Oh, so sad but so undeniably true as well; that most powerful of all lobbying interests - if one is silly-minded enough to believe the American media - has sold its membership a bill of goods and has done more to remove Article Two of the Bill of Rights from history than all of the anti-gun-nut-nuts together ever would have, could have or even wanted to!

Did the leaders of the NRA mean for this to happen? I'm not truly certain; on the one hand, they'd have to be diabolically ingenious to conceive and carry out such an underhanded scheme, while on the other hand, they'd have to be blithering idiots to have failed to anticipate the inevitable outcome of their actions. It's a toss-up.

Through scores of letters and e-mails I have personally warned the NRA leadership repeatedly over the years that they were going to regret taking the path of least resistance like cowardly weasels instead of bringing the fight to the enemy like the freedom fighters they enjoy fancying themselves as.

Just because what they have done was totally unwitting doesn't mean that these sheep-in-wolves'-clothing are witless ... well, not entirely. Perhaps they are merely too weak morally and intellectually to do what still must be done. Now, though, it will be twice as hard because the damage that the NRA has done must somehow be UN-done!

It seems as though the NRA is pouring salt into their self-inflicted wounds when they boast of the number of states that they have successfully introduced legislation into that require ordinary American citizens to waive their right to keep and bear arms under Article Two of the Bill of Rights by signing their names to applications for "permit[s]" that "allow" them to exercise a constitutional right.

They might as well have passed around a petition to nullify Article Two of the Bill of Rights, because that is effectively what each and every signature on any and all applications for "concealed weapons carry permit(s)" is; one individual petition at a time to each State's government declaring that we citizens need the States' permission to exercise our rights. The NRA members alone who have fallen for this reversal of rights movement are enough for a consensus that, yes, Americans must pass some sort of test and get some sort of license before they can exercise any of their constitutional rights!

It is mystifying why the short-sighted NRA leadership chose the specific tactic of encouraging its member base to apply for these wholly unconstitutional "permits." The aforementioned cowardice and moral infirmity explain quite succinctly why the NRA failed to adapt the tactics that still remain necessary, but the mass petitioning to States' governments to require citizens to be licensed in order to exercise a right secured by the Constitution defies all logic and reason.

What should have been done - and what still must be done - was/is to introduce, re-introduce, and re-re-introduce, in every session of the House and every session of the Senate, [a] Bill[s] that recognizes the Articles of the Bill of Rights as inviolable.

Furthermore, it is imperative that each and every individual in each house of Congress who has ever betrayed their oath of office by introducing, supporting or voting for "gun-control" legislation be brought up before a military tribunal on charges of treason by means of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of these United States of America by offering them the hope of an unarmed populace incapable of resistance to oppression. The Bozos who dreamt up the NFA and the Gun Control Act of 1968 can be tried posthumously, but they must be tried, dug up, and hanged by the neck before a firing squad until being reinterred in an electric chair!

These are tough measures to be sure. Much more difficult, much more controversial, and much more distasteful to the average citizen than fighting for the right to have to get a permit to exercise one's rights. So long as the NRA leadership consists of cowardly, two-faced, easy-way-out, namby-pamby Bible-thumping sissies in suits, the Articles of the Bill of Rights are going to be treated as amendments to the Constitution rather than integral parts of the whole document as ratified.

I was in the process of paying off a life membership in the NRA when they began this nonsense of pushing members to apply for concealed carry permits. I have stopped making payments, had what I already paid converted to yearly dues (expiring NOW!), and will not support the NRA again until and unless they get their priorities straight and put their rather significant monies where their collective mouth is; go after the anti-Americans in Congress who violate their oath to uphold the Constitution by introducing, supporting or voting for legislation which would diminish the rights it guarantees the American People!

If you've been thinking about applying for a concealed carry permit, PLEASE DO NOT DO IT!!!

Remember, your signature on that application tells the State that they have the right to require you to have a permit in order to exercise your constitutional rights.

If you live in a "right_to_carry" state, instead of waiving your rights under Article Two of the Bill of Rights by signing an application for an unconstitutional permit, take the money you would have spent on NRA membership dues and your State's "permit" and invest it in a nice holster and gunbelt. Then do what I do;

               "Don't hide arms, wear sidearms!"

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The Supreme Court of the United States of America have ruled:

"Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrocate them." (Miranda v. Arizona, 1966)

"There can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of Constitutional rights." (Sherar v. Cullen, 1973)