Here's the tenth in my series where I come up with daily suggestions for gun owners as part of Examiner.com's New Year's resolution special project. I believe today's is one of the more important ones:
I will support legal actions/court cases protecting the right to keep and bear arms.
Which ones?
That's up to you--and knowing which cases are out there is part of the responsibility gun rights activists have to be informed.
Here are a few resources to look at, by no means all-inclusive:
And it may be you would rather assist individuals who are being punished for acting like the Second Amendment means what it says:
Etc.
The legal fight will determine how the government can proceed against us in its continued war on guns. Don't neglect it or leave it to others. Court cases are expensive for organizations and ruinous for individuals.
It's so easy to just ignore pleas like this and figure someone else will carry the load. In the long run, we may find our apathy has come back to haunt us, and we'll have to care because it's our ox being gored.
And we'll wonder why no one wants to help us...
Suggested resolutions posted to date:
New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's gun rights resolution: Read Second Amendment Books
New Year's gun rights resolution: Shoot a machine gun
Comments
My employer "encourages" us to contribute to the annual United Way campaign. I haven't thought too much of the United Way since they dumped support of The Boy Scouts of America. Then I noticed that I could earmark my "voluntary" contribution to a specific qualifying organization. Surprise, surprise, NRA Civil Rights Defence Fund qualified. Now my "voluntary" contribution helps defend 2A, ticks off my employer and United Way (trust me, they were well and truly ticked) with one simple payroll deduction. Three birds with one stone! Hard to do much better than that!
If all pro-gun organizations would form a legal action co-op and team up or merge and work together instead of overlaping cases it would be much easier to donate and our donations would go a lot farther. Am I wrong ?
Don, you can't get them to agree on which cases to back for the same reason you will see them come up with different positions on bills or different ratings for politicians. So find one that appeals to YOUR sense of justice and help out.
Ya, you are probably right. I just hate to wake EVERY morning ,turn on the news just to see what rights I lost the day before. Its getting old fast. My best guess is to put all bets(donations) on the Tea party movement.The republicans have let us down , and the dems have never been there. We would not need all these law suites against the gov't if they were not made in the first place.I truthly believe had Nelson voted "no" on health care, Snow would have voted "yes", Thats how they work back there, all of them. Don
As another incentive, consider there are thousands of Uniformed Service Members in various countries all over the world Dutifully Serving to keep America safe from our foreign enemies.
While they’re away, they’re depending on us to keep America the same place they left, which means it’s up to us to protect those Freedoms which make America what it is--
the place they call Home.
Seldom even considered in the debates and threats by legislators to ‘ban’ certain types of semi-automatic firearms is having access to certain sport / utility rifles such as the semi-auto AR15, AK47 and M14 affords active-duty military personnel and those enlisted to Serve the opportunity to practice and familiarize themselves with civilian versions of arms they will use as part of their Duty, and in some cases encounter on the battlefield.
In addition to your resolution in support the ‘RKBA’, make a pledge to do just a little more this year to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS and as always, REMEMBER OUR VETERANS.
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