To me, the solution is to keep out the Dems. If every gun owner registered to vote (its free by the way) and voted the right way, we wouldn't have a problem.

Back when Clinton ran against George H.W. Bush, I had a list of local NRA members (my zipcode), who were not registered to vote. Armed with that printout and a pile of mail-in registration forms that I'd picked up, went around over a period of a few weeks, knocking on doors and encouraging those members to register to vote.

Got more than a little bit of grief from several, who assumed I was working for the Bush campaign, although I told them up front that I was an NRA volunteer, the NRA wanted members to be able to vote and that's how I had their names/addresses (NRA/ILA had sent them to me).

One guy got really wound up, told me he was "voting union" (Clinton), cursed the Republicans for a coupla minutes, then told me to get the bleep out of his driveway.

In my experiences, there are quite a few guys in PA who own firearms and hunt, but still vote how their unions tell them to, come election time. Their unions ain't encouraging them to vote Republican.

I've helped out in the NRA booth at the Eastern Sports and Outdoors show for years. Almost every year some yahoo will come up and rant about the Repubs "sticking it to the working man", the NRA is all about supporting Republicans and that he will never join, etc.

Two years ago an older guy stood there for 15 minutes in front of the booth, yelling about NRA standing for Nat'l Republican Assoc. and shouting all sorts of bizaare crap, before the gathering crowd booed him on his way down the aisle.