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I agree with that article 110%. I think it's appalling that there are over 80 MILLION gun owners in this country, and only 4 million belong to the NRA. The only thing more sickening is to listen to all their stupid crap as to why they don't join! Bill T.
 
Yep sure...... That $35 goes along way towards surviving. I could join the NRA but then I would be starving buy hey I got my NRA window sticker. It sickens you that people think there are more important things. Like food, shelter, or fuel in the car. It has been claimed that $35 isn't that much. Well at $5/hour that's just about a day's pay. It sickens me that someone would claim they are incapable of voicing their oppions. That they must pay someone to do it for them. And articles such as the one linked to ain't gaining you any brownie points. You call someone an a-hole for not being a member. Do you realy expect them to join after you've just insulted them in such a manner? Let's break it down:

Sure, you drive around in a pickup truck with a gunrack and some hairy-chested bumper stickers, and you talk big at the gun shop or the Legion Hall.
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Am I the only one who sees that this is the same stereo type used by the anti-gun types?


But will you shell out 35 bucks and join the NRA?
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So now you are trying to tell me how to spend MY MONEY of which I worked hard to earn. I earned it I can spend it however I damn well please ,

Whether you like it or not, the NRA is the only...I repeat ONLY, effective representation you have in the cesspool of Washington politics.
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One word... ARROGANCE
....and if you don't understand that simple fact, you're too dumb to exist!
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Not winning any converts this way.
download a text copy of this article
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Trying not to laugh at the predictability of this.

...If you don't vote in the next election, your enemies will elect a president who will be able to name three or four new Supreme Court justices. Which means that by the 2004 election, you will have no guns. And shortly after that, you will have no vote and no rights....
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Does anyone else see the scare tactics used here? Acatuly it was more like a rant much the same as we see from the likes of the brady bunch.
 
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The crux of the biscuit is to vote. You don't have to agree with anything else that was thrown in your face in that article. I didn't voice any opinion on the material contained in the link, but you have to at least acknowledge the power we could wield, if we all united and voted pro-gun, this next Nov.7th.:)
 
If every gun owner voted accordingly it would have far greater impact then just sending $30 to the NRA every year. The NRA is just a poster boy. Who makes up the NRA? Gun owners. The anti-guner always blame the NRA when a gun law fails. But when you get down to brass tacks what realy kills the gun laws is that the NRA or GOA or JPFO or like organizations sent out letters and THE GUN OWNERs emailed, snailed mailed or whatever there congress men. This action on the part of citisens is what kills laws. While The NRA, GOA, etc., is an effective rallying cry it is nothing without private citisens acting on the issues. And to top it off voting costs very little. It costs what maybe $5 worth of fuel to drive to the polls?
 
"It has been claimed that $35 isn't that much. Well at $5/hour that's just about a day's pay."

"It costs what maybe $5 worth of fuel to drive to the polls?

So your minimum wage gun owner can afford to own and drive a car to the polls to vote, but can't "afford" to join the NRA because, "That's just about a day's pay." Forget politics, you need a lesson in economics. Bill T.
 
"If every gun owner voted accordingly it would have far greater impact then just sending $30 to the NRA every year."

Why not do both? According to your figures your looking at a grand total of $40.00. Pretty cheap to assure your Second Ammendment rights. Minimum wage or not. Bill T.
 
"It costs what maybe $5 worth of fuel to drive to the polls?
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Hate to tell you, but I voted by absentee ballot today, and it cost me 39 cents. Why waste the gas when the mailman is coming here anyway?

Which means that by the 2004 election, you will have no guns.
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Um, seems to me the 2004 elections have come and gone, and I think it's a fair guess that everyone here still has their firearms.
 
I'm backing Shotgun on this one. I'm a supporter of the NRA and strongly appreciate what they do. I used to even be a member, but I let it lapse. That being said I don't think joining the NRA makes you a good or bad gun owner, it just means you might not wanna shell out your hard earned money to a political group, even if it is a group you believe in.

I don't want anyone telling me how to spend my money, especially not some jerk writing a column and insulting people. :mad:

Well, you know what? That's a dumb cop-out and you're an *******.
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Oh yea I'm gonna go right out and do what this yahoo tells me since he asked so nicely! Gimme a friggin' break.:rolleyes:
 
While I heartily support the NRA and applaud their actions at every opportunity... I sincerely believe the organization has lost touch with its members and has become a de facto lawyer organization with no ties to hunters, shooters, or home owners that use firearms. Instead the organization, in order to preserve gun rights, has become a lobbying lawyer entity...

That may be fine to preserve gun rights, but what about member rights. I suppose I am not phrasing this correctly but... what does the NRA do for me? I know they send me my window sticker or baseball hat, and they send me a magazine, but what will they do for me if I am arrested for carrying a concealed weapon? Any help there? Will the NRA help me find open unposted land so I can hunt with my son? Will the NRA provide financial assistance so I can buy a good over/under shotgun to go trap shooting? See where I am getting at... what does the NRA do for me?

As I said, I fully support the NRA but as a members organization it does little. That is a big problem and is the main reason I let my membership lapse...
 
All of you that say you support the NRA but are not members are full of it.
I wouldn't be surprised if you're all plants. I don't think I'm paranoid. If you knew anything about the NRA, you would also know of all the progams they have to keep the shooting sports going. For example if you want to CCW they have safety courses taught by certified instuctors who volunteer their time. Kudos to those instructors they also pay their membership dues. They have lots of other programs such as hunter ed, and they will direct you to available places to shoot if you look or ask. I really think that we have spies here. Beware of someone with a cool username they may turn out to be a wolf amongst the sheep. If we don't vote or support the NRA, we are the sheeple.
 
I vote - already did it.

The only thing more sickening is to listen to all their stupid crap as to why they don't join! Bill T.
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I live on a VA disability and can't afford it. If that's "stupid crap" to you - too bad.
 
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