Posted on 07/01/2010 7:08:29 AM PDT by Ogie Oglethorpe
I think a lot of conservatives are doing that right now by kicking the NRA and the GOP to the curb... when they actually do an about face and start walking the conservative walk, then I'll think about rejoining.
Until then my funds only go to individuals and groups that are full in the fight!
I'm gonna take it out, put it in an envelope addressed to Sharron Angle, put the $35 the NRA thought they were going to get from me in it, and put it in the mail.
Then later next month I'm gonna become a lifetime member of GOA.
Hope it doesn't piss anybody off or anything. /s
Uh, couldn't exactly say it was launched by the NRA...
In 2002, Robert A. Levy, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, began vetting plaintiffs with Clark M. Neily III for a planned Second Amendment lawsuit that he would personally finance. Although he himself had never owned a gun, as a Constitutional scholar he had an academic interest in the subject and wanted to model his campaign after the legal strategies of Thurgood Marshall, who had successfully led the challenges that overturned school segregation.[6] They aimed for a group that would be diverse in terms of gender, race, economic background, and age, and selected six plaintiffs from their mid-20s to early 60s, three men and three women, four white and two black:[7]
Shelly Parker – {bio snipped]
Tom G. Palmer – {bio snipped]
Gillian St. Lawrence – {bio snipped]
Tracey Ambeau (now Tracey Hanson) – {bio snipped]
George Lyon – {bio snipped]
Dick Heller – a licensed special police officer for the District of Columbia. For his job, Heller carried a gun in federal office buildings, but was not allowed to have one in his home.[16] Heller had lived in southeast D.C. near the Kentucky Courts public housing complex since 1970 and had seen the neighborhood "transformed from a child-friendly welfare complex to a drug haven". Heller had also approached the National Rifle Association about a lawsuit to overturn the D.C. gun ban, but the NRA declined.
The NRA must have been infiltrated.
I am not surprised by this. Last time Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson (D-Kickback)ran here in the Neborg; the NRA backed him over conservative, pro-life, pro-gun Jon Bruning. Of course, since he had that endorsement, which he prominantly displayed on his ads, he won; just in time to give us the Cornhusker kickback....
The NRA leadership is less short sighted than many of it's members. Do you really want Schumer to be Majority Leader of the Senate?
Then it'll be Chuckie's turn to show America what a putz he is and he can be next after that.
Good on ya. I have met Larry Pratt and was very much impressed by him. His son, Eric, is also a very good man.
I'm not a life member of the GOA, but I have been a member since the late 90s. Also of the SAF, who has done much good work over the years.
I continue to harangue the NRA over their palling around with Harry Reid; if I hear anything new, I will relate it to the group. Not that it will change your mind about them, or prompt you to acknowledge the good work they have done.
Joe, let's be clear. My mind is not closed to renewing my longtime membership in the NRA, but my statement that "I have no plans" to renew does mean what it says, especially after the last telemarketing call I got from the NRA ended in a hangup from the other end after I politely but firmly stated for the third time that I wasn't going to renew right then.
I recognize the good work the NRA has done in the past, especially as part of the 1994 Republican Revolution, which was unfortunately stillborn. For example, the NRA was front and center in putting the late Mike Synar, (D-Oklahoma, Lord rest his soul), out of work after his critical vote in passing the Clinton "assault weapon" ban.
These days, I really don't think I need to enumerate the cases of the NRA's duplicity, treating gun owners the same way the Republican party treats conservatives, i.e. as if they have nowhere else to go.
Some of the anger and name-calling from fellow freepers who don't quite see things the same way some of the rest of us do, particularly those of us who have been paying attention to events in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania, hasn't gone a long ways to make me think otherwise, either.
If this deal with Reid turns out to be as if it appears, (and there are pictures and a puff piece in "America's First Freedom" to support the assertion), the onus isn't on me to prove my loyalty to the NRA. My loyalty is to my rights as recognized by the 2nd amendment. The onus is on the NRA to reaffirm their loyalty to those same rights. Too many Toomey/Specter, Coburn/Rice, Angle/Reid situations to pass the credibility test for me. All these good pro-2a candidates have been undermined by the NRA just trying to make some sort of point to the beltway crowd about "bipartisanship".
The next time you harangue the folks at the NRA, tell them that you know at least one person who'd really like to see the NRA doing some of the same good work it's done in the past and who will consider renewing his membership when they do if the next telemarketing call isn't as rude as the last one was. I really miss The American Rifleman magazine if nothing else.
/rant
The NRA has become in large part a political organization and, like such, can develop a disconnect with those it represents. Which is why we all must harangue together, lest we harangue separately. $;-)
I am sure many on this forum would be more than happy to stay with the NRA should they change their direction, I dropped them in the mid '90s after their support of some anti-2A bills and politicians.
I rejoined early last year due to the high stakes with the Obamanation... but I have told them to cancel my membership (again) after it runs out in a couple of years, I refuse to support a group that sticks its finger in the eye of its membership and the 2A!
As for now I am a GOA Life Member and heavy supporter of SAF, JPFO and my Local/State Group.
Although the NRA has done some good in the past, we cannot continue to support groups that are selling us and the 2A out...
Great post OK - couldn’t have said it better. Take care.
Thanks Ogie, you do likewise.
Thanks for that.
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