Cruiser wrote:BFA Forum is almost POOF. I visit daily and nothing is happening there! Rarely is there a post.
BFA is fully in the Pragmatic Political mold
(which others have been guilty of). If we can get "some progress" on the issue, it matters not how far away it is from the goal. We can simply call it a win...and look, we've got a
ton of awards (based on this idiotic "success" model, so trust us):
2005 - U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Patriot Award
2007 - CCRKBA Grassroots Organization of the Year
2007 - League of Ohio Sportsmen/Ohio Wildlife Federation Hunter Educator of the Year
2007 - NRA-ILA Volunteer Organization of the Year
2008 - NRA-ILA Defender of Justice Award
2009 - NRA Sybil Ludington Women's Freedom Award
2009 - NRA-ILA Jay M. Littlefield Volunteer of the Year
2010 - National Wild Turkey Federation/Women in the Outdoors Hunter Education Instructor of the Year
2010 - NRA-ILA Jay M. Littlefield Volunteer of the Year
2011 - Linda Walker elected to NRA Board of Directors
2011 - CCRKBA Grassroots Organization of the Year
2011 - NRA Top 10 Recruiter - 5th Place
2011 - NRA-ILA Jay M. Littlefield Volunteer of the Year
2012 - CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Year
2012 - NRA Top 10 Recruiter - 3rd Place
2013 - Foundation named #1 NRA Recruiter, breaks record
2013 - NRA Foundation Volunteer of the Year Award
2013 - Outdoor Writers of Ohio Supporting Member Award for Best Website
2015 - SAF Defender of Freedom Award
Anyone can see that the NRA is scratching BFAs back. Wheeeee. One can't serve two masters. You're going to help the citizens of Ohio or you're going to do as your told by the SWAMP. (Oh, you don't know how big the
NRA is on K street?) Can't be half this and half that. BFA/NRA are not our friends, but I can comprehend how tough a sell that is to the greater gun community. BFA enables the cherry red Ohio Statehouse to avoid Concealed Carry by supporting the SWAMP. Cut and dried.
Cautionary Tale: You see this in the frustration of pro-life citizens, also. That there have been 40 plus years of "struggle" and half measures to overcome the arguments that won the day in 1973. All of the scientific arguments, all of the data, all of the logic is on the currently losing side of the argument, and they can't get the national knockout blow because the state and national orgs are all too happy to play the game of inches, accepting the false presuppositions of the game, having no ability to bribe/threaten the SWAMP
(the "R-brand" being greater than the rhetorically weak "ORG-brand"), and rake in the donations over a few generations, with no end in sight.
Is this the future that we desire? That's the future BFA/NRA and all the other Pragmatic Politics advocates will happily win.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798