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Thats not what I find most depressing, its all the gun owners who refuse to take any action or have given up. Its like playing for a sports team where 3/4 of the players go home or lay down on feild because there 10 pionts behind.
It's worse that that analogy in many ways. Half our players are working against us, or quit years ago. I banged my head against the wall in arguing with apathetic gun owners who were either Democrats, never-Trumpers, voted libertarian, or didn't bother voting.
There's got to be enough gun owners who, if they simply voted in a unified block for pro-gun candidates who have a real chance of winning (not far-out 3rd parties), and stopped wasting votes that Washington (and other states) could be rescued. No shots fired. No expensive long-term frustrating lawsuits. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. And all of this anxiety, stress, depression, frustration, time and money wasted, etc would go away and our/their/your rights restored.
But I've gone round and round and round with people who didn't vote Trump because he wasn't the "perfect" candidate, etc. Just a few months ago I was in a gunshop where 3 adults were shopping for a handgun and they were unjustifiably completely unaware of I1639 and the waiting period. The employee and I looked at each other with unmistakable AYFKM expressions...
In an age where most people have more information in their pocket at the touch of a few buttons than entire libraries could hold in the past, it's totally unacceptable for people to be uniformed and ignorant. Yet folks can tell you the latest updates on some irrelevant TV show or sports statistic. And Washington folks are some of the worst offenders of ignorance and apathy. Ballots are mailed to them with pre-paid return envelopes and a printed GUIDE to the issues. Yet 50% can't be bothered ... It's heartbreaking, really, what folks in prior generations have suffered and sacrificed given the current state of affairs.