If gun owners don accept some light forms of gun regulations (such as background checks), won we get worse?
One of our largest problems in retaining our gun rights is that some gun owners — who are supposedly on our side — want to establish gun control before the liberals do it to us. This is called the “Neville Chamberlain” syndrome. Like the former British Prime Minister, many NRA leaders believe that our opponents at HCI — and other leftist gun-grabbing organizations — will be satisfied after passing just a few of the least intrusive gun controls. This strategy is the chief reason America has moved quickly down the gun control path in the last decade. It is difficult to tell the Sheriff that a thief stole your ranch when you GAVE the thief half of the ranch. The NRA is also very concerned with how the media and politicians view them. They believe that by accepting “reasonable” restrictions on our gun rights they will make friends with the politicians and media, which is largely true. Why wouldn’t a politician want the NRA to endorse lesser forms of gun control? It allows a politician
