flood of Conservatives now support some new gun laws. (illegal, weapons, dollars)

[itlltickleurinnerds]

Bill ORiley, Charles Krauthammer, Joe Scarborough, several senators and more now all support more gun law. We are gong to lose and the hard core who want to die in the Alamo rather than give some on guns will make it worse than it has to be. I would rather keep my semi auto and have to have it registered than to not have it at all.

The NRA is not the giant it was thought to be. People are now calling the kings new cloths for what they are. The NRA represents about 1 percent of the population. Of that 1% many agree that semi autos need to be regulated more. The NRA had better get on track or its going to become irrelevent.

[bobtn]

You are correct. the NRA has little political power. Over 99% of its 2012 campaign contribution dollars went to losing candidates, and Bloomberg's PAC knocked out 4 NRA supported opponents in 7 tries. He put a pittance in this year, testing the water for 2014 and beyond.

In general elections in 2014 and beyond, a connection to this fringe group (which has just 1/30th the membership versus the quantity of 2012 US voters) will be a liability to be used as campaign fodder for the opposition, not an asset.

[SourD]

What conservatives would like to see are the ILLEGAL guns taken off the streets, but Liberals/Progressives cry about infringing rights when police try to do this. SOME control laws are needed, like maybe registering a high capacity magazine and such. Registering/banning these so called scary "assault weapons" won't do anything. If a gunman enters a "gun free" zone where nobody is armed, you can kill scores with a 6 mag shotgun, revolver or any handgun. Who's going to stop them from reloading? I can fire all 6 shots out of a semi-auto shotgun and reload pretty damn fast. It would only take 4 reloads to kill over 20 people and that can be done in minutes.