10 reasons why I won’t support the NRA anymore
Heh.
15 Responses to “10 reasons why I won’t support the NRA anymore”
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August 16th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Sounds like it was written by Hemke himself. You know that same does not make a lick of sense babbling the anti gun lobby loves so much…
August 16th, 2010 at 10:39 am
After the last go round in Georgia, there are good number of us that won’t support them. They went around before a vote, telling legislators that they were “covered” and could vote against the gun bill or local gun rights group was passing. One of our guys was following them around the floor correcting the lies that their guy was dealing too. This is the second time that the NRA folks attempted to shoot down a bill that wasn’t their bill, but rather one backed by Georgia Carry. The NRA will fight for your rights just enough to keep you paying the bills and them keeping their jobs.
August 16th, 2010 at 10:54 am
I read this blog daily…but come on…it took me a minute to figure out that the “article” was a 3 letter link to another article.
I mean you look at this page and you see tons of ads and 2 comments and it took me a minute to figure out that the article was just 3 letters..even the category is “uncategorized”
August 16th, 2010 at 11:04 am
We can’t have pretty designs… hell some of us are still trying to figure out how to play with crayola safely!
Wife won’t allow me to use safety scissors.
August 16th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Hmmm. That’s kinda what I do.
August 16th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Text is black, links are blue. Easy peasy.
August 16th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
“They went around before a vote, telling legislators that they were “covered” and could vote against the gun bill or local gun rights group was passing.”
Who is “they”? Who was the NRA’s lobbyist in Georgia?
Which bill? Give us the bill number please.
Who were the legislators? Who was “one of our guys”?
August 16th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Jeebus! If you’re gonna bash the NRA, hammer them for their schlock fund-raising activities, inspired by the business model of Publisher’s Clearing House. Hammer them for STILL supporting Lifelock Insurance, when several state Attorneys General have sued the company for fraud and deceit.
Hammer them for changing the shirt color of their official Range Safety Officer clothing from Dayglo Orange to Safety Yellow without a changeover period, just so the NRA Store can FINALLY show a profit.
Hammer them for not knowing where the “Easy Button” is to enter the Standing Firm Mode on the 2A, as the GOA does.
But, leave them alone on the trivial stuff, heh.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:30 am
I don’t know who the commenter at 9:06PM was, but it sure wasn’t me…
August 17th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Wait, I do know who it was.
Shootin’ Buddy needs to clear his cookies on his machine. 😮
August 17th, 2010 at 9:02 am
I think ignoring the NRA’s faults is not a productive way to correct them. Instinctively smearing anyone who questions the NRA’s priorities is a surefire way to marginalize the entire 2A movement. As far as I can tell, the really significant legislative victories of late have all come from groups like SAF and not NRA who notoriously tried to hijack those cases.
Also, I’m not a member of the NRA even though I work for a company that PAYS for my NRA membership if I want it. You know why? Because they send me so much junk mail that I get accustomed to throwing it away instead of looking at it (except American Rifleman) and I always throw away my membership renewal (which they send you about 7 or 8 times a year). They send so many different, creative mailers, letters, packages, and other junk that they must have a huge team devoted to coming up with so many different ideas for mailers, and the cost of that team and the cost of printing, packaging, and sending the mailers must be huge. I don’t want to give them money to fund their mailers.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Those would be “judicial” victories.
August 17th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Yikes!
Sorry, Tam, that was from the home office.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:40 am
I agree with a lot of what Matt has to say about the NRA, but I am a member and have been for 10 – 11 years.
You can renew your membership and still get mail and phone calls a few weeks later wanting you to renew.
When I ask the callers how many years I have left on my current membership, they become apoplectic.
I am concerned about what have have read re the NRA’s negotiation of the new campaign finance reform bill (which mercifully hasn’t passed) with Harry Reid (including a trial balloon floated a few weeks ago about a potential endorsement of Reid by the NRA).
When I think of Harry Reid, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagen immediately spring to mind.
I don’t know what is true and what isn’t, but I fear that I am smelling a rat within the NRA.
I am not dropping out, but I sure don’t want it to follow the path of the GOP (you know, bartering away whatever pricipals it had in exchange for illusory power, which slipped through its fingers like a handful of sand).
August 17th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Tam is correct, of course. I failed to proof read. Legislative victories are still too few and far between, and every Judicial victory is attenuated, truncated, and marginalized by new, more devious legislative efforts by the enemies of Liberty.