We’ve had some feedback on our post last night covering the December 29th email from Gun Owners Foundation Executive VP John Velleco.
In short, repeating: You can’t join a gun rights organization and expect that membership card will entitle you to legally carry from sea to shining sea.
And yes, his email post was up on the GOA website as an alert to members too.
I think the charitable interpretation of his email is that those legal victories allow gun owners (and GOF members) eligibility to apply for a carry license in NY and California. Whether or not your application will be approved once you jump through all the regulatory hurdles is entirely another matter. And if you think Illinois’ license is difficult to obtain, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet until you’ve navigated Florida and California’s application process in the more rabidly anti-gun locales.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think we’re aggressive enough in the media and other venues regarding the second amendment. The second amendment clearly states that our right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. In my opinion, every gun control law on the books that I’m familiar with, is by definition an infringement. We need to be more aggressive in pressuring, the Supreme Court and other government entities to follow the meaning of the constitution. But again, maybe it’s just me.
It’s definitely not just you. Our elected (key word) representation doesn’t listen when we tell them why we elected them. Every one of them acts like Dick Durbin when you tell them your thoughts on what they are doing. I once took the time to send Durbin an email telling him that my Constitutional rights were being denied to me by anti-second amendment laws. He did respond with an email that told me that I was fortunate to have him do my thinking for me. GRRRR. That really pissed me off. I knew what he thought about my rights. What I didn’t know was that he was willing to do my thinking for me.