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To: drbuzzard
I respectfully (not saying you're speaking nonsense) disagree with you. I can only conclude that you've never heard the old saying “lay down with dogs and get fleas”.

We have just had a very clear demonstration of what happens when a Judas goat becomes a leader. It is not an accident that the NRA Democrats are from mostly conservative areas. They know that without their NRA bonafides they'd have a hard time getting elected or reelected.

I am not an NRA life member but have lived with one for forty years. I'm not unfamiliar with the organization and it's aims, which I fully support and respect. But I do not speak from a position of ignorance, but rather from one of long observation.

73 posted on 03/28/2010 5:24:29 AM PDT by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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To: pepperdog

> We have just had a very clear demonstration of what happens when a Judas goat becomes a leader. It is not an accident that the NRA Democrats are from mostly conservative areas. They know that without their NRA bonafides they’d have a hard time getting elected or reelected.

>I am not an NRA life member but have lived with one for forty years. I’m not unfamiliar with the organization and it’s aims, which I fully support and respect. But I do not speak from a position of ignorance, but rather from one of long observation.

It has to be understood what the NRA’s agenda is. It’s not conservative politics as a whole, just the RKBA. By the measure of their goals, they are doing just fine. No new gun control legislation has even been considered. Courts are overturning existing gun control statutes which have been in place for years. Concealed Carry keeps expanding across he country with more and more reciprocity.

You expect them for some reason to break with their obviously effective methodology to take up your causes for you. It is not going to happen. Yes, I understand the NRA supports people who could potentially do them harm, but the key word is ‘potentially’. The harm is not happening from a second amendment point of view and that is what matters to the NRA. A single focus organization is just that, single focus.

Honestly I would rather the second amendment be accepted by all parties as untouchable and politics moved on to something else, so I wouldn’t have to worry about the issue. Would such a state of politics bother you?


74 posted on 03/28/2010 6:33:26 AM PDT by drbuzzard (different league)
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