While on a recent radio show, J.J. Johnson was asked, "what does the Gun Lobby need to do to save the Second Amendment". His answer: "The Gun Lobby needs a Gun Lobby". Since the Nation Rifle Association is the largest organization with over 4 million members, if there is a gun debate in the Major Media, the NRA gets the phone call. It's time to change that.

There are over 80 million gun owners. And many pro-gun activist feel the NRA is not, and cannot be the organization to vigorously fight the battle as it's needed, for fear of getting attacked for being too "extreme". The fact is, the NRA could not respond with an effective campaign against the Million Mom March. This is one of several reasons that, with all due respect to the NRA, many including myself feel a change of the guard is needed.

The Second Amendment Sisters began in 2000 as a counter demonstration to the Million Moms March. The Million Moms was (and is) a disaster. They know it and we know it, no matter what the government-controlled media has to say. On their first anniversary, "Million Moms" tried once more to buy a big demo. Second Amendment Sisters put more people on the ground in several western cities. Even where they managed to attract a few hundred, as they did in Sacramento, it was obvious from the dozens of unopened boxes of T-shirts that they had hoped for more.

The Second Amendment Sisters is ideally positioned to be the leading Pro-Gun group in the country. There are many fine groups -- Gun Owners of America, RightToKeepandBearArms.com, Second Amendment Foundation, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. The problem is (sorry, I gotta be blunt) that white males run them and speak for them. What too many gun activists fail to see is that the political landscape determines the rules of engagement for battle.

No one wants to have a debate and openly tell a woman they can't defend themselves. SAS is about women. And if sex sells, then it's time to put some attractive women (especially mothers and even grandmothers) in the forefront on the Second Amendment fight.

What many believe is the leading defender of the Second Amendment, the National Rifle Association, supports Project Exile and now focuses on hunters rights. Unfortunately, the NRA has followed what appears to be the inevitable course of a large and aging organization. It exists to promote the organization rather than its goals. This is a natural result of dedicated volunteers, who become staff and then find their careers completely dependent on maintaining the donor base. The NRA is not alone; I have seen the same trend in my own political party.

The NRA did nothing about the recent problems with K-Mart. K-Mart announced that due to pressure from anti-gun groups, it was stopping sales of certain types of ammunition. The NRA did nothing. But grass roots action forced K-Mart to dump Rosie O'Donnell.

It is very hard to support the position that a woman should just take a chance that she will be raped. Or robbed. Or see her children molested. A woman is a perfect Poster Child for Second Amendment rights. Maybe she is a single mother, maybe a waitress who comes home at two in the morning. Maybe she is the victim of domestic violence. The bottom line is that it is a lot harder to attack a woman who wants to defend herself.

A woman with a gun is sexy. Look at the posters for movies of those buxom and muscular women holding serious hardware. It turns men on. There are also a lot of men who will not even consider romantic involvement with an anti-gun woman, due in part to Lautenberg Amendment. Stories of a gun grabbing partner calling the BATF and reporting her man's guns after a domestic squabble and reports of domestic violence when there was none are becoming common. This phenomenon will only increase as the gun grabbing gets fiercer. More and more women who are for more gun control will find fewer and fewer men who will even consider a long-term relationship with them.

The NRA has a good program for younger folks called the Eddie Eagle Program. Perhaps it's time for the our "Sisters" to start the "Annie Oakley Club" – dedicated to teaching young girls about firearms and firearms safety. The SAS can only improve its image by gathering sponsors for Women's marksmanship competitions.

We, the Second Amendment Sisters, need to be as vigorous as the Pro-Choice, animal rights groups and the NEA. We need to get a letter or a protest going about any infringement whatsoever of our Second Amendment rights, just like they did with abortion, testing animals, or private education respectively. Some of the positions taken by Pro-Choice did not make sense, like supporting late term abortions. There were very few of them and accepting this just gave fodder to the other side. Now it's time for SAS to do the same -- trigger locks, the California laws -- all must be fought.

There is a great grass roots explosion of pro-gun sentiment. The grass roots efforts shut down the recent UN Summit on gun control, with no help from the NRA. There were so many letters (I don't believe the number "100" that they released) that they called in extra security. Several congressmen and bureaucrats, including John Ashcroft, went to the UN and defended the Second Amendment.

Where was the NRA?

Second Amendment Brothers: Hold the door open for us, please. We have a vacuum in leadership at the top of the pro-gun movement. Lets make the 40,000 Moms and the rest of the anti-gun crowd sorry they ever got us started.