Pros and Cons of NRA membership

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I cannot understand the mentality of a gun owner who will not join the NRA.

I am a Patron Member, and have never been called by them. It might be because I never gave them my phone number. I get mail from the NRA at least once a week, and probably donate about once a month.

I think most people who don't join the NRA really just cheap bastards who don't want to spend the money, and use politics, junk mail, and phone calls as their excuses why they don't join.
 
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So my question to NRA members; Do you agree with everything they lobby for or against?
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The NRA-ILA is a single-issue org and on that issue they and I are in complete agreement. On behalf of what other issues do you believe that the NRA-ILA lobbies?
 
So my question to NRA members; Do you agree with everything they lobby for or against?
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No.

Of course, I don't agree with my wife sometimes, too - maybe I should get divorced since I don't agree with her 100% of the time. :rolleyes:

Heck, she gets alot more of my money than the NRA!
 
Lots of pro-gun people have issues with NRA. Will they take a stand on every issue I want them to take a stand on? No.

But they are the most effective voice for gun rights - they reach out to the most voters and legislators listen to them. Why else would the Congress have told Obama and Holder to shut up about gun infringements?

A Self-Inflicted Gun Wound

Why is Attorney General Eric Holder backing away from an assault weapons ban?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/191037/page/1


TERROR WATCH
A Self-Inflicted Gun Wound

Why is Attorney General Eric Holder backing away from an assault weapons ban?


After fierce resistance from the gun lobby and its allies in Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder has dialed back talk about reimposing a federal assault weapons ban to help curb the spiraling violence in Mexico. . . .

Speaking at a Feb. 25 news conference announcing a roundup of Mexican cartel members in the United States, Holder endorsed reinstituting the ban on assault weapons—a position that President Obama himself supported during last year's campaign. A federal ban on high-powered, semi-automatic assault weapons, originally passed by Congress in 1994, expired five years ago.

"There are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder said in response to a question from a Mexican reporter. "I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico at a minimum." Holder then ducked a follow-up question about whether he expected Congress to act on a renewed ban this year, saying, "I'm not sure exactly what the sequencing will be" on legislative issues that the Obama administration presses on Capitol Hill.

But his comments roused the gun lobby. The National Rifle Association quickly sent out "action alerts" to its members. Sixty-five House Democrats signed a letter saying they would oppose any new ban—as did Montana's two Democratic senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester. "Senators to Attorney General Holder: Stay Away From Our Guns," read a press release sent out by Baucus's office. In addition, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid both shot down the idea that Congress would take up any new assault weapons ban this year.
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So my question to NRA members; Do you agree with everything they lobby for or against?
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Of course not, that's why it's important to be a member.

They don't make policy decisions based on what non members think.
 
So my question to NRA members; Do you agree with everything they lobby for or against?
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Probably not.

I guess I'll then ask you, is there ANYTHING they lobby for or against that you could support?

Certainly.



When you find the all perfect pro-RKBA lobbying group, join the other three members there and let us know how they will change the world.
 
Jorg

Thanks man, for the ascetic satire and sarcasm. You may have alienated many more readers than you intended to get a smirk from. Your attitude, to me (opinion here) is just like the NRA top-gun officials. No regard for feelings. Where can the rest of us vote on moderators' continued existence? Just an opinion.
To LonelyGunman (alias) your PPA as reflected in, :...I think most people who don't join the NRA really just cheap bastards who don't want to spend the money..." is just one more nail in the coffin of the Elitist group of Lifers and Endowers on the site. I hope those kind don't run the site. I think you have ruined the site. I wouldn't call ANYONE a bastard to his face. Come and do it in mine. And I'm Scots, therefore genetically "cheap" (and superior.)
 
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They don't make policy decisions based on what non members think.
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Well stated.

The National Rifle Association quickly sent out "action alerts" to its members.
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Another good reason to join. I'm on the internet quite a bit and I still miss important gun legislation. The NRA on a national scale and TSRA on a state level send me emails about pending laws with the phone numbers and addresses of my representatives.

This isn't the best reason to join, as I could do the research myself, but it is an added benefit and helps keep me up to date on gun laws that will effect me.
 
I can see no downside to NRA membership, even if I don't always agree 100 percent with each and every stance that its leadership takes on each and every issue that comes along. In a phrase, so what? The NRA is the last bastion that keeps the lion at bay. It needs our support; in fact, it needs the support of all of us ... and a whole lot more of us besides.
 
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When you find the all perfect pro-RKBA lobbying group, join the other three members there and let us know how they will change the world.
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If I joined a lobbying group, it would no longer be perfect! Besides, I am not so sure I would want to be associated with a group that would allow the likes of me to be a member. :D
 
To LonelyGunman (alias) your PPA as reflected in, :...I think most people who don't join the NRA really just cheap bastards who don't want to spend the money..." is just one more nail in the coffin of the Elitist group of Lifers and Endowers on the site. I hope those kind don't run the site. I think you have ruined the site. I wouldn't call ANYONE a bastard to his face. Come and do it in mine.
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Sorry if I hurt your feelings, no need to make threats.
 
Y'know these NRA threads come and go here on THR and they always tend to get a little heated. This begs the question as to why? You aren't forced to join the NRA, if you are looking for people of like mind but limited efficacy, there are plenty of other orgs to join.
 
Involuntary Funding

My biggest objection to the NRA is the way they levy membership dues regardless of what you say or think, and have it taken directly out of your pay.

And then they take that money and fund all manner of stuff that I deplore -- stuff I would never support if I had any say in the matter.

And then there's the way they goad Congress into proposing restrictive firearms legislation. I mean, really! The nerve!

In fact, if I were allowed to, I'd never send them another dime, but every time I look at my pay stub, some 30% of my income has been siphoned off into their coffers. And then that money goes to fund the campaign against my right to bear arms.

I wish there was some organization I could join that would at least -- if nothing else -- have some clout in Congress as a simple function of its membership numbers alone. I mean, at least that would be something.

If that organization never did another thing for me -- if they never ran another youth shooting program, if they never did any more hunter and shooter safety classes, if they never trained any more instructors, if they never funded another court case that preserved my rights directly -- I think I'd join them just for the numbers.

Sadly, there's no national organization like that.

But, hey, wouldn't it be cool if there was? I mean, can you imagine, millions of members? That would have some clout up there on "the hill."

Well, I can dream, can't I?

 
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Life Member NRA here. Colorado Springs Friends of the NRA banquet committee as well. Was with the Friends of the NRA banquet in Arkansas when I lived there. I will die a member.
 
Because at the end of the day the NRA is the biggest, and the one with weight. If your circumstances allow, join them all. That would be the best approach.
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My favorite is JPFO, and if I had the money I'd rejoin it, and the GOA, but since my funds are limited I'm working on paying off my NRA life membership now. Life isn't perfect, and you do the best you can. Right now the NRA is the most effective so that's where your money and energy should go.

So my question to NRA members; Do you agree with everything they lobby for or against?
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No.

Of course, I don't agree with my wife sometimes, too - maybe I should get divorced since I don't agree with her 100% of the time.

Heck, she gets alot more of my money than the NRA!
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Amen to that one brother!:eek:
 
By all means stand-up and be counted for what you believe. Hinding and acting scared is allowing the goverment to make you a second class citizen. This nation was founded by people who risk everything for freedom are you willing to roll over and play dead?
 
Wow this has been exciting, almost like the .9mm vs 45acp, or the Glock vs (fill in the blank). Temper tantrums, threats, did so did not arguments all ostensibly because an organization cannot provide a 100% of what everyone wants or agrees with. Wish someone would point out such a group, politician or organization that does that. By the way which is better the .9mm or the .45acp ?
 
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