We can NEVER count on the NRA to take a principled stand. Feel good legislation like the "Crime Bill" & "Brady" were passed so that the "anti-gunnies" wouldn't be able to use them as campaign issues. Hell, I remember the NRA apoligizing for Kyl's Crime Bill vote before he made it and THEN gave him an A+ rating AFTER he voted for it. This is why we Libertarians insist on the far more desirable "L rating" the NRA has given us in the past. The NRA (and sad to say, Knox) fear these freedom thieves - and they aren't even armed with the truth. The pursuit of votes will hand this country and its heritage over to the mob,... and the NRA will help.
Ernest Hancock
Founder Director SAFE (Second Amendment is For Everyone)
>From: "Neal Knox" <neal@nealknox.com>
>To: <fco@lists.best.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 1:42 PM
>Subject: Forbes' Strong Showing May Help McCain
> Yesterday "Shannon's Law," a bill that would make celebratory
>firearm shooting into the air a felony thrice over, advanced
>to the Arizona Senate. It's named for a 14-year-old girl who was
>killed by a falling bullet last summer.
>
> Some Arizonans have taken exception to NRA's support and my
>non-opposition to the bill, pointing out that the existing felonies for
>recklessly shooting into the air make the legislation purely a
>"feel good bill."
>
> Yes it is. But a bill that doesn't do anything beyond the
>rarely enforced (unfortunately) present law -- and I'm told the present
>bill
>doesn't -- does not do any damage, while opposing it on principle
>gives the anti-gun crowd a stick with which to beat us over the
>head.