Sipsey Street Irregulars: Controversy points to value of NRA director transparency, gun owner involvement

Monday, December 16, 2013

Controversy points to value of NRA director transparency, gun owner involvement

Agree or disagree with Webb’s opinions, support or reject his speculative candidacy if and when he makes it official, gun owners would be better served if all NRA Directors were so open about where they stand, and importantly, so accessible to receiving communications and so committed to providing feedback. That is, assuming they’re interested in learning such information and engaged enough to actually do something constructive with it.

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Anonymous said...: Love or hate the NRA, one has to admit the NRA board does have the appearance of a wine & cheese society for the wealthy and influential.; December 16, 2013 at 4:47 PM
Anonymous said...: I would not vote for this fellow for the NRA board, due to several philosophical differences. What is interesting is that he does put his views out in the open, so people can see if they agree with him or not. All prospective board members should do this as a matter of course. It is not like we have a chance to know them personally.

I just sense a vague uneasiness about his apparently European-influenced view on firearms ownership; ie, okay for the specially trained, the operators, etc., but not for the average individual. Just seems to elitist to me.; December 16, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Anonymous said...: The simple fact of the matter is that many of the nominees for NRA Director don't even bother to mention The Second Amendment in their biographical statement. That's because it's just not on their list of priorities, or of the members who's votes they're trying to attract. As I have pointed out here and on David's blog back when Examiner allowed such things, the NRA is not, has never been, and probably never will be a Second Amendment focused organization. That's just the way it is, not because I like it, or because Wayne LaPierre likes it, but because the majority of the 5 million members don't bother to make it one.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gun-lobby-who-got-elected-the-nra-board

http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/05/04/nra-board-elections-a-few-facts-figures/

Makes a grown man almost cry when you figure what a few 3%'ers could do to make the NRA into a real 2A organization, but I guess there's no more interest in that than there is interest in 2A in the NRA.

Kinda sad when you think about it.

Reminds me of Country Joe at Woodstock: "I don't know how you ever expect to stop a war if you can't sing any louder than that!"

But just for a moment close your eyes and imagine the NRA Board gathering around the dais and in strides none other than David Codrea toting his "significant award"! ;-); December 16, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Yank lll said...: The NRA was "chosen" by our domestic enemy as their negotiator because they were already infiltrated and partially compromised. We should disband the NRA and all of its wastefulness and go forward with a real representative chosen by Americans.. I am sure they don't speak for me, you will have to make your own judgement.

Yank lll; December 16, 2013 at 5:45 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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