"Rand Paul-backed group attacks Republicans."
My thoughts? Paul has hitched his reputation to very rickety wagon. Too bad he didn't lend his name to GOA or JPFO. NAGR is nothing but a fund-raising machine for NAGR. In my experience, I've never seen them DO much of anything except send out slick letters that say "the sky is falling so you should send us money."
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Of course, all GOA ever seems to do is send out letters and/or emails saying "look how bad the NRA is! We're so much more 'pure' for gun rights; send us money!"
Never mind that when the hoplophobes mention a pro-2A group with fear and/or hate, it's basically always the NRA...who in this go-round have flat-out said they won't be compromising on "background checks" or magazine restrictions, or anything of the sort.
This is not your daddy's "marksmanship first, politics maybe second" NRA.
Disclaimer: I'm not even a member of the NRA. Expired last year and I was too broke to renew it at the time, and I've been too lazy since then. Gotta fix that as soon as I get the cash handy for one of those discounted Life Memberships.
Cheers.
Doesn't take much searching on the internet to find that Dudley Brown, NAGR's head honcho, is quite the tool.
I don't pay them much mind. And I'm not looking for a Messiah, anyhow. Rand Paul has done some great things and I expect he will do many more. But like his Dad, he's got some warts. Cruz and Lee have more credibility in my mind. At the moment, anyhow. I just hope the three of them (or five, with the addition of Rubio and Inhofe) can hold the line in the Senate on any new gun control bills.
Regarding the GOA, I don't see them as ineffective at all. But it's all a matter of how you look at them. It's kind of analogous to the Tea Party in relation to the GOP. I suspect a large percentage of GOA members are also NRA members. We are the insurgents within the NRA, pushing them to a more constitutional view of the right to keep and bear arms.
What they did the other day is a perfect example. Encourage NRA members to call on the NRA leadership to put pressure on Senators by telling them, publicly, that the NRA will consider a lack of support for the Rand-Lee-Cruz filibuster on gun control a downgrading offense. Yeah, we're talking about, what, three levels of indirection? Still, the NRA is the 800 lbs. gorilla. Would be good to have them actual do the right thing, since in the view of the anti-rights cultists, they are the big bad boogieman.
Yea, NAGR is in it for, well ... NAGR.
Every couple of days there's one or more things in my inbox from them asking for money.
Maybe a class action suit for some kind of wire fraud would be in order? :-)
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