I've been an NRA member for well over a half century...
I can remember the good times before 1968 when the NRA was most interested in promoting hunting, target shooting and gun collecting.
But then after 1968 and we got president Lyndon Johnson who declared war on the NRA because they wouldn't knuckle under. Johnson wasn't one that ever took prisoners, but going after the NRA was one of the biggest mistakes he ever made for his Democratic Party, and he made some whoppers.
If it wasn’t for the NRA I could have saved some money, because the guns I was able to buy wouldn’t have been there. In numbers, the U.K. National Rifle Association is relatively small, and because of that look what happened there.
The same thing could have happened here – but it didn’t, and if you have any doubts go look and see what the Brady Bunch and they’re buddies have to say about the NRA and what their plans are now.
The truly sad thing is not what the NRA has to do to raise money, but the fact that they have too do it. Since 1968 we have been in a war with America’s left-wing wana’be-socialists who would see each and every one of us disarmed. And our spear point in that war has been the NRA.
From my perspective, if some folks have to be begged for money– especially now that the fight has become so critical, and the NRA need all of the financial support that they can get… Well those folks can just go away, ‘cuz somehow the rest of us will get the job done. The pure fact is that some of us are in this for the long haul, and some just want to go along for the ride.
End of rant.