Doesn't mean they've earned my membership back - that won't happen while Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox are still around - but most of us need to be fair about all this stuff all the time, don't we?
One would think. But lately it seems like a lot of folks here are ready to toss the NRA off a cliff, on 'principle'.
I'm all for having principles, and have some big ones of my own, but I don't see those 'principles' doing a whole lot of good when we're all sitting in the gulag.
Politics is an ugly game, complicated and dirty, and beyond the comprehension of a lot of folks here. Of course, that doesn't keep them from screaming "Off with their heads!" at every opportunity.
The thing is the NRA wasn’t employing any type of grand scheming to save free speech and the Republic from the Dems.....they were throwing lock, stock, and barrel in with them to quell free speech for a political back scratching of their own. That it didn’t (yet) get through is not some reason to pat the NRA on the back because they were fully prepared and comfortable with it doing so once they got theirs.
Yes, the NRA has gotten too comfy with the “establishment” without a doubt. The leadership has been in place too long. They’ve moved from being a “single issue” organization to a “single right” entity.......all other rights are now seemingly on the table for them so long as they get a friendly deal to squawk to their members about. Sickening it has become........