…concepts of liberty (being able to make your own choices concerning yourself and your family), property rights, laws against illegal search and seizure…
And that’s one of the many problems with the NRA: it has abandoned its original mission of firearms and firearms training and instead immersed itself in all things politics, supporting candidates for public office hostile toward one making his own choices concerning oneself and his family.
NRA apologists will argue, of course, that comprehensive political involvement is necessary to oppose the enactment of new firearm regulatory measures and defend the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment, but how can one in good faith support candidates for public office who defend the Second Amendment right while opposing other rights and protected liberties, advocating for more government interfering in citizens private lives.
Years ago when the NFA of 1933, the Gun Control Acts of 1938 and '68 were being passed, the N. R. A. was really doing nothing much in the political pressure arena, and it's members complained.
So the N. R. A. Got into the wider political game, and the ILA came along ....
Now decades later, people are complaining the N. R. A. is TOO political.
What is an organization to do when IT JUST CANNOT WIN?? ?
I don't know what other rights that we supposedly possess that the N. R. A. is trying to oppress. I will not claim they are not doing it, but I sure haven't seen it for myself.
One reason why the organization is so into politics is it is politicians who are making laws, and while republicans are not always 2A friendly, most of the most severe antigun laws are coming from/being proposed by left wing Democrats like Eric Swalwell, Diane Feinstein, and the several contenders for the Democrat presidential candidate.
I do not always support the NRA. They are, like it or not, the velociraptor in the bunny-rabbit fight, and accomplish a lot. I also give money to the GOA, and other pro 2A organizations .... but, yes, I give $$$ to the NRA.
In the midst of nacent democratic socialism, extreme gun grabber proposals (re.: Eric Swalwell) we must not allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good!
Please.....?????