For those bickering about "land-grabbing" politicians and so forth, and complaining that the NRA doesn't enter that arena, it's important to note that the NRA is a single issue group. They are solely focused on Second Amendment issues, and as we all know, the Second Amendment has nothing to do...
What about NRA-PVF? What's their expenditures? That's the PAC that spends money on ads and influencing elections. The true amount spent on elections by NRA is somewhere closer to 20-30 million annually.
Of course they didn't... Obama had another election he wanted to win. He was guilty of the same political cowardess he accuses others of. On the other hand, are we going to pretend for one minute that the political landscape on gun issues is the same as it was in 2010? I don't think so...
I know exactly what you mean with the phone calls and the 3-4 page, front to back, doom and gloom, sky-is-falling-down type letters, but it's really not that hard to just toss them in the trash and hang up the phone. That's what I do, and don't feel guilty or pressured about it. These tactics...