Please don't start with the "binary choice" argument. That's like telling a woman she's pro-abortion just because she doesn't run out and get knocked up for the hell of it. The NRA has proven conclusively that they are not interested in listening to anyone but themselves. They have become a bureaucracy in their own right, and I have no more use for that in the private sector than I do in the public one. I put Trump and the NRA in the same category: I want to support them both, but they can FOAD if they promise me one thing and then do the opposite.
Please don't start with the "binary choice" argument. That's like telling a woman she's pro-abortion just because she doesn't run out and get knocked up for the hell of it. The NRA has proven conclusively that they are not interested in listening to anyone but themselves. They have become a bureaucracy in their own right, and I have no more use for that in the private sector than I do in the public one. I put Trump and the NRA in the same category: I want to support them both, but they can FOAD if they promise me one thing and then do the opposite.
Agreed: just because we disagree with some of what they do now, please don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Given adequate documentation that an individual is a threat, (such as there seems to have been with Cruz) I don't think a law providing for the seizure and/or surrender of any firearms possessed by that person is unreasonable.
Please note what I just wrote. Given adequate documentation of a credible threat, I support such a law. What I don't support is a law permitting such an order because your neighbor up the street decides to turn you in just because he or she doesn't like guns, and you have them. The subject of the order should be allowed to contest it before the order is issued and all evidence presented would have meet a higher legal standard than preponderance of the evidence. I suggest clear and convincing.
Also, it strikes me as just that the person making a frivolous complaint should be subject to heavy damages.
GOA and all the others put together equate to essentially NO VOICE AT ALL in comparison to the NRA. At least in D.C.
Quite so. It's the NRA that the gun-grabbers hate, not GOA, CCRKBA, JPFO, etc.
There is something to be said for negative reinforcement. If the NRA sees their membership increase every time they support 2A infringements, it seems logical to me that they would take that as a sign that people support those infringements. If they saw their membership decline, that lost revenue might motivate them to listen to gun owners instead of their own echo chamber.
For all of the clout that the NRA is supposed to have, why is it that they can't hold the line with the Republican party in control of the White House and both houses of Congress? It's because LaPierre, Cox and the rest are worried about the same thing as their political counterparts--keeping their prestigious, high paying jobs. If HRC and the Democrats were in power, the NRA would be fighting Fix NICS and ERPOs tooth and nail for the same reason--keeping their prestigious, high paying jobs.
For all of the clout that the NRA is supposed to have, why is it that they can't hold the line with the Republican party in control of the White House and both houses of Congress? It's because LaPierre, Cox and the rest are worried about the same thing as their political counterparts--keeping their prestigious, high paying jobs. If HRC and the Democrats were in power, the NRA would be fighting Fix NICS and ERPOs tooth and nail for the same reason--keeping their prestigious, high paying jobs.
It's too bad that Trump isn't listening to GOA and all the others. Then he wouldn't be supporting the soft gun control being promoted by the NRA.
I know I hammer the NRA a lot, but it's because they do have so much power. When they talk, people do listen. Therefore it's important that anything they say be on point, because the media will not give them the opportunity to go back and make corrections. I think that the NRA has its priorities out of whack and has forgotten that the power they wield comes largely from the millions of members whose support they enjoy. I would love to write the NRA a check for a lifetime membership, but at this moment I can't do it in good conscience. Hopefully tomorrow I can.
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Little by little.... they are going to give it all away. The NRA has no line in the sand.
Try an annual membership, that will give you access to the board of directors. You can contact them with your concerns and see if you like their response or not.
You guys realize that you have a say in the NRA's dealing right?
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