Really.. Does anyone think for a second Markell, Biben or other anti-gunners are going to change their minds? I mean it really doesn't matter if they had been granted a voice or not at such a meeting. For that matter talking to most politicians falls on deaf ears and is a waste of breath. These type of issues are settled / determined by how much money passes hands. While there are some pro-gun 2nd amendment politicians who can't be bought many others could be bought with bathroom/restaurant deals which help their own agendas.
I hate being the party pooper but that's the way US politics has always been to some degree, though over the last 30-40 years its completely gone down the crapper for the people. The NRA pays politicians (buying votes) to help their campaigns, etc and anti-gunners are buying votes through Bloomberg, etc. I even saw where they were paying people to go door to door spreading anti-gun propaganda sometime over the last week or so.
I've done the emails, phone calls, mailed letters, etc to the politicians. Every single reply, except one, was a form letter and reading between the BS you pretty much know how they plan to vote. Every single time I replied back I either received the exact same form letter or nothing at all. I continue every other week but I honestly don't know why. Perhaps it's the positive nature of this site and my relatively new found enjoyment of guns that keeps me doing so. The day of "We The People" having much voice in this country is long gone and it'll never come back.. peacefully anyways.
I read something the other day.. "Rights aren't rights if they can be taken away. They are privileges. That's all this country has ever really had.. A Bill of Temporary Privileges."
Lawyers, politicians (1 in the same these days) with the big corporations and hushed secret societies have made sure of this and every single year they get fewer and fewer.. Usually for our own protection they tell us.
