Posted on 06/21/2006 12:39:00 PM PDT by neverdem
www.gunowners.org
Jun 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Do you know someone who is pro-gun, who likes working with college age kids, and who is in need of a full-time job in the fall?
Well if so, former Rep. Steve Stockman (R) has a deal for him.
Stockman is the Director of the Campus Leadership Program (CLP) in northern Virginia. The CLP is a project of the Leadership Institute, which trains conservative activists and places them in key level positions around the country -- both in government and the media.
The CLP project focuses specifically on college campuses, helping conservative students start independent groups that are fighting to reclaim the campus from decades of leftist abuses. The CLP has started 722 conservative clubs in schools in all 50 states.
But they have very few gun clubs, which is something they would like to change.
That's why this is a unique opportunity for someone who likes working with college-aged kids. They can help the pro-gun cause in the fall by starting a GOA gun club on campus or by working as a field representative. Every field rep who starts a gun group will be paid between $400-500. Kids can make as much as $1,000 a week.
But realize, it's not just about the money. It's about preserving our Second Amendment rights.
It doesn't matter how many battles we win today. If we lose the hearts and minds of the next generation, we will never win the ultimate battle to regain our lost rights.
ACTION & CONTACT INFORMATION: If you know someone who is interested in helping start a GOA gun club on campus, please send his contact information to Steve Stockman at the Campus Leadership Program. You can reach Steve Stockman at the Campus Leadership Program by using one of the following methods:
E-mail: clp@leadershipinstitute.org
Phone: 800-827-5323
Internet: http://www.campusleadership.org
I'm not blaming the GOA for anything. I'm just asking exactly what they have been doing. If you or anyone can't answer that, don't give me all that BS about the group being a "no compromise" organization or better than the NRA, SAF, JPFO or the Citizen's Committe.
How come the GOA hasn't rectified those mistakes if it was possible?
At least the SAF has done some good works in partnering up with the NRA concerning the Katrina victims. The GOA should learn to work together. Or we'll fail separately.
When did GOA become a group & did they come along to compete with the NRA? What is your opinion of them? I've read some posts of people complaining about the NRA, I don't see anything wrong with them as a group personally. I wouldn't label them as slow, confused, etc.
I joined the NRA last fall, and plan on becoming a life-member when I finish school & get a job.
I don't know when they came into existance. I met Larry Pratt about 1993 so they may have been around about that time. He seemed like a decent sort.
I think the problem started when they started that "no compromise" nonsense. If they were a "no compromise" group, the slows must have thought that someone did compromise. As long as GOA members continue to do Sarah Brady's work in driving people from the NRA, they won't see a penny of my support. The final straw for that was ridiculous websites complaining about what happened over thirty years ago.
The "problem" of the NRA is they have a long history started as a rifle organization. Not as a Washington lobbying group. They went through three changes that I know of to become what they are today. The biggest change was creating the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action. I think that was Wayne LaPierre's achievement. When I vote for the Board of Director's there are still candidate's who want your vote because they were a shooting champion or are listed in the Boone and Crockett listing for hunting. They don't get my vote. Only people who started grassroots pro-gun organizations do.
If half the gunowners which is about 40 million people joined a gun group like the NRA or the Second Amendment Foundation, we wouldn't have gun control. You could buy your machine gun at the local hardware store.
I have received email alerts from the GOA for years. They do a good job of tracking local bills and state gun control issues as well as national, although the NRA does also.
I do remember back when I first heard of GOA I got the impression it was a splinter group that was not happy with the NRA.
Shooter 2.5 you are right. You cannot elect NRA board members because of an affiliation with hunting. To be honest with you, I am as pro hunting as it gets, do hunt some, and have made a living for many years thanks to hunters, but hunters can be (ARE) their own worst enemies.
They are so busy fighting each other over which weapon (compound or crossbows) is traditional enough to be legal, or the grouse hunters fighting with the bear hunters over baiting and using hounds, etc.
Most hunting is done on public lands and you can't get a handful of the hunting community to show up at Forest Service meetings to counteract the environmentalists trying to shut the hunters out or stop all logging (and destroy the many species of wildlife dependent on successional growth).
The NRA is on the right path -- focus on the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, to protect you and yours.
Guns don't commit crimes and kill people -- but mean people can do that with a rock.
'Nuff said. Gun rights activists don't need to be bickering over what guns should be allowed, by whom.
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