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I finally did it!

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#1 ·
I've been an off and on member of the NRA for years, but I finally decided to make the plunge and get a lifetime membership. Having a Republican government, it's way too easy to become complacent. This is probably the best time to join the NRA, because (hopefully) they can get things done.
I don't blame people who can't afford to go all in, but even just a years membership costs about the same as a box of 45 ammo.
 
#33 ·
I've been a Life Member for 48 years and an Endowment Member for 2. It was much harder to increase my status due to the %-age difference in cost vs. income, but none the less, I felt it was imperative to help the best anti-guntheft liars on the planet. Could the money be used for other things, yes, like food and shelter. Would it be used for other things, yes. The best investment in my future, however, was to support the NRA now. I realize that the NRA overhead supports some fat-cats that live considerably higher on the hog than my wife and I do, but the end results still cannot be argued. I know that the NRA will permit me to help educate and train my grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I want to have them enjoy the hobby I turned into a livelihood for as long as this nation exists. I've watched the NRA ebb and flow as individuals have been part of their leadership, but I still believe firmly that they still have my core interests at heart.
 
#35 ·
I was an NRA devotee until Wayne LaPierre jumped the shark by screaming that any discussion on personal weapon use is disarming America and enviserating the Second Amendment. In terms of policy debate, the NRA is irrelevant because of its total scare mongering and total inflexibility.

Every weekly shriek for money I got swore the defense of the Republic was in jeopardy if I refused to send my $25 for some NRA fund or other. The tacitic got real old, real fast.

But, if people enjoy living with continual faux panic, enjoy it.

No, I am not a Democrat, I am nothing but a hopefully free-thinking rationalist preferring facts over Twitter rants.
 
#36 ·
I was an NRA devotee until Wayne LaPierre jumped the shark by screaming that any discussion on personal weapon use is disarming America and enviserating the Second Amendment. In terms of policy debate, the NRA is irrelevant because of its total scare mongering and total inflexibility.

Every weekly shriek for money I got swore the defense of the Republic was in jeopardy if I refused to send my $25 for some NRA fund or other. The tacitic got real old, real fast.

But, if people enjoy living with continual faux panic, enjoy it.

No, I am not a Democrat, I am nothing but a hopefully free-thinking rationalist preferring facts over Twitter rants.
I hear the same excuses from lots of people who rationalize not joining or letting their membership lapse.
The NRA is always pointing out where 2A rights are being challenged, and constantly raising money. That's what they have to do.
As far as the "faux panic" statement is concerned, if not for the NRA, I doubt we'd have high capacity handguns, AR/AK style rifles, carry permits (in so many states), and lots of other without all the work they do.
If the NRA was gone, the void would be filled with anti-2A money and politicians.
 
#37 ·
I hear the same excuses from lots of people who rationalize not joining or letting their membership lapse.
The NRA is always pointing out where 2A rights are being challenged, and constantly raising money. That's what they have to do.
As far as the "faux panic" statement is concerned, if not for the NRA, I doubt we'd have high capacity handguns, AR/AK style rifles, carry permits (in so many states), and lots of other without all the work they do.
If the NRA was gone, the void would be filled with anti-2A money and politicians.
Once upon a time, and I remember those times, the NRA was an educational organization. Now, the NRA is basically a bunch of money-extorting Scientologists preaching a paranoid sermon making rational discourse on gun ownership and weapon use impossible.

But, lots of folks here think lots of good things about the NRA, and if that is where one wants to place money, I wish all well.
 
#39 ·
Once upon a time, and I remember those times, the NRA was an educational organization. Now, the NRA is basically a bunch of money-extorting Scientologists preaching a paranoid sermon making rational discourse on gun ownership and weapon use impossible.

But, lots of folks here think lots of good things about the NRA, and if that is where one wants to place money, I wish all well.
And what organization is leading the national discourse on gun ownership more the NRA? You must mean the Brady people and Bloomberg.
 
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