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A few days ago I was at a restaurant I go to 3-4 a week and my friend asks the waitress "What do you think of the NRA?" Now he grew up with the waitress so he did this just to bust my chops. She fires right back "I hate the NRA?" Now I resort to Rule #1 STAY CALM!!!!. I ask her what kind of information has she gathered to reach such a strong position as to hate a particular group. She then informs me she doesn't know anything about the NRA just that guns are bad and weapons that kill people and why does anybody need a weapon :banghead: :banghead: .

I then fall back onto my guns aren't weapons but tools discussion in as quiet and polite manner as I can. She finally just starts apologizing for offending me because she knows she doesn't have a leg to stand on.


Well the next day I am back there and she has the GALL to ask me "Are you a rascist?" (I am a caucasian). Well I startred laughing so hard I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes and she starts asking me "What?" over and over. When I finally stop laughing at her IGNORANCE I go back to Rule #1 STAY CALM!!. And ask her "Why do you think that?" And she said Well you belong to the NRA and I have a stereotype of what you guys are like. And I asked what were we like and she couldn't give me a straight answer because she started to get nervous. My friend then tells her of one time where this guy we knew told me how he doesn't approve of whites and blacks marrying and how it's wrong. When this guy told me I told him off and never spoke to him again. My best friend is not only my brother in law but he is also black. I say this because I hate these ignorant people who think that if you own a gun and belong to the NRA you must be some ignorant redneck from the woods who married a close relative and never got passed the 3rd grade.

I am the only one in my family into the shooting sports (I have 3 brothers and one sister), I am also the only one in my family who graduated college with a Bachelors Degree. I am well eduacated read a book at least every 2 weeks and numerous other periodicals and am the most open minded person I know and because I belong to one club I am labeled.


Sorry for the rant but now I feel better.


What other stereotypes do you think sheeple have about NRA members?




Proud to be a Life Member of the National Rifle Association.
 
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NRA = psychopaths around here, apparently.... :scrutiny: :uhoh: :rolleyes:


It's not fun to be discriminated and feared for no reason, without question or hope of changing it.
 
I suppose that pretty much sums it up. It seems a lot of the antis and "casual" RKBA types think the NRA is a hard pro-gun organization, when of course THRers know different.
 
One of MY Standard Replies

"You may have a point there. But why just stop with guns?

After all, we know that thousands more people each year die because of drunk drivers. And of course, since cars kill people we should therefore get all these Cars off the streets and ban them. Since drunks drive cars and there's plenty of public transportation available, I don't see why anyone needs a car - do you??"
 
"What other stereotypes do you think sheeple have about NRA members?"

Well, there's the old, "The NRA WANTS criminals to have guns!" idiocy. Generally thrown out by those who want to ban certain (all?) guns and used against those who would rather ban criminals than guns.
 
You should see the looks I get from some people when they see a nra sticker,nra instructor sticker,and nra rso sticker on the back window of my truck,then see that the driver is black.:D :neener: :what: :evil:
 
When I go to a NRA convention I rarely see any blacks there. Just a lot of old white guys.

I cannot remember ever seeing a black in a photograph in any gun magazine like AR, SWAT, G&A, CH, AH or whatever.

Yeah, I'd say the NRA has some racist attributes.
 
When I go to a NRA convention I rarely see any blacks there.
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You've never seen Roy Innis at an NRA convention? Karl Malone?

Both of those guys were on the Board of Directors at one point and Innis used to give seminars pretty frequently at those conventions. I don't know if former Congressman and OU quarterback J.C. Watts is still involved with the NRA at high levels but he has addressed some conventions in the past also.

Yeah, I'd say the NRA has some racist attributes.
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Like what?
 
"Yeah, I'd say the NRA has some racist attributes."

Now wait just a minute. Just because you see few racial minorities in gun-oriented magazine photos, that doesn't mean the NRA is a racist organization. Figure it out. There is no place on the NRA application to note race. There are no mandatory meetings. How could anyone in the NRA know a member's race so as to discriminate against him?

Tim
 
Yeah, I'd say the NRA has some racist attributes.
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You know, now that you mention it, I can't remember the last time I saw an Eskimo in American Rifleman. Or a Mongolian. Laplanders are curiously absent. Not one Mauri that I can remember. Just because the NRA is overwhelmingly comprised of middle-aged rural white males doesn't mean it can't be more multicultural in its publications.</sarcasm>
Oh, wait, TROLL ALERT!
 
Odd conclusion

I cannot remember ever seeing a black in a photograph in any gun magazine like AR, SWAT, G&A, CH, AH or whatever.
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Yeah, I'd say the NRA has some racist attributes.
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You don't see black folks in gun magazines so therefore "the NRA has some racist attributes"? That's amazing.

I fail to see the logic.

I don't care if you're black, red, white, yellow or whatever. If we had 10,000,000 NRA members instead of 3-4 million, we could focus on the shooting sports, marksmanship, self-defense, etc., and not worry so much about politics.

As a recruiter, I'll take your $25 and send it in. I don't care what your color is. You're a gun owner, or perhaps you're not and you simply believe in freedom. That's the glue that binds us. That's what brings us to this forum, and that's why we stick together.

The NRA discriminates against no race. Most human beings, including gun owners, are not racist, either.

It's amazing that things can get stated and thus assumed to be fact. Anti-freedom people restate false statements over and over again. This is how the gun-owner hating crowd actually claims legitimacy. They bash the NRA and gun owners in general as being 'nuts' and 'racists'. Let's not fall into this trap by repeating their rhetoric.

Remember to take a kid shooting.
 
Actually, there's a black guy (shooting instructor) in either this month or last month's SWAT (serious looking guy with an AR-15). :)
 
I suppose that pretty much sums it up. It seems a lot of the antis and "casual" RKBA types think the NRA is a hard pro-gun organization, when of course THRers know different.
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Unfortunately I know hunters that think the NRA is a "radical, nuts" group. During the Scott Woodring fiasco in Michigan a co-worker got wind of it and said, "I bet he's probably one of them nutty NRA guys!" I laughed and pulled my NRA card out of my wallet.
 
I know many members of this board in person, and they are almost uniformly the least prejudicial human beings I have ever met. Somehow the NRA apparently forgot to issue us our white sheets. (My membership packet also did not include the chain to keep my barefoot arse in the kitchen, either. ;) )
 
I know several peole who are NRA members and none have racial discrimination issues that I have seen or heard. It may be a cultural thing that defines your typical NRA member but in my observation it surely is not racially biased. I am an NRA member and actively encourage people to join but I do not parade it around to those who I feel would not understand or sheep.


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WT, the NRA was founded by UNION officers. People who risked their own skin to defeat the racism of the CSA.

Talk is talk, but the founders of the NRA walked the walk, not just talked the talk.:) To bring it into more modern times, look at just one prominent NRA leader's work for civil rights in the '60s, Charlton Heston.

The gun culture goes beyond race, religion, regionalism, SES, educational level, etc. Just look at the diversity of THR!:D
 
NRA's a " whites only"?


Bullcookies! We have over 100 members in our little gun club, and that includes any color you are, and just about every profession.

You should have seen the look when a couple of college professers met at the range, ( by accident) for the first time, and found out that they both shot.:what:

One told me that he had kept his interests in guns quiet until he got tenure. Bummer. Gun supporters are from every race, color, and creed. Heck, we even have a few Democrats in the club!:D
 
It is silly... im not even in the NRA but when i mention to others around here (New England) That i go shooting and that im going to buy some guns they look at me like im white trash. They go into some diatribe about guns are bad, and youll shoot a niehborhood kid, and what kind of people use guns and all this vile crap. I dont understand the pathology of such ideas... do you think its "hopolophobia?" Ive seen people break out in a sweat just THINKING about being around guns.
 
Uh, how about Bob Cottrol?

Look for his essay "Gun Control is Racist, Sexist, and Classist."

He is a self-described black liberal Democrat who makes just about all the NRA conventions.


How about the following?

http://www.tenthcavalrygunclub.org/


How about Robert F. Williams? U of Florida did a documentary film on him recently. He was a black civil rights activist who advocated the "by any means necessary" position.

Guess who trained Robert F. Williams and helped him train other blacks to use guns?

That'd be the NRA.....

Hillbilly
 
I was reading a surfing magazine the other day. Guess what, no blacks. Must be racist.

Hockey Magazine - no blacks - must be racist

Jet Magazine - no whites - must be racist

Care to make any other easily disproved generalizations? :)
 
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