Grownups do that.
Once you turn outward and look to the larger population to deliver your message, allies and ideas open up and the numbers of which are limited only by imagination and hard work. They don't even have to have a direct connection for / against guns.
Over the decades we've spent far too much resource on taking the antis and the body politic head on. We still have to do too much of that but it must not be our sole focus with our main "weapon" being some variation on No Compromise.
There are many ways to win over maidens' hearts.
My friend, You have a Trump Derangement like reaction to that movement... you just can't let that go...
No Compromise was one theme and logo with in the entire landscape of what was going on in Canada at the time.
It became a popular slogan among the NFA before the huge fallout from the last couple of years.
It was never the "main weapon". The "main weapon" will always be all the people behind these movements who put their time and money into fighting back on the incessant gun grabbing in Canada.
For some reason that one triggered a lot of people and its clearly because a lot of people were uncomfortable with a slogan and position that the vast majority of Canada does not understand.
Assuming that because we support a more "radical" position, that we are frothing at the mouth knuckle draggers who can't have a civil discussion on the topic is a poor tactic internally with in the gun community.
Many Canadians are shocked I am a life NRA member as well.
Lobby groups need a mixture of viewpoints to succeed. You can't have a bunch of milque toast people or a bunch of rabid dogs running the show and the real problem is when people subdivide themselves more then they worry about the overall problem. People will always approach it a different way.
I have had many a discussion that have ended amicably with non gun people on the topic over the years and it has never been about forcing people to accept the message by beating them over the head.
Its about not compromising on the underlying values surrounding natural rights... There will also never be a time we accomplish whats ahead of us with just a single message either.
Everyone has a place as long as that place doesn't become more important then the overall message.
A lot of gun owners in Canada seem to delight in throwing the "radicals" under the bus in an effort to seem more reasonable to the crocodiles....
We need every tool in the toolbox... the real shame is the orgs aren't coordinated better to fight with their side of the message so they can let the other one fight a different front.
The CCFR working with the CSSA is good news.
I just look for allies in unexpected places. You would be surprised how many left-wingers at my alma mater I turned raging-ammosexual in my college days... only one who joined me for shoots went back to being a Gun-Grabber, and sadly she's the one that decided to run for political office.
