For those interested in gun rights and activism on that issue

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As a national organization, the NRA isn't always the most reliable defender of 2nd Amendment rights, and is too often in bed with the Republican Party. However it does seem like they have some pretty good local grassroots activists in California. Below is a message with some info on the successes they've had in lobbying the state legislature on the RKBA issue that one of those activists who often posts on the Pink Pistols list about Alameda County NRA meetings sent me in response to my inquiry about whether there's an NRA group that meets regularly here in SF (turns out there is!) Perhaps I will try to go to one of their upcoming meetings and let them know we're here and appreciate their work. It may be that their group attracts some folks who are pro-freedom on other issues besides guns who might be interested in our meetings and/or events.

  The gun culture isn't personally so much my thing, but I recognize how important the issue of making sure ordinary people can possess the means of self defense is when it comes to keeping government tyranny in check. You may have heard of the "Four Boxes of Freedom"?

Soap Box
Ballot Box
Jury Box
Ammo Box

  The final box is our last resort when all of the others prove ineffective at keeping Big Brother at bay.

Love & Liberty,
                                  ((( starchild )))

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You are right about the Golden Gate United NRA MC being Republican. It's not called the National Republican Association for nothing.

Back in the heydays of my activism I used to attend every meeting. In all those years I only met one other true friend of Liberty. All the others were glad there were restrictions against gun ownership for non-violent law breakers and that was a pretty large group of people. They refused to even co-endorse me for my Assembly race, endorsing instead Leland Yee. They said they thought he was a moderate and could work with him. I wonder how they feel now that he's leading the anti-gun charge in Sacramento with Mark Leno, both seeking "big dog" status as Democrats.

Mike

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For future reference: this is due (in that form) to science fiction
author Ed Howdershelt, though it has antecedents: <URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty >.

~Chris