Personally I'd like to rejoin the NRA

[noahmijo]

After seeing the group stump far too often for the GOP though I've abandoned them. Like a fellow was saying on another thread, I'm a gun owner, (I probably own more guns than the Michigan Militia at that) but I am totally fine with checking backgrounds at gun shows, or anywhere for that matter. I have nothing to hide, I'm no criminal, and I would never pull a gun on anyone unless they pulled a deadly weapon on me first and that's only if I have no other means of escape but to defend myself.

If the NRA would ever go back to its roots of teaching gun safety and responsibility and simply advocate those issues, and what the state laws are concerning gun ownership and carrying permits I'd happily rejoin.

But lately I flip through issues of their magazine "American Rifleman" (my father is still a member) and the new president and his team of editors spend all their time going after Kerry and hashing out ridiculous conspiracy theories out one after another.

Before I rejoin I want to see new leadership, one that focuses on firearms themselves, safety, laws, tips for better sighting, latest (legal) gagdets, ect and that's it. NO POLITICS.

Maybe I'll get my wish when Micheal Moore becomes president of the NRA.

[DaveSZ]

1. Yeah I'm pro-gun

The NRA is simply an extension of the GOP though.

[CEDEVLvg]

2. Just As...

...the NEA is an extension of the Democratic National Committee, which certainly doesn't help them in those coveted southern states!

[CEDEVLvg]

3. If The Democrats...

...realigned and ditched their leftist agenda, you'd get your wish. What we'd have is essentially the reconstitution of the Truman-era Democratic party of the 1940s and 1950s - certainly not a bad thing.

Evan Bayh, please call your office...

[DaveSZ]

4. Leftist agenda?

Clinton was way more neoliberal than Truman.

I'd rather have Truman back too.

[wicket]

6. leftist agenda???

:hurts:

[seabeyond]

5. my husband left nra gosh somewhere in the 90's

cause of what they were doing. i like what you say about what it use to be about, that is what ed said

[comradebillyboy]

7. i just recieved a letter from nra

asking me to re-join. alas, for all the good training and services they provide, they are a de-facto wing of the republican party.