So I have an NRA sticker on my truck. Every so often at work when I come out to break at the picnic table we have outside the shop. There will be someone like whos truck is that. I'll say mine and the anti gun propaganda speech will take place. Just wondering if anyone else gets b.s. for being an NRA member.
A few years back I was wearing my NRA Second Amendment "The Original Homeland Security" T shirt and went into a local video store. Little girl in the store pops off and asks me if I was a "Bush Lover" Now me being the wise *** that I am was going to say, "of course I'm a Bush lover" but decided that discretion would be the better part of valor and told her that if she was referring to my constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms then "Yes I am"
I am not an NRA member. Ben is and I was just a little uncomfortable when they offered to insure our guns. I'm not saying that it is, or is not, a legitimate offer... but I do know I won't be having a list of all of our firearms ANYWHERE.
No. If I were a non NRA member I'd respect their position even though I may disagree. It's always good to respect anothers opinion but ignorant to disrepect it. In a free country your rights stop where the other person begin and vis-versa. I'd likely just say kiss my ass, or from my cold dead hands.
I am not an NRA member. Ben is and I was just a little uncomfortable when they offered to insure our guns. I'm not saying that it is, or is not, a legitimate offer... but I do know I won't be having a list of all of our firearms ANYWHERE.
The NRA is not a perfect organization, but I don't know of one that is. The NRA in my opinion, while not perfect, has done more, over the years, to preserve our second amendment rights than any other person, or organization.
Hmmm... well, they asked for a list in the letter we received. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it wasn't something I was comfortable with. No big deal. He's still a member, we just didn't get the insurance.
Hmmm... well, they asked for a list in the letter we received. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it wasn't something I was comfortable with. No big deal. He's still a member, we just didn't get the insurance.
Well, I've been wrong before, but I've never been asked to submit any list, or description, except for firearms valued at over $2500. I'm old... maybe things have changed since then... :smt1099
I live in a *******,cowboy podunk town but I don't advertise guns on my vehicles because of the whacked out cities around.I do wear T-shirts that have to do with Harley,biker bars or guns.If an anti gunner gives me their typical brainwashed crap,I politely say our Constitution gives you the right to your beliefs and opinions like it gives me the right to protect me and my family,so please don't cry for help when when you are being assaulted because I surely wouldn't want to offend your beliefs by possibly shooting someone.Call the cops,that's what they're for right?The deer in the headlights look is priceless.
On a morbid note,one less perveyor of spewing sewage and maybe just a little more of what good oxygen is left for the rest of us.
I dropped NRA when they became all about the NRA instead of the 2nd and gun owners.
The GOA is only slightly better.I will just stay aware of whats transpiring and ..................well, from my cold dead fingers....
I don't generally advertise my gun ownership, since the element of surprise is part of the cc thing. Also, I've heard too many stories about local police hasseling gun owners. Just because it's my right doesn't mean they can't detain me for three hours.
I will apologize in advance for this comment. It is not my intention to try and convince anybody of anything, but I will put out my opinion on the NRA. I am not anti-NRA, and I am a member, but I don't like the current leadership.
The NRA has lost its way. It is supposed to be supporting gun owners with training, sporting events, range designs, liability insurance, legal support on major court cases, gun safety and helping manufacturers to keep weapons reliable and with maximum safety in addition to protecting our gun rights. The NRA range at HQ is overcrowded and insufficient. There is no separate handgun and long gun and shotguns must only use slugs. There is no NRA shotgun facility. The NRA should help to create state of the art ranges and virtual ranges and active training academies at the local level. Gander Mountain has better facilities than the NRA...that's not right.
They use all our membership money for political advocacy at the national level. The truth is most of the political work needs to be done at the State and County levels where laws and regulations are enacted that create restrictions on gun owners that the national government has nothing to say about. I am not saying they shouldn't be working on national politics, but defeating Obama should not be the prime goal of the NRA....and it looks like it to me.
The prime goal of the NRA needs to be taking care of its MEMBERS through gun-related programs and lobbying States to rollback gun restrictions while supporting safety programs.
The NRA liability insurance and gun insurance and discount programs are good things that need to be improved as well.
LaPierre has it out for Obama and he can spend his own money if that's his thing...not ours.
The only time people give me grief is when NRA advocacy seems to have nothing to do with guns and when their Public Relations tactics stretch the truth. To be taken seriously they have to make credible statements and quoting the 2nd Amendment doesn't win anybody over. They need credible responses to issues.
No one gives me grief, I don't advertise who I support and who I don't, except CZ firearms, I wear there swag when I shoot. However, if the NRA is out to defeat Obama and run him out of town then good on them. It certianly doesn't even the score with all the groups and news and media outlets hell bent on keeping the goofball in office.
I am not in a position to tell any orginization what their prime goal needs to be. Why should the NRA have any of the things described as what they should have. Do they promise it in their mission statement? Wanting something doesn't mean a group should provide it for you, nor does it make it not right.
On a seperate note......I belong to a few orginizations, well maybe not adctual orginizations, that TEDtheHellBEAR belongs too and I consider his participation an endorsement.
.....On a seperate note......I belong to a few orginizations, well maybe not adctual orginizations, that TEDtheHellBEAR belongs too and I consider his participation an endorsement....
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