Reply #13: I see your point... [View All]

[benEzra]

A lot of gun owners see the NRA as the only thing preserving their right to keep the guns they own, though, and to a large degree they're right. Honestly, were it not for the NRA, I suspect that we nonhunters would have lost our right to own the civilian guns of our choice a long time ago.

I am currently an NRA annual member myself. I'd love to see a pro-gun alternative to the NRA that was less partisan, but currently I don't believe there is one. Don't like their rhetoric or some of LaPierre's favoritism toward repubs on non-gun-related issues, but unfortunately they're the only game in town on the gun issue at the moment.

At the state and local level, they are more evenhanded, though. Our Dem governor and most of our (D) state government was NRA endorsed in 2004, FWIW.