vito said:Looking for ideological purity before committing a small annual membership fee is truly self defeating and irrational.
That's true beyond 2d Am. issues and bears repeating, so I will.
Political organizations aren't exclusive clubs. People who treat them as clubs mistake the goal of the organization, effecting a result from government, for their personal goal of using membership to signal their personal virtue to others.
Yesterday at my club, a suburban mayor asked Corey Lewandowski how that mayor could continue to be a republican when (listing several examples of presidential behavior he didn't like). That mayor is a smart man, but his question wasn't smart.
One need not like every last thing the NRA does to recognise the beneficial role it plays in protecting your rights.