Well I remember a time when persons had gun racks in their trucks and actual rifles or shotguns hanging on them rather than NRA stickers in the rear window.
Sorry but the NRA is much like the NRC. It's just a brokerage firm for compromises on basic rights and freedoms. I belong to no club or association. Most of them after a few years become invaded with compromising moderate clowns who render them useless or worse support their sellouts fer da children of course.
As for lobbying? That is the most corrupt form of access to congress in the nation. What is worse is fools who pay them for services rendered as most of them work for companies that have no problems working for both sides. You tell me why a lobbyist is going to end their own gravy train when they can slowly draw a steady check from suckers for years with limited wins just enough to make them seem crediable? If the NRA needs lobbyist to send it's meaasge loud and clear then that is a lot of it's problem right there. It needs to be encouraging membership itself to stand out side the Pro-gun control congressman's office and stay till they are heard. The problem however is there is a substancial portion of members who want us to have gun laws it seems. So for that reason I will never join it.
I have as about as much faith in the lobby system as I do union stewards and presidents. No they don't care about you, your rights, or nothing but making sure you pay dues much like the RNC and much like the NRA.
From the sound of things the NRA leadership is much like congress meaning in bad need of tossing them out on their ears. But I bet they use the slogans like if we don't compromise on gun laws we won't get nothing.
Should read : Sorry but the NRA is much like the RNC.
Then you believe that if there never was a NRA, we would all be better off at this point on time? I don’t think so. That’s like saying that no one should have lobbied to take away partial birth abortion because what we really want is NO abortion.