A rare opportunity for North Carolina gun owners

Image by Chip Barnard, courtesy of Grass Roots North Carolina, www.GRNC.org

 To:      North Carolina Gun Rights Supporters
From:  F. Paul Valone, President, Grass Roots North Carolina

Gun voters:

“About one week from now, you will receive a 2010 Census form in the mail” says the letter I received yesterday from the US Census Bureau. (Who but the government sends a letter saying you will receive a letter.) And do you know what the census means?

Power.

Political re-districting comes next, and whichever party wins control of the North Carolina legislature gets to draw the districts that lock power for 10 years.

Power.

On one hand, we’ve managed to keep our finger in the dyke to stop gun control advocated by the Obama administration and, closer to home, anti-gun leftists in the North Carolina legislature.

Power.

On the other, we’ve been unable to secure a committee hearing for our crucial Castle Doctrine bill (SB 928) because, frankly, the anti-gun majority in the legislature is large enough that they don’t need to listen to us.

But GRNC has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change all of that:

- Thanks to voter dissatisfaction, a record number of anti-gun incumbents in the North Carolina General Assembly have viable opponents;

- Meanwhile, the Democrat stranglehold on the NC Senate has self-destructed, but most importantly;

- The Supreme Court struck a blow for free speech by striking down the “McCain-Feingold Act” that prevented GRNC from using organizational money to tell people what politicians have been doing to them.

The result is a “Perfect Storm” potentially enabling gun rights supporters to chart a course for at least the next ten years.

But taking advantage of this “Perfect Storm” requires money. Frankly, it requires your money.

GRNC’s massive “Remember in November” candidate evaluation and voter education project will cost tens of thousands of dollars. Throw in radio ads and postcard election alerts into selected districts, and the result is expensive even for an all-volunteer organization such as GRNC.

Moreover, for the first time in GRNC’s history, we would like to be able to send “Remember in November” candidate surveys for all 480+ candidates for primary elections.

If GRNC has to curtail its election efforts, we will squander a rare opportunity to take back our rights. Because if anti-gun statists retain control of the General Assembly, you face 10 more years of trying to hang onto whatever gun rights you have left.

…unless you do something about it.

Here is how you can help position GRNC for the election:

- BUY A TICKET FOR GRNC’s SECOND AMENDMENT SYMPOSIUM featuring the lawyer who saved the Second Amendment: Alan Gura. The event is being held on May 14 right next to the NRA Convention in Charlotte to let you take advantage of one of the world’s biggest gun shows, then hop next door to help GRNC retake our state and country.

For tickets, go to: http://grnc.org/symposium_order.htm

- TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE DEAL BETWEEN GRNC AND FRONT SIGHT under which you can handgun training essential to defending your family and at the same time help GRNC raise money for the 2010 election by going to: http://grnc.org/frontsight.htm

Unlike some other organizations, GRNC is all-volunteer and vows to make efficient, effective use of your money.

The image above is “Max” – a pit bull with the Constitution clenched firmly in his teeth. He depicts exactly how Grass Roots North Carolina defends your rights.

Armatissimi e liberissimi,*

F. Paul Valone
President, Grass Roots North Carolina

*First spoken by Machiavelli with reference to the armed Swiss, “Armatissimi e liberissimi means “Most armed, most free.”
 

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