Posted on 08/30/2008 8:11:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
I really wish that we at FR could get this one right. I can understand why the Old Media weenies, who don't know the difference between a bullet and a cartridge, continue to get it wrong, but there is no such thing as being a lifetime member of the NRA. Period.
The NRA offers a Life Membership, I have had one since 1978. Saying "lifetime member" just shows that someone doesn't know what they are talking about.
I’ve known “hunters” who thought nobody had a need for anything more than a bolt-action rifle and a double-barrel shotgun.e
She is a lifetime NRA member. The NRA has been known to support citizens having handguns as well.
OK genius, I’m a a member of the NRA as well. Semantics aside, so exactly how does a being a member for the remainder of one’s life differ from a Life Membership.
I like what you did there!
I'd cling to her.
Life member of the NRA (iirc), and yesterday there was a clip of her on FNC at a gun range firing an AR-15 (or clone). And as we know from the gun grabbing Brady Bunch, Di-Fi, Schumer, et al, that only 'right wing gun nuts' and terrorists have 'Assault Riles'. After all, 'Assault Rifles' aren't "needed" for hunting.
So I'd say she's pretty strong on the 2A.
The membership named and defined by the NRA is a Life Membership. The NRA does not define and has no membership category of "lifetime member".
Let me give you a car analogy. Toyota makes an SUV called a Toyota Highlander. Now, if I were to tell you that I owned a "Toyota Uplander" you would probably understand exactly what I meant. On the other hand, you would be correct to take anything I told you about cars with a very large grain of salt -- if I don't even know the correct name of the car, what else don't I know about it?
If I go to a lawyer and he calls a legal document by the wrong name, I don't hire him to represent me.
If I am a baseball coach, and my scorekeeper records a strikeout as S.O., instead of using the accepted notation of "K", he doesn't score another game for me.
If any item has a correct name, and someone calls it by a similar, but wrong, name, his credibility goes down.
Thanks!
The membership named and defined by the NRA is a Life Membership. The NRA does not define and has no membership category of “lifetime member”.
No one said they did. No caps as used in the post ought to be tip off as to the fact it is not meant as a title or official membership as defined by the NRA or anyone else, or for that matter a specific vehicle such as a Toyota Highlander as opposed to an Uplander. Simply a statement that she is more than likely serious enough about the 2nd Amend as opposed to simply being a hunter that she shelled out the bucks to become a “lifetime member”, or a “member for life” as most of the people reading the post would understand to be what the NRA refers to as having purchased a Life Membership, and the argument certainly doesn’t apply to confusing bullet and cartridge.
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