BTW, the NRA invented the phrase "workable gun laws", and "Sporting purposes of firearms". The Brady Campaign did not invent those phrases.
Posted on 03/14/2014 3:43:09 AM PDT by from occupied ga
I agree with you. the NRA has been doing a good job.
“When did the NRA ever oppose gun control? They coined the phrase “sporting purposes of firearms”. They wrote and supported every gun control legislation for the past 100 years.”
That is a blatant lie and you know it.
BTW, the NRA invented the phrase "workable gun laws", and "Sporting purposes of firearms". The Brady Campaign did not invent those phrases.
I didn't renew my NRA membership when it expired a couple of years ago and I don't intend to rejoin unless it returns to what it was in the early 1960s when I first joined. NRA served a good purpose back in those days, but somewhere along the way it has changed a lot and no longer represents what most gun owners want most of all. And that is to simply have our 2nd Amendment rights honored and safeguarded by the courts and lawmakers at every level of government, nothing more, nothing less.
The NRA helped create the 1934 NFA. Once I learned of all this I canceled my membership. I always thought anti-firearm groups like the Brady bunch created all those laws and I found out the NRA was always against citizens owning military firearms and only supported the “sporting purposes of firearms”.
The NRA is the original gun ban group.
Would that be because the lobbyists are "hired guns" who don't believe in causes, values, or rights, and are just "doing a job" from 9 to 5 so they can knock off and go have drinks with the opposition lobbyists?
Looks like old Sen. Dodd of Connecticut eventually got everything he wanted. Now, how'd that happen?
What this article writer at NRA did not realize is that now gun owners (even then) were up against liberals, i.e. statists, whose ideology cannot tolerate a free, armed people, and whose methodology is relentless and pitiless with respect to the damage they do to people's rights and to the concept of liberty. They're all about power, even dystopian power in the case of "Progs" (Stalinists) who associate with other grabbers. They just don't care about people and their liberties and their problems.
Possibly, but I suspect they're following the directives from the top. If they didn't they wouldn't keep their jobs.
Having been attacked many times by militantly ignorant FR mouth breathers for my frequent criticism of the NRA as a bunch of sell outs I greatly appreciate your positng these condemnations of the NRA from their own mouths
GOA
Miller was the last of the kind of democrats that used to control the “Solid South” when that meant solidly democratic. All the others have died out, many of them switched to the Republican party long ago with Strom Thurmond being one of the first. In those days the GOP was considered the “libeal” party.
I presume you mean "liberal." That would of course be historically correct. The Party of Lincoln was the first to not only accept blacks (former slaves) as members, they also seated former slaves into the U.S. Congress in the post Civil War era. Democrats (former slave owners) often left the chamber when such a representative was present. Let's not forget the good ol' boys in the RAT party and their connection to the creation of the KKK. This is history that never seems to get repeated in these days of revisionist teachings. This is the true threat of Common Core style programs. Like how the first serious gun control efforts since the American Revolution were aimed (pardon the pun) directly at former slaves in the southern states under the state level black codes and Jim Crow laws of the era. None of these laws was considered to be unconstitutional for over 100 years because the Amendments were solely applicable to the federal government and not the states under the doctrine of incorporation.
“Liberal” used to be a good thing, until the Left hijacked the term.
I did mean liberal of course, unfortunately my fingers seem to have a mind of their own these days. I used to type sixty words a minute on a manual typewriter without errors, now I make sixty errors a minute on an electric keyboard. I usually proofread about fourteen times before posting but I failed at proofreading on that one.
Modern technology is so great, in my youth I never imagined that one day my typos would be made available to so many people.
So, you're saying that William McKinley and Calvin Coolidge were liberals?
Are you saying that anything other than the Calhounian "compact" theory is liberal?
No, I am saying that in the days when the term “Solid South” referred to the southern states voting reliably for democrats the Republicans were considered to be the liberal party by people in those Southern states, nothing more, nothing less. Of course liberal, in those days, had nothing to do with the current madness of global warming propaganda, gays openly serving in the military, Obamacare, abortion etc. both parties would have been aghast at what liberal means today.
Well, I dunno about that one. It depends on how far back you want to go. I suppose the Founding Fathers could be considered "liberal" perhaps even radical. But I was born in 1957. My father was born in Moscow, Russia within the (extended) family of the Czar in 1907. He passed in 1980. I was raised knowing that the terms "political left," "liberal" and "communist" all had similar meanings. I was also raised from infancy to understand the critical importance of the 2nd Amendment to our enduring freedoms or lack thereof. With all due respect to our shift dedicated to this site from the NSA, I won't detail what my dad used to hammer into my head as to what to do if anybody ever tried to take away our firearms. Let me just say that my dad would have really liked our very own Travis McGee and the series of books we've all come to know and love. EFAD
The bottom line is, in general bosses don't believe the schlubs who slave for them and whom they regularly abuse should have firearms -- it's as simple as that. If I rough up and push a guy regularly because I think he can't quit and can't say no, I may miscalculate, sooooo...... better to let the Communists broom the firearms off the street and wipe out the stiffnecked, because that works for me.
That's putting it as bluntly as possible, for the benefit of folks in Rio Linda.
Pew's scholars looked for people like the Bush family to turn on us and help the 'Rats strip our 2A rights, something that hasn't jelled yet. If we don't put away the gun lobby for good this time around, that possibility may come up again later.
You can tell it's a RiNO wanting to grab your guns when he uses key-words like "sensible" and "public safety" and "good government" a lot.
"Good government" is RiNO-speak for BOHICA.
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