Posted on 07/20/2013 7:24:25 AM PDT by CPONav
Since I joined the NRA, I seem to have become a magnet for junk mail, phone calls and unwanted products in the mail. I have had it with them. Here is my third letter to them.
This is my third email to the NRA staff and I am tired of being polite. Since I joined the NRA in January of 2013, I have been hounded with unsolicited email, mail, and phone calls regarding everything from gun rights to mail order brides and I am absolutely sick of it. I joined the NRA as a gun owner and enthusiast, a taxpayer concerned about my 2nd Amendment rights, and as a concerned citizen regarding education of firearms. I did not join the NRA to have unsolicited phone surveys on Saturday morning, emails selling Viagra, insurance, and women, or to receive products in the mail that I did not order and demanding payment by a company endorsed by the NRA. My first email regarding this issue went unanswered. My second email regarding this was answered with a "we will remove you from the contact list". The damage has been done, my email address, home address, and phone number have already been released to agencies that will likely further pass this information around in a never ending data trade off. I find this behavior and business practice reprehensible from an organization that claims to be working for its members. As of now, July 20, 2013, remove me forever from any and all of your data bases. Cancel my membership. Erase my existence from your organization completely. Wayne Lapierre, you should be ashamed of your organization and yourself for allowing this to happen.
Is anyone else tired of this crap? Dues paying members' information should never be traded on the internet and that is exactly what the NRA does.
Since I don’t speak Norwegian, that site made as much sense to me as a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head. The English part was a little bit of help. I think some profound conversation must have happened at the forum linked in the blog?
>>Everyone has to make their own choices. I have found that once I stopped donating, the junk mail started to fall off after a couple of years.
I have NEVER donated anything more than my membership fees and I still get a ton of mail from them.
Lol. There was a flood of gawpers, and then stop. What we’re seeing is that people are scared out of their wits. They know the knives are there, and that they may as well be wielded by their own children.
After the war, there was this huge reparations settlement - which was ok, in itself. But what we never did get come to grips with was the actual Quislings - they were mostly let off. And with their past hidden, or “rehabilitated” like Nobel prize winner Knut Hamsun who presented his Nobel medal to Adolf.
I actually quit the NRA over this in November 2012, but I bought a 5 year membership right after Newtown, because we cannot tolerate the two-minute hate treatment being meted out by FedGov and the enemedia.
It is a pain in the ass, though.
I opted out of receiving all that and have never received the junk mail of which you right.
You don’t have to be a member, there are many freeloaders.
This is an Obamaworld, let someone else shoulder the resposibility.
I haven't heard form you in a while, but I'm glad I did. Take care, -SoFo
I go through my mail right beside the trashcan. I don't open most of the stuff, it goes right into the trash. No tension, no irritation, no problem.
That was the first time I complained about it.
I am a firearm owner and supporter of the 2nd Amendment.
The NRA should be supported through dues and donations and not have to sell my info.
Life member here. I never consider the junk mail to be much of a problem- it goes in the trash unless I feel like sending them some money, which I then do. They do a phone call once in awhile- big whoop. They do a fair job of protecting the 2nd Amendment, although at some point, that is going to have to be done by a man and a rifle anyway. Frankly, I wouldn’t join GOA, first because they have little influence, and second, my experience with some of their members online (not on FR, but elsewhere) left me wishing I could shove a yard of steel through them. But I wouldn’t dissuade anyone else from joining them.
In the end it is “we the people” that have to defend our 2nd ammendment rights. But that being said if the NRA goes away a major ally of the 2nd ammendment disappears. I am proud to be a member of the NRA.
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