But some gun owners on FB have left nasty postings on FB pages about her, not the bill. You want to call her a dummycrat – remember Brandon Phelps and Gary Forby are Ds as well.

You want to call her names, then you demean us all. You want to attack her life style, you’re wrong. These are not the way to win friends and influence people. I understand your frustration with the issue. We go to court we win and the other side works to find a way to keep a ban, via regulation or other things. And we are back to court for another 2 years. I get it.

But using slurs and foul names gets us nowhere, and only serves to feed ammunition (pun intended) to the other side. Ever notice how the CSGV trolls for over the top posts to smear all gun owners by the comments of a few? And then they end up on FB, news releases, special reports and or committee hearings. So knock it off. If you’re friends are doing it on your FB page tell them to know it off.

If you want to have a rational conversation about the disparity that a federal Court gives the State over a year, to implement RTC, but a federal court says despite the law a Gay couple can get married in weeks – OK. It’s a question worthy of debate. If you want to ask how the State can flaunt federal drug laws, but then turn around and try to impose federal gun laws on the same people, go for it.

I have known Kelly, for 20 some years. We don’t agree on a lot. We have two completely different views on rights. Her gun registration bill is silly, stupid, un-workable and will never pass. So chill out.

It is much more fun to take a copy of her press release at the end of session after the bill fails, and light a good cigar with it and have a cold one and smile. We will win in the end. The Chicago scheme has crumbled. And we are only going to gain more ground, so long as the overwhelming majority of us fight the fight on a respectful tone, we will prevail.

There is a time to get worked up. And calling out hypocrites like Hoffman, buying illegal narcotics and calling for gun control is fair game. Just as is calling out Mark Wahlberg is for his prohibited status. But getting nasty with Kelly, is uncalled for and works against us. So knock it off. You only make my job harder.

You wanna be snarky, fine. Sarcastic, go for it. Passionate, please do. You want to rail against Shannon Watts and have all kinds of names for her band of merry misfits, cool. But we have the anti-gunners on the run in Illinois. Let’s let our victories do the talking for us. Nothing is going to bother them more, than seeing us take ground. And buying a drink for your losing opponents for them to cry in is so much more fun than name calling.

And in case you’re wondering, yea I consider her, Kelly, a friend. Like I said we don’t agree on a lot, but that does not matter. As in this business there are very few people I dislike. More I call friends. And just maybe, someone will figure out why Illinois doesn’t look like Maryland, New York, New Jersey or Massachusetts with our gun laws.

/rant off