[mrerick]

I am a director of a state level Gun Rights organization, and have been working for gun owner rights for close to a decade. This is a uniquely American issue, and I apologize to our International members.

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The media and politicians are dancing in the blood of the victims.

Bump stocks and action types and cosmetic features of modern sporting rifles are not the issue.

Psychopathic murderers are the issue.

I guess we are on the way to 22,001 infringements on the Second Amendment.

What the Las Vegas monster did was despicable.

I am a law abiding citizen. Why pass laws that unconstitutionally restrict my rights as a result of this?

We never are dealing with rational behavior when we collaborate with gun control advocates. They live by the mantra, "never let a crisis go to waste"... It's one of the Sol Alinsky "Rules for Radicals".

The other problem is that, in a free society, prohibition never works. It only causes more problems. Witness the track record with alcohol (where prohibition funded organized crime), drugs (where prohibition funds the international criminal drug cartels), sex (where entire industries now have replaced local issues) and other culturally harmful things.

If you live in a totalitarian environment you can even attempt to prohibit thought. Witness North Korea and Iran. In a free society, you just create business opportunities for criminals.

Maybe "bump stocks" and manual bump style operation need to be "controlled"... I know of one incident in all of our history that might lead you to consider this. I can also name a large number of other "risks" that are being ignored daily nationwide. The terrorists and criminal psychopathic murderers just haven't used them yet. I would like to maintain the right and the means to stop them.

Here's one example. Background checks do not work. They never have, and never will. What's different is that terrorists have learned to recruit and radicalize psychopaths with clean records. It happened in San Bernadino, Orlando and now in Las Vegas.

Unfortunately, the gun grabbing progressives are not interested in bump stocks, or bullet engraving, or cosmetic control of firearms. They are interested in complete elimination of law abiding citizen's rights to self defense with firearms. They are willing to play the game of death by 1,000 cuts, and lie regularly all along the way.

Just next month, Scientific American will be publishing an article on Gun Control which cites a number of already disproven "peer reviewed studies" including one I helped personally debunk - an opinion piece by a reporter at the New York Times with absolutely no basis in fact.

If we were dealing with normal social discourse, I might feel differently, but I can assure you - there is nothing rational or normal about those that want to control you.

The NRA needs to focus on nationwide concealed carry reciprocity and moving suppressors out of the NFA and into the GCA. I'm really unhappy about their political game.