Senders - NRA is losing ground everywhere. And I love it That George Herbert Walker Bush resigned his membership in 1995. What did he know that you Reps don't?
Senders - NRA is losing ground everywhere. And I love it That George Herbert Walker Bush resigned his membership in 1995. What did he know that you Reps don't?
Last I heard the NRA's membership was skyrocketing?
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Give it up Henry. You're not that foolish. Stop backing these fools. Nobody is against the second ammendment. But everyone is against people who are in favor of killing small children with assault weapons.
The National Rifle Association may be taking a beating in the public opinion polls since they began their post-Newtown offensive, but to hear the organization tell it, the tragedy has swelled their ranks, from 4.25 million to 4.5 million since the tragic mass shooting. While mainstream news organizations dutifully report the NRA‘s unverified figures, Mother Jones‘ Josh Harkinson lays out a compelling case that the organization is, shockingly, overcompensating to the tune of about a million members by, among other things, continuing to count dead members.
Apparently many 'life members' are long dead. When you buy your life membership, there is no end to your being a member...even long after you are dead and buried. Consider this piece:
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Writing in 2000, when the NRA claimed to have 3.6 million members, journalist Osha Gray Davidson speculated on some of the group’s strategies for fluffing itself up: Two years ago, David Gross, then an NRA board member, confided to me that a substantial number of the group’s 1 million Life Members are, well, dead. “There just isn’t that much incentive to go find out when someone passes away,” Gross explained. “Not when the cost of maintaining (a dead member) is minimal and when they add to your membership list.” Who else is included in that figure of 3.6 million? I may be—although I haven’t been a member for years. Not long ago, I received an NRA form letter stating that in recognition of my previous commitment to the Second Amendment, the gun group had granted me an honorary membership. The mailing even included an NRA membership card embossed with my name.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Give it up Henry. You're not that foolish. Stop backing these fools. Nobody is against the second ammendment. But everyone is against people who are in favor of killing small children with assault weapons.
I'm not a member of the NRA, I don't need a lobby to protect my rights, that is what I have guns for
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
I somewhat agree... The mentally ill, who in the past were institutionalized, are now thrown into the street to fend for themselves. Many of the homeless would have been in institutions in past times.
Once a mentally ill person decides to kill, the availability of guns is the next issue. Same day gun sales, no background check, and private sales or gun show sales all help the mentally ill (or a terrorist) to obtain the means of a mass shooting.
who gets to decide the 'line of mental illness'...????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
This guy sounds like some of the Anti-Govt Crazies on this board... If your political opponents are always winning... Just go shoot em!
Nevada Lawmaker Wanted to "Do In" Speaker Jon Ralston has more details about how Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks (D) came to be arrested over the weekend on charges of threatening Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick (D).
Brooks apparently told another lawmaker that was looking to "do in" the speaker and was driving around with a loaded gun in his car. Police later found a .357 Smith and Wesson with 41 live rounds of ammo in his car.
Relatives also told police Brooks said he "was not afraid to die and willing to have a shootout with police."
I guess that is why so many of our own board GunHuggers want to limit the police firepower... to sort of level the playing field for their own police shoot out!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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