[Robert357]

While I too feel that Wayne LP must go and that the NRA should change the way it does things. I view a different approach.

When I was a teenager, the NRA was very active in firearms safety training and marksmanship training. I felt that was great. They also served as a conduit between scouting, the Civilian Marksmanship Program, State Hunter Education Programs, etc.

The role as protector of the 2nd Amendment came much later. It is one that the NRA has had both success and utter failure in.

What really soured me with the NRA’s role on protecting the 2nd Amendment was the lousy job they did in Washington State in the two state wide initiatives, which both passed overwhelmingly.

I remember trying to suggest some coordination between the NRA, the local NRA affiliate rife ranges, and the local NRA affiliate Washington Gun Collectors Association. The NRA did virtually nothing to bring everyone together to oppose the initiatives. Also the money given to the anti-gun campaign by billionaires dwarfed the money the NRA donated.

In my view, the NRA is a paper tiger in protecting the 2nd Amendment. Once upon a time they were not a paper tiger, but today they are.

The NRA needs to reinvent itself and I for one, want them to pass the torch on protecting the 2nd Amendment to someone else, someone who will really get out in front. Not someone who will use every excuse to do fund raising from the membership.

I would like to see the NRA go back to its roots of firearm safety training, scouting support, marksmanship training, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION. The old adage of lead, follow or get out of the way, comes to mind. I think it is time for the NRA to get out of the way and hand the baton over to someone who will do a better job.

[Scrambler Bob]

I think I agree.

Good points about a focused role for NRA.

Let the other rabble rouser Org.s focus on 2A and the legal fights.

[Macoozie]

If the public is educated, trained and actively shooting, threats to the second amendment would be impossible.
Agreed.
Get back to the core of it.
Training, education, marksmanship, local ranges etc...
When everyone is behind “keep and bear” because they keep and bear, it will be simple.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I would like to see the NRA go back to its roots of firearm safety training, scouting support, marksmanship training, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION. The old adage of lead, follow or get out of the way, comes to mind."

Certainly the NRA should continue with those things (when did they stop?). But EVERY pro-gun organization MUST defend the Second Amendment, or there will BE NO gun organizations (or guns).