Why the NRA has failed and why we are doomed.

The National Rifle Association has long been considered one of the most effective lobbies on Capitol Hill. I had always considered this to be the case as many a politician who favored gun control went down in flames when targeted by the NRA. The NRA got its start, as their website states, when "Dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops, Union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association in 1871. The primary goal of the association would be to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis," according to a magazine editorial written by Church. After being granted a charter by the state of New York on November 17, 1871, the NRA was founded. Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was also the former governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. Senator, became the fledgling NRA's first president."

From that rather humble beginning in 1871, the NRA emerged as the premier protector of the second amendment in America. I must say that I was very disappointed during the presidential election campaign to see that the NRA was only doing "the usual" when it came to opposing Obama. By the usual I mean running anti-Obama ads, sending out mailers and doing a few editorials in the American Rifleman. I imagine that the NRA was thinking that the gun owning public could not be stupid enough to elect an ultra left wing radical like Obama, so why waste any additional money over and above their normal marketing efforts to try to get Obama slammed.

When Obama got elected, it should have put the NRA in crisis mode. Although the Supreme Court had recently ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that the second amendment protects an individual right to own guns, the decision should have been 9-0, as the second amendment is actually quite clear in its intent.

All Obama has to do is appoint two more activist Supreme Court justices and the previous affirmation of the second amendment could be overturned. The NRA also apparently forgot that Obama can destroy the second amendment by executive order. The military was recently ordered to stop selling surplus small arms spent brass to the public. The outcry did cause this decision to be repealed, but it could easily be reinstated. Ammunition importers are reporting that import permits for certain calibers of ammo are "getting lost". Major U.S. ammunition manufactures who do business with the Government can be coerced into cutting domestic ammo production in return for lucrative Government ammo contracts. In fact, a worker at one of the big ammo makers indicated that although civilian demand for ammunition was high, their factory was actually cutting production, despite the large profits that could have been made.

While the NRA would not want to go around advocating armed insurrection or elimination of certain Government officials (however desirable that prospect may be), their criticism of Obama has been anemic at best. Their position seems to be to just wait it out and in four years hope we get a pro-gun president. In the past, the NRA has fought hard to stop anti-gun politicians and then kind of glided along when pro gun politicians have control of congress. The NRA should have been preparing to keep the second amendment going all along.

The major wake up call for the NRA should have been the Gun Control Act of 1968. The Gun Control Act of 1968 is a federal law that broadly regulates firearms owners and the firearms industry. It initially focused on interstate commerce in firearms. However, the origins of the GCA 1968 were rather sinister. From the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership website: "Members of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) consider "gun control" to be an aggressive cancer. JPFO has a cure, a way to destroy "gun control". JPFO has hard evidence that shows that the Nazi Weapons Law (March 18, 1938) is the source of the U.S Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA '68). Adolph Hitler signed the Nazi Weapons Law. The Gestapo (Nazi National Secret Police) enforced it. In "Gun Control": Gateway to Tyranny we present the official German text of the Nazi Weapons Law and a side-by-side translation into English. Even more deadly: a side-by-side, section-by-section comparison of the GCA '68 with the Nazi Weapons Law. If you have this in your hands, no one can tell you that you're imagining things.
The clincher: JPFO knows who implanted into American law cancerous ideas from the Nazi Weapons Law. The likely culprit is a former senator, now deceased. We have documentary proof that he had the original text of the Nazi Weapons Law in his possession 4 months before the bill that became GCA '68 was signed into law. This former senator was a senior member of the U.S. team that helped to prosecute Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46. That is probably where he found out about the Nazi Weapons Law. He may have gotten a copy of it then, or at a later date. We cannot imagine why any U.S. lawmaker would own original texts of Nazi laws." If they are a liberal dimocrat, it's actually pretty easy to figure out why they would have copies of NAZI laws in their possession.

When the GCA 1968 passed, the NRA should have taken a more active role in promoting firearms ownership. The NRA did consider opening retail firearms training centers, but did not want to cause animosity to retail gun dealers and range operators. They should have done it anyway. The NRA also should have considered starting or purchasing an ammunition manufacturer and possibly getting into firearms manufacture as well, so as to ensure a steady supply of ammo and guns in the event the government pressured ammo and firearm manufacturers into cutting production, but before an actual ban took place or if the government restricted certain ammo and gun imports, the NRA could pick up the slack.

The NRA should also have considered the formation of an NRA militia, since the original purpose of the organization was to improve army marksmanship. The militia would be a potential deterrent to any Government efforts to confiscate guns from citizens.

The one thing the NRA could not have figured, but the one thing that will make groups like Handgun Control, Inc. ultimately prevail is the changing nature of society. The liberal education system has done a magnificent job of dumbing down the public. Most high school graduates can barely read and write and they, in general, know nothing about U.S. history or the founding fathers. Half of all marriages end in divorce (the percentage is higher among evangelicals) and a recent article mentioned that 40% of births are out of wedlock. I was listening to the radio the other day and one of the announcers mentioned that Rush Limbaugh's approval rating was only 11% for people age 40 and younger. I'd guess that 9% of that 11% comes from those age 30-40. Under age 30 and you have been completely corrupted by liberals/Satanists.

The liberal education system has effectively destroyed the country. God has been removed from schools. If you are a person of faith you are viewed with scorn and derision. We have gotten away from our Biblically mandated directives and are paying the price for this. Ephesians 5:22-33: 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

We have a clear mandate on how to behave as husbands and wives yet 50% of all marriages end in divorce. The duties of a Godly wife from proverbs 31: 13-27
13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
15 She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family
16 She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
17 She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
18 She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night.
19 In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
20 She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.
21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
22 She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
23 Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
24 She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
26 She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

So, how many men do you know today that fulfill the Godly duties as a husband. How many women fulfill their Godly duties as a wife. I'm not suggesting men should adopt the Taliban approach to women, but men have been utterly emasculated by women and refuse to teach them the ways of God and what is expected of them.

Some issues that developed from the "empowerment" of women are that it dilutes the labor pool to the point that, for the most part, two incomes are required to maintain a household at a reasonable standard of living, whereas, back in the day a man could provide for his family on only his income. The high divorce rate has produced many single parent families and with 40% of children being born out of wedlock, one can expect the the majority of households will not have a Godly husband and father to teach their sons how to grow up to be Godly men. Our society IS doomed and no matter how effective the gun lobby is we will end up being disarmed and "dealt with" by our Government. The NRA could have, however, been more effective and cognizant of the underlying problem and prolonged our demise, perhaps by a few decades.....and we may have been able to turn things around........or not.

Dead Cat Bounce or sustained recovery?

I recently made a couple of posts dealing with the economic outlook and then the Dow goes from a low of 6469 to today's close at 7216. So the Dow jumps up about 747 points in a week or so. Is this the start of a sustained recovery or is it basically a temporary bounce? My feeling is that it is only a temporary bump up.



People obviously thought it was time to do some buying and this may continue for a bit, but there is really nothing going on in the U.S. or world economy to justify a sustained rally. The Chinese have been recently begging for assurances that we will not screw them over. Considering the actual value (or lack thereof) of the dollar, I'm surprised that we are not having to take a shoebox full of cash to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread. The reason this is not happening is that, apparently, the rest of the world is worse off than we are and there needs to be at least one foundation currency. The fact that much of the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) money has gone to European banks and other financial institutions is not sitting too well with me as it reminds me that about two thirds of our gold reserves went to rebuild Europe under the Marshall Plan. We are well past the time to keep bailing out ungrateful European countries.



Anyway, back on track. I still think we are going to see the Dow at 5000 or 4000 before we finally hit bottom. The big unknown is what will happen if we have another 9.11 or a conflict starts up somewhere. I feel there is a 99% probability Israel will attack Iran in the near future. Iran has about 6000 gas centrifuges in operation; this is not in dispute. (We had 20,000 gas centrifuges operating during the Manhattan Project, but 6000 is sufficient to produce enough enriched uranium to make a bomb.) Iran has produced enough enriched uranium to produce an atomic bomb....also remember Israel is a small nation and two or three nuke strikes would wipe it off the map. The Russians have completed the Bushehr reactor in Iran and it is undergoing testing. It can produce enriched uranium or plutonium, either of which can be used to make an atomic bomb.



The main issue for the Israelis at the moment, and the reason I think hostilities may be imminent, is that Russia is resuming sales of the S-300 ( NATO designation SA-10 Grumble) surface to air missile. Although the Russians have fielded a more advanced version known as the S-400 (NATO designation SA-21. The S-400 can engage spaceborne targets.), the S-300 is an extremely potent SAM. It can deploy within 5 minutes and can track 100 targets simultaneously and upgraded versions can engage up to 36 targets at the same time.



If you are an IDF General, you are acutely aware that you do not need to lose a bunch of multi-million dollar aircraft to a missile that cost a couple of hundred thousand dollars or less. Israel MUST strike Iran before these SAMs are deployed in significant numbers. All bets on the economy are off if that happens.



Another major terrorist attack could equally accelerate the death spiral of the economy. I hope I'm wrong, but facts are facts.




S-300 Launch

Update 03/22/2009: Looks like the Russians are holding off on the S-300's to Iran for a while. I still think we are going to see an Israeli attack on Iran soon since Obama's latest olive branch to Iran cannot be sitting too well with our Israeli friends. Israel is not going to allow Iran to ring its nuke facilities with S-300's and it is not going to give Iran time to develop an atom bomb or two either. Something has got to happen soon.