Finally joined NRA...

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I let my membership lapse when I was underemployed. I haven't renewed my membership. I'd rather drop the money into other organizations like the VFW.
 
My VFW post also covers Amvets, sons of Amvets, American Legion and VFW Women's Aux.

Also just joined up with the IAVA, so my NRA money went there instead.
 
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I have gotten sick of the every day use of scare tactics. The weather, news, church, insurance companies, financial advisors, the nra, democratic and republican parties. They all say the sky is falling. Well it aint. I have lived through war, disabling disease, a flooded home, bankruptsy, a losing battle with the IRS, unexpected job loss and home forclosure. I am not going to join an organisatioIn that repays me by trying to scare me. I have read of UK shooters saying they wish they had an NRA to keep the government from forcing steel shot on them. Ithink theNRA does some good so I donate some, but I am not going to join them so they can try to scare the hell out of me.
 
Just don't give em your email. You will pay hell with all the various email lists they have. It took me 2 months to get unsubscribed from them all.
 
No bashing of NRA intended. I rather spend my money on something else. It's your money, do what you want.
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Yeah, I'd rather not pay for auto or homeowner's insurance, or lots of other things...but I am a realist, so I do so anyway.

The AARP has 40 million members. They started sending me mail and email when I turned 45. I refuse to join, because they are anti 2A, pro-socialists...but I digress. I may join AMAC one day soon, though...

The NRA has 4 million members... of an estimated 80 million gun owners. If we had 40 million members, we would never again worry about our 2A rights.

The wife and I are NRA Life Members, as well as TSRA Life Members.

If you are a gun owner and are not an NRA member, you are part of the problem.
Period. End of story.

I am putting it off a lot. I have political and job reasons to avoid joining. I'm at a LIBERAL college in MARYLAND and at least have of the students here come from seriously ANTIGUN states and we've had a ban of VIOLENCE on campus. An NRA membership is a huge liability to have hanging around.
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Hmmm...they read minds there? Because you are in unfriendly territory, just bow down and be a good subject...don't bother doing what is right? Really?

we've had a ban of VIOLENCE on campus
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Really? I believe they had a ban on violence at Virginia Tech too...how'd that work out?

I think you've been on campus a bit too long...GroupThink has set in. Try standing up and thinking for yourself, and then do what is right.
 
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How is it you can be over (insert AARP age here) and be a non member without being "part of the problem", but I can't be a non NRA member without being "part of the problem"?

You don't want to join the AARP because you don't agree with some/all of their policies, and that's fine.
I don't want to join the NRA because I don't agree with some of their policies, and that's gun blasphemy.

Can you elaborate on how that works?



FWIW: If I were of age I wouldn't join AARP either, for 90% of the same reasons I'll never join the NRA.
 
I think he is 45 yrs. Old and not ready for AARP. He then wrote that he didn't agree with them politically, but will probably join a similar association one day.

You do not have to agree 100% with an organization to join it. The main thing the NRA does is protect our 2A rights. If you like your guns, this should be important to you. The larger the NRA grows, the more powerful it becomes. No politician wants to piss off a huge group of like minded people. Many politicians, even liberal Democrats steer clear of gun control due to their fear of the NRA. The more $$$ we give the NRA, the better lobbyists they can hire in DC.

I never begrudge my dues to the NRA.
 
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The wife and I are NRA Life Members, as well as TSRA Life Members.

If you are a gun owner and are not an NRA member, you are part of the problem.
Period. End of story.
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Orionengnr,

And the problem is ?

Your statement can be replicated for any activities and organization. "If you love animals and don't join PETA, you're part of the problem., "If you drive more than 3 miles a day and don't join AAA, you're part of the problem.", "If you want to prevent gun violence and don't join the brady campaign, you're part of the problem". And the list goes on and on.....

You have your freedom to join any organization of your choice, enjoy it. Why do you have to belittle others who doesn't join?

But we're digressing from the OP's original posting. I stated an alternative business practice of giving NRA members a range membership discount instead of having people join the NRA as part of their membership criteria. Kind of like giving a military or senior citizens discount. A business should get as many people involved in the activity rather than making a full exclusion.

Your comment?
 
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As I stated in post #7 this would turn into a NRA bashing thread, it did.

For those that do not wish to get all the mailings, call the 800 number on the back of the card and have your address removed from the list.

There's my comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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The opening shots I have noticed on most threads have been directed against the NRA, not from NRA members bashing non-members.

As long as I have been aware of the the gun control issue (starting late 1950s with polemicists like Madison Avenue ad exec Carl Bakal "This Very Day a Gun May Kill You!" and "No Right to Bear Arms"), according to the anti-gunners the only thing blocking a federal version of the New York Sullivan Act being imposed nationwide ("shooting deaths receding to the vanishing point as all the guns are rounded up"-Bakal) or UK style gun control, has been the (boo, hiss) "gun lobby"--the National Rifle Association.

To today's antigunners like John Donohue, NRA is a four letter word. That's reason enuf to donate $35 a year.
 
I originally put off the NRA years and years and years ago because I simply never got around to it. But now that I'm a member, as soon as I know my membership is expiring, I re-up. I think the NRA is worth the money because:

1. They fight for our rights
2. They have offer some free insurance ($2,000 I believe) if anything ever happens to your guns. While this probably won't pay for your entire collection, it's better than nothing.
3. I think American Rifleman is a decent read

And regarding the letters and phone calls asking to renew; you can simply shut that off by going online and selection the option under your account or make a 3 minute phone call and tell them to stop sending you that stuff. Problem solved.
 
You do not have to agree 100% with an organization to join it. The main thing the NRA does is protect our 2A rights. If you like your guns, this should be important to you. The larger the NRA grows, the more powerful it becomes. No politician wants to piss off a huge group of like minded people. Many politicians, even liberal Democrats steer clear of gun control due to their fear of the NRA. The more $$$ we give the NRA, the better lobbyists they can hire in DC.
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Mr. Blue,
Welll said. Could you elaborate more on what 2A rights you believe are at risk? Thanks.
 
OO, You only need to look at history, can't be to difficult.

That was a lame comment!
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A lame comment? Coming from the guy who just won't let it go? Why do you feel the need to clog this thread up? You've said your $.02...just let it go.
 
Why let it go? You have a problem with folks expressing their opinions regarding the work that the NRA does? By your rules are we only to make a single post per thread?
 
Could you elaborate more on what 2A rights you believe are at risk? Thanks.
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Seriously? The NRA does annoy me because of the time and energy they devote to nonsense like sending a "survey" every other week with inane questions like "Do you want us to fight for your gun freedoms?" :rolleyes: Of course I do- that's why I joined the NRA in the first place. (I haven't renewed because of the deluge of junk mail and the NRA tendency to sometimes politically support a weakly or arguably pro-2nd politician who they feel can win over a strongly pro-2nd politician that they feel has much less chance).

U.S. firearm freedoms have been under attack since the late 1800s, especially in many urban areas. There are entire states (such as the one I'm stuck in for the moment, MD) where the right to carry a firearm is curtailed or entirely abrogated. U.S. citizens lost the right to purchase new firearms in the best-behaved (statistically) group of firearms in 1986. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 banned entire classes of new firearms for civilians based on nothing more than cosmetic features, as well as criminalized the sale of new "high capacity" firearms. The ATF, on their own and without any precipitating event, reclassed three semi-automatic shotguns as destructive devices in 1999, forcing owners to follow the same registration and tax provisions as fully automatic weapons. The "sporting purposes" clause used by the ATF is clearly against the intent of the 2nd Amendment...

I sincerely suggest you do some more research so you can ask intelligent questions, unless you're trying to bait (troll).

John
 
I sincerely suggest you do some more research so you can ask intelligent questions, unless you're trying to bait (troll).
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John,
An NRA member stated non-members are part of the problem. I asked what is the problem?

Another NRA member stated NRA protected our 2A rights. I asked what 2A rights he believe need protection.

No trolling or baiting, just wanting to know since their initial answers were vague. You gave historical and good reasons from your perspective. I'm just looking for their rationale.
 
Okay, fair enough.

In recent years, there have been a few fortunate reversals of the trend for our freedoms to be whittled away, in the form of increased state recognition of U.S. citizens' right to carry arms.* MD is, sadly, not one of those.

*I see both positive and negative results from the "paradigm shift" of 9-11. On the one hand, there does seem to be an increased recognition that we as individuals bear the ultimate responsibility for our own protection, instead of relying on "the government" and its employees for that protection. At the same time, we as a country have also lost additional freedoms in the name of "increased security".

John
 
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