The NRA is busy spending money on mailings and magazines and paying lobbyists to make back to make back room deal compromises in order to claim "it coulda been worse".
See folks, the NRA wants the background checks. They WANT state preemption OF the Second Amendment so it can fundraiser in all fifty states "standing and fighting" fifty states different "laws".
So where is the NRA? They are STILL lining pockets among its top dogs, spreading dough around to politicians and now even handing cash over to media corporations for commercials.
Grassroots? LOVE THAT ADMISSION! You give them your money and they expect you to do it on yer own anyway. Here's a thought - don't send em a penny and DO go grassroots with your VOTES.
Folks are gonna have to face it - the NRA is just not what so many think it is, want it to be or even maybe what it used to be. Maybe it could be - but it's gonna take people telling the honest truth. The NRA is CORRUPTED at the highest of levels - reduced to inside the beltway liberalism and collectivism. Today it fights for government control at the state level over gun rights that actually belong to each individual.
Truth hurts. Lying about it is deadly. Time to choose.
NRA is MIA here Mike. Token ten of thousands is all we've seen from them. VS at I believe at least six million via Gates, Bloomberg, Ballmer and Hanauer.
The initiative process has now been corrupted by the filthy rich, much in the same way big money has pretty much everything else.
IF I-594 passes, I intend fully to disobey.
Alan Gottlieb and a small coalition are taking on the mega rich. And the NRA is nowhere in sight.
Win or lose, I'm done with them. Larry and Alan give more bang for the buck anyway.
For the benefit of any other NRA members out there, SOF does an endorsement early each year for the NRA Board Of Directors candidates.
We already know the NRA is badly broken. Considering the political power we've proven in recent years, it should be a relatively simple thing to replacing the broken parts on the NRA Board.
Mike, if you have the time and inclination to provide a "thumbs up" list ~4 months from now, your insights and decades of rubbing elbows with various characters in the gun rights movement would be of immense value. A "thumbs down" list would also be immensely helpful.
Let's give the gun-haters real reason to howl and tear at their hair over the NRA. We can fix this!
See, you just don't understand how it works. If we spend money to fight on issues now, then we won't have money to spend on issues that *really matter* in the future.
"Mike, if you have the time and inclination to provide a "thumbs up" list ~4 months from now, your insights and decades of rubbing elbows with various characters in the gun rights movement would be of immense value. A "thumbs down" list would also be immensely helpful."
Some time ago David Codrea put together a list of questions patterned after the survey the NRA/PVF sends to political candidates. His idea was that each of his readers who were NRA members eligible to vote in board member elections would send his survey to the board candidates.
The results were somewhat less than spectacular.
We're all expecting Mike, David, Jeff Knox and others to pull a miracle out of a hat and save our gun rights but we're not committed enough to send a survey that we didn't even have to think up to an NRA board candidate. To paraphrase Country Joe at Woodstock: "I don't know how you expect to save our gun rights if you can't sing any louder than that!"
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this ain't rocket surgery. The NRA isn't, never has been, and probably never will be a pro 2A organization. Look at where they spend their money. Read the board members self written bio's. Many of them don't even mention the 2A. Yet they get elected, and re-elected. How can this be? Because the average American gun owner doesn't care enough about this fight to get spend $35 on an NRA membership, much less send a letter to their representative or senator or vote in an NRA board election. And if American gun owners won't get involved, why should the NRA?
Mike has written often about results achieved by committed minorities. Jeff Knox has written about the dismal response numbers in NRA board member elections. Not going to repeat those numbers here. The bottom line is that if 3% of America's gun owners are really committed to this fight and bothered to qualify to vote in NRA board elections and then did so, they would easily swamp the results, and turn the NRA into the pro 2A 800 pound gorilla some people think it is. Don't hold your breath. And for those of you who want to blame the NRA for not doing something it never had any interest in doing, watch this video.
I am sitting here behind ENEMY LINES .IN THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE of CT. Being run into the ground by Collectivists/Progressives, alike in Hartford, Ct. Nice words for Communists/Marxists!!!. Led by Malloy, and his Collectivist cohort M. Lawlor. I ask where, were, the Republicans ,and the NRA ???. When the Assault weapon/magazine ban, was passed into an illegal law!!!!.They have taken over from within, without firing a shot !!! I am in the NRA. But all my donations are being diverted. To prepare, for something I won't start. Nor will I stand down !!! Any where ,Any time, Any place, bar none!!!.
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The NRA is busy spending money on mailings and magazines and paying lobbyists to make back to make back room deal compromises in order to claim "it coulda been worse".
See folks, the NRA wants the background checks. They WANT state preemption OF the Second Amendment so it can fundraiser in all fifty states "standing and fighting" fifty states different "laws".
So where is the NRA? They are STILL lining pockets among its top dogs, spreading dough around to politicians and now even handing cash over to media corporations for commercials.
Grassroots? LOVE THAT ADMISSION! You give them your money and they expect you to do it on yer own anyway. Here's a thought - don't send em a penny and DO go grassroots with your VOTES.
Folks are gonna have to face it - the NRA is just not what so many think it is, want it to be or even maybe what it used to be. Maybe it could be - but it's gonna take people telling the honest truth. The NRA is CORRUPTED at the highest of levels - reduced to inside the beltway liberalism and collectivism. Today it fights for government control at the state level over gun rights that actually belong to each individual.
Truth hurts. Lying about it is deadly.
Time to choose.
The Not Really Activists club?
III
NRA is MIA here Mike. Token ten of thousands is all we've seen from them. VS at I believe at least six million via Gates, Bloomberg, Ballmer and Hanauer.
The initiative process has now been corrupted by the filthy rich, much in the same way big money has pretty much everything else.
IF I-594 passes, I intend fully to disobey.
Alan Gottlieb and a small coalition are taking on the mega rich. And the NRA is nowhere in sight.
Win or lose, I'm done with them. Larry and Alan give more bang for the buck anyway.
For the benefit of any other NRA members out there, SOF does an endorsement early each year for the NRA Board Of Directors candidates.
We already know the NRA is badly broken. Considering the political power we've proven in recent years, it should be a relatively simple thing to replacing the broken parts on the NRA Board.
Mike, if you have the time and inclination to provide a "thumbs up" list ~4 months from now, your insights and decades of rubbing elbows with various characters in the gun rights movement would be of immense value. A "thumbs down" list would also be immensely helpful.
Let's give the gun-haters real reason to howl and tear at their hair over the NRA. We can fix this!
Regards,
#OREGON HOBO#
You probably don't want the NRA involved anyway.
They would find some way to rescue defeat from Victory's colon.
See, you just don't understand how it works. If we spend money to fight on issues now, then we won't have money to spend on issues that *really matter* in the future.
- Your NRA Betters
"Mike, if you have the time and inclination to provide a "thumbs up" list ~4 months from now, your insights and decades of rubbing elbows with various characters in the gun rights movement would be of immense value. A "thumbs down" list would also be immensely helpful."
Some time ago David Codrea put together a list of questions patterned after the survey the NRA/PVF sends to political candidates. His idea was that each of his readers who were NRA members eligible to vote in board member elections would send his survey to the board candidates.
The results were somewhat less than spectacular.
We're all expecting Mike, David, Jeff Knox and others to pull a miracle out of a hat and save our gun rights but we're not committed enough to send a survey that we didn't even have to think up to an NRA board candidate. To paraphrase Country Joe at Woodstock: "I don't know how you expect to save our gun rights if you can't sing any louder than that!"
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this ain't rocket surgery. The NRA isn't, never has been, and probably never will be a pro 2A organization. Look at where they spend their money. Read the board members self written bio's. Many of them don't even mention the 2A. Yet they get elected, and re-elected. How can this be? Because the average American gun owner doesn't care enough about this fight to get spend $35 on an NRA membership, much less send a letter to their representative or senator or vote in an NRA board election. And if American gun owners won't get involved, why should the NRA?
Mike has written often about results achieved by committed minorities. Jeff Knox has written about the dismal response numbers in NRA board member elections. Not going to repeat those numbers here. The bottom line is that if 3% of America's gun owners are really committed to this fight and bothered to qualify to vote in NRA board elections and then did so, they would easily swamp the results, and turn the NRA into the pro 2A 800 pound gorilla some people think it is. Don't hold your breath. And for those of you who want to blame the NRA for not doing something it never had any interest in doing, watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw
http://www.examiner.com/article/n-j-activist-colandro-earns-gun-rights-examiner-endorsement-for-nra-board
I am sitting here behind ENEMY LINES .IN THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE of CT. Being run into the ground by Collectivists/Progressives, alike in Hartford, Ct. Nice words for Communists/Marxists!!!. Led by Malloy, and his Collectivist cohort M. Lawlor. I ask where, were, the Republicans ,and the NRA ???. When the Assault weapon/magazine ban, was passed into an illegal law!!!!.They have taken over from within, without firing a shot !!! I am in the NRA. But all my donations are being diverted. To prepare, for something I won't start. Nor will I stand down !!! Any where ,Any time, Any place, bar none!!!.
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