So, as believers in the civil right to bear arms, where do we go from here now that the most anti-gun president in history takes office in January?

For us, nothing changes, we simply attack this problem as aggressively as we attacked the Clinton administration and the Republicans who turned their back on us and voted for the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. We stand up and force the elected officials to consider the danger to their future electoral viability if they try to take our guns.

Our job is to remind them of the Democrats bounced from office after the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban passed. We need to remind them of Al Gore losing his home state of Tennessee due to his willingess to take our guns, and we need to remind them that John Kerry lost in 2004 largely because of his stance on gun rights.

President Elect Obama did a great job of convincing people who haven’t been paying attention that he isn’t anti-gun. Well, those of us in the movement know better. But, his duplicitious campaign does us a lot of good going forward. If Obama comes for out guns, all the pro-gun voters who were tricked and voted for him will return to our cause. They are likely to feel burned by his glad-handing ways. Full Story »