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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNRA question–"In 20 years, where will we be?”–is one of gnawing urgency for the gun-rights movement
Take a look to your left, said the Hon. Philip Journey. Now take a look to your right. What do you see?It was Saturday morning inside a hotel ballroom at Houstons George Bush Intercontinental Airport. We, the several hundred congregants of the twenty-eighth annual Guns Rights Policy Conference, did as instructed. Looking to my left, I saw the pundit and National Review columnist John Fund struggling to attach a new credit card reader to his smart phone. Looking to my right, I exchanged nods with an older gentleman wearing suspenders and a VFW hat. He looked like he could have served in the Navy with the airports nearly nonagenarian namesake.
Youll notice theres a lot of grey in this room, said Judge Journey, who when not sitting on a Kansas district court bench serves as an officer for the Kansas State Rifle Association. Thats the problem with our movement. Weve got to get children into the shooting sports and develop an appreciation by them in the right to keep and bear arms. Because in 20 years, where will we be?
This question In 20 years, where will we be? is one of gnawing urgency for the gun-rights movement. At the National Rifle Association convention last summer, I heard gun industry veterans joke that NRA now stood for Normal Retirement Age. At this smaller but no less influential meeting of leading pro-gun minds, most speakers circled back to their fear that those in the room represented the end of a proud line. Even as the movements leading activists boasted of recent victories at the federal and state level and there are many, from successful recall elections in Colorado to a carry law in Illinois they warned of a deadly demographic drop-off, that the energy and the youth was all in the gun-reform corner. The people on the other side, like (the Stimson Center's) Rachel Stohl, they are very young and they are motivated, said Julianne Versnel, of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights. They know how to Tweet and Facebook, and they are doing a very good job.
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/08/the_gun_lobbys_secret_fears_and_future_plans_partner/
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NRA question–"In 20 years, where will we be?”–is one of gnawing urgency for the gun-rights movement (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2013
OP
What exactly does that mean? I assume you mean gun owners = gun nuts.
Common Sense Party
Oct 2013
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. I've said it a hundred times. Fear the future, gun nuts. You ain't in it. nt
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)3. What exactly does that mean? I assume you mean gun owners = gun nuts.
I'm not in the future? Why not? Will I be dead before the future gets here? Why? When is the future?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)5. You assume? I assume this is a video of you...
hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)4. One can only hope...
Buddha_of_Wisdom
(373 posts)2. Dead and buried, and forever banned.
Along with the gun-nuts organizations.....
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)6. They can't die off soon enough for me...knr