It was an adventure getting there through the Biblical deluge. Not too impressed this year.
The silent auction table had a bunch of garage sale reject stuff, plus the only way to bid was via cell phone text message. Wrong format for a room full of geezers. I heard several people complaining they were unsuccessful in bidding. I didn't try, because there was nothing I was even interested in bidding on. A pile of used rifle slings? Really? They can do better.
First speaker was Marc Victor. I have heard him speak many times. Not impressed on any of those occasions. He was a Marine, therefore "knows all about guns." Hardly. I once heard somebody ask him about carrying a 1911 cocked-and-locked and he answered -- quote -- "What's a 1911?" I want my defense lawyer to know about firearms, so the prosecutor doesn't pull a fast one over on him about "hair trigger" and "armor-piercing hollow points" and "full semi-auto."
Second speaker was Alan Korwin, whom I have also heard speak many times. Always good before, but this time, he came unprepared. He fell flat. Told the joke about the battered wife, with the punch line (so to speak), "She should have listened the first two times." As you can imagine, that went over like a lead balloon as a warmup for the main event: a women's panel. Stupid.
Unfortunately, I had to leave early for another social engagement, so I missed the women's panel. I was really looking forward to that. One of the panelists was Cyndee Harding, whom I have heard before, and she is a very smart woman. The other two I was not familiar with: Antonia Okafor and Rachel Malone, but their CVs look terrific. I checked out their websites, and they are impressive people, exactly the kind of people we need advocating for our rights.
www.empowered2a.org Antonia Okafor
facebook.com/Rachel.malone.tx
Check them out.
Anybody else go? Your impressions? How was the women's panel?
