For Americans tired of NRA bullying.

[Jackalope]

Call capital hill @ 202-224-3121 and demand they stop allowing the GOP/NRA to obstruct gun safety laws.

You'd be better off writing your congresscritter - and I mean an actual letter not email.

Aside from that, there's a very simple reason why the NRA is as influential as they are, and it probably isn't what you think.

After an incident like Orlando, Newtown, or Columbine, people are rightfully outraged and there's an outpouring of support for congress to do something - albeit temporary. A few weeks or months after the incident, the pressure has significantly died down - until the next one happens.

I used to be on the mailing list of NRA, GOA, JPFO, et al. There one thing that all of them have in common, the advantage that they all share, is that they are constantly reminding their membership to pressure their Representative and Senators - and send donations - even when the issue is not in the public eye.

NRA has a few million claimed members - and while that may be small relative to the population of the USA, their membership dwarfs that of the active membership of the gun control lobby (HCI, BCPHV, et al), is very organized, and they work very hard at it.

I saw the John Oliver piece last night as well - and he's absolutely correct - you have to keep up the pressure. Otherwise, you will not beat them.


They work very hard at it.