Many here may not know it, but I am one of the directors of our state's gun rights organization,
Grass Roots North Carolina.
I generally keep my political activity out of our forum, but since we've been discussing things here, I'll share my BLOG with the membership:
https://skilledshot.wordpress.com/
As an organization, we have helped write and establish the NC Concealed Carry Handgun permit system back in the 1990's, and have helped write and pass three major gun rights improvements since 2011. H650 gave us Castle Doctrine, H937 in 2013 and H562 in 2015 both implemented a large number of changes.
Understand that much of what the anti-gun people are doing today is based upon manipulation of impressionable young people, a huge injection of money (many millions last weekend) and the collusion of a mainstream media that is carrying out a propaganda fueled agenda.
For example, in 2016 one of the grabber's own progressive "research" organizations funded by Bloomberg, Johns Hopkins University, published a study that was widely acknowledged by the medical community. In it they calculated that 250,000 annual deaths are caused by medical error and physician negligence, and they advised changing the way death certificates are coded as a result.
According to digital analysis that actually counted people in photographs, there were 202,000 plus or minus 15% attending the Washington gun grabber rally.
It's not in the media's interest to go against the gun grabbers and publish truth like that. Instead they just repeat "Parkland school victims" and "victims of gun violence" over and over again. Many more people are actually dying because of the medical profession. Of course the doctors "mean well", don't they, and the gun grabbers are working "for the children"...
This means that those students are thousands of times more at risk going to the doctor than in going to school, and that the equivalent of every one of the Washington marchers will be dead within one year due to medical errors and negligence.
Furthermore, the "Rapper" that sang to the marchers was arrested a year ago for a concealed carry gun violation. The organizers refused to let a Parkland student "survivor" speak because he disagrees with them, and their chief spokesman "victim" was elsewhere far from the actual scene when he was victimized by "hearing the shots".
The stories of lies, deceit, manipulation, and press propaganda go on and on... Unfortunately perceptions are reality, and they are winning the "popularity" war - at least if you listen to the press and some Republican politicians that are apparently running scared.
I know that they appear to be dragging their feet in the North Carolina legislature's super majority Republican house and senate.