Posted on 07/13/2014 1:10:24 PM PDT by Q-ManRN
I am glad that you liked my essay. Thank you.
I agree about all the junk mail from NRA
I have been a member of NRA off and on for years. I can take the junk mail as it’s easy enough to simply discard. The non stop phone solicitation is what irritated me to no end. While I realise money is needed to counter the anti-gun crowd, some of us have limited incomes and don’t appreciate being shamed into giving for this campaign and that one. I haven’t been a member now for 2 years this time and probably will not join again.
So did You get a semiautomatic revolver with extended mags and a Lazer?
Or a Double Barrel with nite vision?
I don't get a whole lot of unsolicited mail from NRA, so I don't get upset about it.
Lol!
You are right about there being “lots of good pro-gun organizations” and I like your view of JPFO. :)
I appreciate your experiences. California is a “tough nut to crack” as far as gun rights because it is controlled by liberal Democrats. The important thing is to be in the fight to protect our Second Amendment right as you said. I might also add that here is a Gun Owners of California organization which is associated with GOA, I believe that GOA was started in California.
“Commonly told story about the NRA. If they stopped being jerks, they would easily have 10x the membership.”
And if they quit supporting RATS who claim to support the Second Amendment. As far as I am concerned, to the extent that the NRA supports non-conservartives, they are suspect. I’ve let my NRA membership lapse because of these actions on their part. The WHOLE Constitution should be considered by the NRA when making an endorsement, but it isn’t.
the NRA lost me when they didn’t endorse Sharon Angle against the “rat” Harry Reid
I do not fear my government, I am angered by it. Run and hide is not a strategy unless you want to guarantee that your opponents are victorious.
Ditto. I remember reading that the House would still be Democrat held if the 2010 NRA endorsements had all retained their seats.
Not comparing my way of thinking to anyone in particular, but the run and hide strategy works just fine when the other side has all the cards. See the American Revolution
What do I like best about GOA?
During jury selection for a crime involving a shooting, the attorney asked if anyone was a member of a gun group. I said I was a member of GOA. What is that, the attorney asked. I replied, “They’re a group that formed because they were tired of the namby-pamy, limp-wristed liberals at the NRA!”
The liberal woman next to me, who said she got all her news from the NY Times, let out a shriek. The attorney looked at me like I had 12 heads, all drooling. They decided they didn’t want me on the jury...
LOL
I was most impressed by the immediate and emphatic reaction by the Second Amendment Sisters to the post-Katrina gun grab in the big easy. The NRA took days to issue a statement. Consider giving them your support as well, male or female.
Smart move.
I am not happy with the NRA, the GOA is unquestionably the better organization. The NRA gives “A” ratings to plenty of people that get Ds from the GOA, and they helped re-elect rat Joe Manchin, who quickly betrayed them.
A little late to the party, but welcome nevertheless.
Don’t worry your name is already on several govt lists. If you are worried about being a member of the NRA don’t be if the government wants to rendition you they won’t give a c##p about your membership they will just want to put you into a American version of Buchenwald concentration camp as they view as an enemy of the “state”.
I let my membership lapse a couple years ago when I found myself in a bewildering array of memberships in this and that and decided to pare down considerably.
I received a lot of advertising from the NRA but it didn't bother me as I believe in "anything for the cause" and I didn't let it offend me in any way.
Leni
Ever since, we get tons and tons and tons of junk mail in her name....so that's how RD makes their money; selling names and addresses.
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