An appeal to those with NRA sticker on their vehicles

[hops]

Just have a NRA life sticker in the lower corner of my back window on my car.
Seems to get positive responses - Bought some ham radio gear and the young sales clerk helps me out with the goodies. We load the trunk, and I get a thumbs up and smile when he sees the NRA sticker.

Or, I go and take my Ham license test. Use my CHL as my 2nd form of ID. The examiner, pulls out his CHL (different counties for each of us) to show me since he'd never seen my county's CHL before.

Guns, Ham radio and model railroading. I seem to have noticed this connection for some time now.......

 

[tcdrennen]

Front license plate frame: "LIFE MEMBER ... MATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION"
Rear license plate frame: "MY OTHER AUTO IS A ... .45 ACP"
Hitch cover: "West End Gun Club"
Rear Window: NRA Life Member decal, US Flag

On a 2001 Toyota Tundra

No hassles even at typically liberal local communinity college (World History prof who has stated in class that: 'The US deserved 9-11", "ALL 20th century wars have been western aggression for oil and resources", "Reagan & Bush were directly and personally responsible for murder, rape and torture in Latin America", "The 1944 Normandy invasion was unjustified; all foreign invasions are western imperialism and exploitation", and "Iraq is solely about control of oil.")

Did get an oddly aggressive attitude from the younger of two Costa Mesa PD who pulled me over for running a red light - they let me go as the construction at the intersection had left me across two lanes so I felt obliged to pull through rather than block traffic. The passenger side young cop, though, then demanded to know if I had any guns in the car

I said "No" (truthfully at that moment), he then kinda grimly snapped, "Mind if we look?" I was taken aback, but wasn't in a hurry, so said, "Sure, if you want to"; his sergeant then said, "No, we're out of here". Goodbye, take care, exeunt omnes.

Have to assume Young Cop was perturbed by my stickers and decals; Old Cop wasn't. Disturbing mostly for future trends - when Young Cop is Sergeant, will he be smarter/cooler?

 

[bogie]

Oh, and another thing...

From some of you folks, I'm getting a vibe full of some severe attitude...

Guys, it's a bad thing when we reinforce stereotypes, or otherwise scare folks who are essentially sitting on the fence...

I mean, if someone sees Joe Gunowner, who came out of the gun safe a while back, and thinks that he's a fine upstanding person, and wouldn't mind having 'em over for dinner, they're less likely to be persuaded to vote to take away our rights.

But if someone sees Joe Gunowner, and perceives, for whatever reason, that he's not a fine upstanding person, and they wouldn't want to live on the same side of town as him, much less having him even drive down their street, well... As soon as a firearms issue shows up on the ballot, they vote solid anti.

I get the impression that some of you have the idea that the best way to deal with folks who you perceive as "antis" is to say things like "Well, if someone were to pull a gun out now and point it at you, what would you do?" Yeah, well, that'll get a rise out of 'em, but it also gets 'em to vote for "safety." Because they think that YOU are the person most likely to point a gun at 'em.

Do not scare the sheep.

 

[bogie]

when Young Cop is Sergeant, will he be smarter/cooler?

Not likely - they're raising a crop of young cops who aren't shooters - they're bureaucrats. That's more dangerous.

 

[Waitone]

It is one thing to be labelled an <insert prejudicial descriptor of your choice> because you act that way.

Totally different issue when LE forces a <prejudicial descriptor> on you to suit political gamesmanship.

I ask the esteemed forum members to think back to the Waschington DC "sniper" fiasco. The good Chief Moose's first published profile of the "sniper" was that of a fat, middle aged white guy(s) driving a white truck with an NRA sticker on the back.

A deliberate political smear. I still don't know if the good Chief Moose was aware of the real profile while he was feeding the politically correct profile. I still don't know how many people were murdered between the time when chief Moose knew what the real suspects description was and when he went public. For some reason LE is not interested in pursuing that particular crime.

 

[RocketMan]

"an OFF (for those who live in Oregon, you SHOULD now what that stands for)"

Oh, man, now I feel bad. What does it stand for? "Oregon Firearms Foundation" or something like that?

 

[Rebeldon]

What I _really_ hate is seeing NRA stickers right next to confederate flags... It just reinforces the stereotype...

And what stereotype is that, sir? It tells me that he is more intellegent than a Yankee.

 

[MeekandMild]

Most, meaning 95%+, people in the country, and probably closer to 99.9% in urban areas, see the confederate flag as a symbol of racism and bigotry.

And 95% of the Germans in 1935 blamed the Jews for their problems but that didn't make them right did it?

Forgetting that over one in five Southern people, black and white, man, woman and child, died as the result of the Civil war is just as much historical revisionism as the hatemongering as denying the Holocaust. In point of fact the Civil War was a true American Holocaust.

Allowing pinheads like the Klan to appropriate that Flag as their own is a despicable act. Allowing racists like the NAACP to agree with them is almost as despicable. I am ashamed that members of this forum would further such stereotypes in any way shape or form.

 

[manwithoutahome]

RocketMan

It's Oregon Firearms Federation. Their web page is http://www.oregonfirearms.org/

And you're closer to them, you should know better

And what's wrong with the Confederate Flag? Just because the klan uses it? Just because skin headed bigots that have never been in the south uses it?

Sir, if this was the 1800's, I would call you out. It is my Heritage and it is my history. My fathers family is Southern, My mothers is Native American. I feel the same with the rituals of my Native American Heritage as I do with my Southern Heritage.

Should I be more proud that I get a card with my Tribe name and "number" on it then I should be of my Southern Heritage?

I, sir, would beg to differ on your insights on the matter.

I proudly fly the Confederate Flag, as I proudly hold my Native American Heritage.

Sir, if you have a problem with my pride, then I bid you to learn more about me and my heritage instead of making such stereotypical statements.

Wayne

 

[Sunspot]

I do not have any gun related signs or stickers on my house or car for the reasons of theft or hassels from LE's who have a different viewpoint as I do. That being said, I do fly the "Stars and Bars" at my home along with my US flag.
The one sticker I do have on my car states "Get US out of the UN"

 

[MuzzleBlast]

Allowing pinheads like the Klan to appropriate that Flag as their own is a despicable act.

And, by the way, the Klan also flies the Stars and Stripes, do they not?
I'll fly my rebel flag with pride, and if some people don't like it, I'll buy them a compass so they can find their way NORTH.

 

[bogie]

Guys, I'm not talking about your motivations. I'm talking about folks' PERCEPTIONS.

The plain and simple truth is that "your flag" is seen by a very large portion of the population as a symbol of racism. That's the bottom line.

 

[manwithoutahome]

Bogie,

If we were to be PC because of what a "large population" sees as this or that, then we wouldn't be gun owners. A large population of people see us as "thugs" "punks" "criminals" etc.. for owning guns and wanting to own semi-auto rifles/pistols that look "evil". Should be not show our hobby for fear of being perceived as something that we are not?

It didn't get much news time but three men carried the Confederate Flag throughout the south. The man who carried the flag was Black who was also proud of his Southern Heritage. Of course it didn't get much news time due to it's not PC for the flag because bigots think that it's a symbol of racism.

Wayne

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

Waitone:

Off topic, however...

A deliberate political smear. I still don't know if the good Chief Moose was aware of the real profile while he was feeding the politically correct profile...

Yes he was.

I recall seeing a news conference at the end of the first week where a woman, a reporter from one of the local D.C. t.v. stations, asked him (Moose) about eyewitness reports of a blue Chevrolet Caprice driven by a Black male as the shooter's vehicle. Moose reiterated his belief that a White panel truck being driven by 1 or 2 white males was the suspect vehicle.

The galling aspect of this is that this same blue Chevy Caprice was later stopped at least a half dozen times at roadblocks around the scenes of the shootings, and is even seen on a videotape entering and leaving a gas station where a blackmail payment had been arranged with Malvo and Muhammed to be picked up. Malvo and Muhammed were warned off when they saw the local police swarming around a white panel truck.

Moose deserves to be condemned at every opportunity for the incompetent way in which he directed the investigation.

But at least Moose is Black. That was a critically important factor in his selection as Chief by the far-left socialist Montgomery County (MD) Council and Chief Exec. Douglas (tried to outlaw smoking inside private homes) Duncan.

A day doesn't go by that I am not thankfull that I was able to move from the far-left socialist swamp that Maryland has become and back to the USA (VA).

 

[madmike]

Let's see...one vehicle is "Stealth"--no decorations of any kind.

The other has:

NRA sticker
"Get US out of the UN"
"NRA life member JFK was shot by ACLU member L.H. Oswald"
a Darwin fish (typical Christian evolved with feet and "DARWIN" inside)
An Informed Jury sticker I can't recall the details of
And "Remember when this + wasn't a warning?" with a crucifix.

No, I'm neither anti-religious nor anti-Christian. I just don't like the moralistic scumbags who want to REQUIRE me to abide by their particular perversion of the Bible.

But I figure it confuses enough people to make them think, rather than mindlessly dismissing me. ("Oh, screw that left wing...er...right wing...er...what the #@$%$#?"

 

[Bubbles]

A day doesn't go by that I am not thankfull that I was able to move from the far-left socialist swamp that Maryland has become and back to the USA (VA).

Sorry, but Arlingraad ain't exactly VIRGINIA.

I remember well how people around here felt until the thugs with rifles were caught. I bought a lot of fuel in Winchester (while going to and from WV) during that time...

 

[The_Shootist]

Bumber stickers?

Gee, and I was thinking of putting my "Nuke'em all George" bumper sticker
next to my NRA bumpersticker.

Or is that just too hardline?