I joined the NRA to show support for the 2nd Amendment.
Who runs it is irrelevant.
Ditto that. Could be the collision of two my way or the highway personalities. Don’t care, as long as the objectives of the organization are being met.
...”I joined the NRA to show support for the 2nd Amendment.
Who runs it is irrelevant.”...
The deal with Ollie and his consulting group was explained to me this a.m., and sounds to me like Ollie’s stance would have really hurt the NRA. Glad he is out.
I agree! The NRA needs 20 million members, not 5.5 million. This is the only organization that the ‘tards and gungrabbers fear!
Roger that.
That is much how I see it, although I have long admired Oliver North and would rather have seen him come out on top.
I don’t see an issue with the NRA being a shill for the firearm industry as long as they support the 2nd Amendment faithfully.
We cannot have a 2nd Amendment if we allow the firearm industry to be destroyed, which is the primary objective of the Left. If they were honest and believed their own crap, they would support a repeal of the amendment.
But they know that won’t happen. So they are focused on what Leftists do, which is removing the ability of people (via extraconstitutional methods) to exercise those Constitutional rights by building increasing walls of cost, legislation, and societal disapproval around the observation and exercise of those rights.
In this case, one facet is by removing the ability to purchase firearms by putting the gun manufacturers out of business, making them so costly to obtain that regular people cannot do it, increasing the costs of ammunition and licensing, attacking the credit cards and banks used to buy them or provide capital to the industry, boycotting vendors, and so on.
Anyone who fights that, even (or especially) an industry who simply wants to make money selling the firearms...I support.