BamBams - I agree. I think McCain/Feingold has done more to rupture our Constitutional Rights than any gun control amendment ever has. I just don't understand how that could have passed, but it did. At least there are ways around it and one way I believe is to support the NRA's efforts to create its own media branch. Whether one supports the NRA or prefers the GOA or other organizations isn't the issue, it's whether gun owners can get a fair voice in supporting their candidate of choice.
Years ago there was a Frank Sinatra movie entitled 'The Manchurian Candidate'. It has been re-made starring Denzel Washington, but the focus is the same. I think that's what may have happened to McCain, to be perfectly cruel, but I also think a cog slipped somewhere and he made his move to undermine our freedoms before he got close enough to the power source to hurts us worse than he already has.
What I just don't understand is how people can mistake the structure of the Constitution and the importance of the 2nd Amendment. Of course, there is still a lot I don't undertand but will continue to rail against what I perceive to be injustice. Thank Goodness my 2nd Amendment rights continue to support my First Amendment rights to disagree. Just my 2 cents worth. Mikey.