Quote Originally Posted by thvigil11 View Post
In a fair fight, yes the middle can be swayed. While I respect your opinion and see your logic, I don't share your optimism or faith with the ability of the NRA or the GOP to deal with the left. Regardless of public opinion on the right, middle or left. This is going to end badly for us gun lovers, with no concessions.

To use another analogy. The liberals are like the bird in the "playing chess with a pigeon story." Unfortunately, the leadership on our side think the game is checkers and are taking strategy from Zap Brannigans Big Book of War.

"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
It is NEVER a fair fight with the Left but we will absolutely lose if we let the Left paint us as pure obstructionists. I won't talk to the GOP as they've proven their ineffectiveness the past 9 months but the NRA has been very effective in dealing with the Left and I'm concerned primarily with US -- ordinary gun owners -- in swaying the Middle. We have no sway with the Middle if we appear to validate the Left's contention that we're all extremist single-minded psychos (yes, I know, they're looking the mirror when they make these characterizations).