see the damage, whether it is about civil
liberties of citizens harassed by the IRS, people losing properties to the
gutted protection of emanate domain, the failure of the federal government
to enforce immigration laws, churches forced to forgo their own religious
edicts to comply with federal mandates. and so much more.  All are equally
worthy as the Second Amendment to be protected.

Yes, there are groups organized to combat the butchery at Planned Parenthood
and the failures of members of Congress to keep their oath to office. But, none
can do it alone. No matter the issues it is the government with its well-funded
allies on the Left that will attack to end any resistance.

The government may not be able to take away the tens of millions of guns,
but it may not have to. It can take away the will to fight when all seems to be
lost making the Second Amendment nothing more than a 'piece of paper' as
President Obama recently claimed it is.



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