Study the gun material and the genocide material, Warch. I did, and now I know how to keep the Republic, and to keep genocide far away. Note, too, that I am not an isolationist.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership is a site you may find interesting.
Mr. Noodle, while the NRA has done lobbying, its fundamental purpose is still promoting expertise with firearms; that is its core. There is another branch of the NRA: the Institute for Legislative Action, or NRA-ILA. That's the lobbying arm and does all the lobby work. When all is said and done, what they promote is civil and human rights -- the right not to suffer criminal assault, the right not to suffer genocide, the right to resist tyranny. When or if all legal checks and balances fail, there is the seventy to eighty million people who can kill off as many government staffers as may be needed to head off government tyranny -- basically by making the machinery for it collapse from missing parts. The effect is multiplied by those citizens who are government staffers -- they too can stymie tyranny, by that very same method, and from within, yet. Having such a check and balance against the insensate power of government does a pretty darn good job of keeping government in its rightful place -- as the public's servant, not its master. The better armed the electorate is, the more likely their rights are to be secure. This is the rightful way to organize a genuine republic, and its record is one of success. Real republics set limits to power -- the pseudorepublics can be detected in their not doing so.