Lt Col. Robert Bateman challenges the NRA

I quote from his blog wherever it is.


"Open Carry Texas" (which I think of as "Wimps With Mommy Issues"), conducted an open carry, en masse, at a Chipotle Restaurant — then the moms shared the word. They posted pictures of these morons carrying rifles in a family restaurant. Then they asked that the chain bar weapons on their private property. As Founder Shannon Watts put it: "The Chipotle petition received more than 10,000 signatures within just a few hours." The corporation realized where their business interests lie and that guns are wrong in their establishments across the entire nation.
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"These women are doing what nobody else had managed to do before now. They are actually affecting change. Not through legislation, but through the free choice they have to patronize, or to NOT patronize, private companies that allow guns to be carried in their stores, restaurants, malls, and more."


"This is too much. We have Tea Party political activists shooting cops from behind, in the head, then covering their dead bodies with the Tea Party “Gadsden” flag and shouting, “The Revolution begins now!”

"No. I am coming home. I need to be there and be part of the solution. Moms Demand Action is getting some traction, but they can use the lean-in of a few U.S. Army Airborne Infantry Rangers. I am only sorry that I did not stand up to this threat to our nation before. I am sorry. I was busy."

"I have been overseas in Afghanistan and in NATO nations for half a decade while the insanity of the National Rifle Association expanded and exploded, and the NRA became, essentially, the tool of death in the United States. They made mass killings normal."

And somehow the NRA thinks we there should be more people packing guns when we already have   by one count a school shooting every other week and in 2011 11,422 people were killed by gunfire in the United States (that's 31.3 per day) and 59,208 were wounded (162 per day).  I'm not even counting the 19,392 gun fire suicides as I figure they would have found another way to eliminate themselves from this earth.

And we can't even have a rational discussion about a few things that might reduce the use of automatic weapons to kill and wound innocent people who are just going about their normal activities in a day when some usually caucasian male comes out of the wood work on a mission to take some people out while he awaits a police bullet or comes to the realization that he'd better shoot himself in case the police just wound him and he ends up in jail.