Posted on 08/07/2019 7:29:22 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
I believe the overwhelming majority of NRA members are good people and responsible gun owners, but I decry the NRA's leadership and direction. I oppose its tactics. I condemn its inability to support its members, and I lament its transformation from a sportsman's organization into a shill for gun manufacturers...
I used to be proud of my NRA affiliation. It was a group that brought me together with like-minded people. I have friends and family who are still members; some were even in Indianapolis. But now I'm proud that I left, especially given the leadership meltdown we saw this weekend in Indianapolis, with scandal after scandal breaking throughout the weekend.
NRA members are not the problem. Responsible gun owners are not the problem. Most people at the annual convention are not the problem. The problem is the organization's leadership and the politicians that act at its behest.
Simply, the NRA has strayed far from its mission.
Today's NRA barely resembles the organization formed almost 150 years ago to aid marksmen with firearm training, safety and enthusiasm. Even in my youth in the 1980s and early 90s—after the NRA became deeply involved in public policy—at its core, the organization was still about safe, responsible gun ownership.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
What scandals?........
Fights commenced, get fighting or get put of the way!
Yeah, but in this case, in Newsweek, it’s to support the POV of the Fudd faction.
As in Elmer Fudd: “You don’t need that to go huntin’!”
“What scandals?........”
Wayne Lapierre has been using the NRA as a personal slush fund. He will be very luck to stay out of prison.
The NRA is probably toast and it was a self inflicted wound.
...As you said. Newsweek.
The fact it is Newsweek isn’t just one factor in determining the validity or believability of this article - ITS THE ONLY FACTOR.
The NRA has over 5 million members. The law of large numbers - you could probably find one or two to even claim they are Communists.
I sense you are concerned. Posting an old article. From Newsweek. Condemning the NRA.
Concerned. Sad.
I have been seriously wondering about staying with the NRA because of the reasons posted. I am a veteran and with a long line of ancestor veterans going back to the Revolutionary War.
Yesterday, I posted this:
To: Innovative
This may be the time to pull the plug on the NRA and go to another 2nd Amendment Rights Group.
The NRA elites have reminded me, of our so called GOPe’s. Elites wanting more money and minimal efforts against the Dems trying to take away our guns 24/7.
Maybe is time to learn about the: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO):
About JPFO: Fierce Defender of American Liberty!
Three primary goals drive the Washington-based human-rights group Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO):
Destroy so-called “gun control” (code words for disarming innocent people).
Expose the misguided notions that lead people to seek out so-called “gun control”.
Encourage Americans to understand and defend all of the Bill of Rights for all citizens. The Second Amendment is the “Guardian” of the Bill of Rights.
I am not Jewish nor a member of JPFO, yet.
So how do my fellow gun owning Freepers feel about the JPFO and our current NRA?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3769698/posts?page=40#28
'Nuff said
Citizen disarmament, tyrant nonsense. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.’
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As do most organizations after a period of time.
Heck just look at the USA and it's founding.
Change is inevitable.
In those days we had judges who upheld the Constitution and there was no need for an organization to have to battle to keep the 2nd Amendment.
You all had better not dismiss this one as fake news.
The NRA is, in fact, in serious hot water over financial fraud and though the investigations are being carried out for politically malicious reasons, it does appear that the leadership is, in fact, guilty of exactly what they are accused of.
The leadership of the NRA is about to accomplish what the left never could. The fact that the jerks are supporting Trump’s gun control now is making it worse.
I strongly suggest everyone who is in the NRA get a membership with GOA and FPC pronto.
He's the reason Olly North and 3 board members left.
Wayne needs to go.
I still love the NRA, but am very upset about Wayne Lapierre’s using our dues for happy-ass spending. I hope he gets thrown out somehow.
Scandals we don’t need.
“Today’s NRA barely resembles the organization formed almost 150 years ago to aid marksmen with firearm training, safety and enthusiasm.”
That was easy when politicians & public sentiment wasn’t he11-bent on demonizing gun owners.
For decades now, NRA had to mobilize against gun prohibitions, making that a high profile imperative.
If the Left would leave gun owners be, NRA would return to mundane safety & sport.
Stop attacking your neighbor, and he’ll stop fighting back.
“The NRA has over 5 million members. The law of large numbers - you could probably find one or two to even claim they are Communists.”
That doesn’t account for LaPoere and the rest of the pr!cks who have taken over the leadership of the NRA. They are like Socialists, who are easy to install and difficult to dislodge.
Harry Reid was an NRA member until he decided to destroy it from within.
The RATS are back.
This guy’s a founding member of a gun control group funded by Bloomberg to the tune of tens of millions a year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everytown_for_Gun_Safety
Another way of putting this is he’s literally on Bloomberg’s payroll.
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