If you're not a member of the NRA, it's TIME to join. $10.00/year

[Solomonson]

Enough of the anger, the vitriol, the whining and especially the apathy. If you're not a member of the NRA, NOW is the time to join. Associate memberships (no monthly magazine) are $10.00/year!

https://joinnra.nra.org/join/Associate.aspx

 

[DoubleMag]

HERE HERE

free bump

 

[AlexanderA]

You really think that gun-owning liberals would be falling all over themselves to join the NRA when Wayne LaPierre is on a crusade against liberalism? (Read his last two editorials in the American Rifleman. They have almost nothing to do with guns. They're just rants against "socialism.") This plays well to the "base," but does nothing for outreach.

 

[aisiguy]

Liberalism (now "Progressivism") is the source of the anti-gun venom and anti-gun crusade. To diminish gun control requires diminishing the source.

Note that I said "diminishing". It is not possible to end the anti-gun crusade - it is externally-manifesting mental and spiritual illnesses, and those are far beyond the ability of the NRA's civil rights advocacy to cure.

 

[Ks5shooter]

Life member here and yearly donator

 

[danez71]

Post 3 and 4

ARE YOU PURPOSELY TRYING TO GET THIS THREAD SHUT DOWN?!?!!!

This isn't about politics. Its PSA for cheap NRA membership.

 

[aisiguy]

Not sure if you are shouting at me, Danez, or the earlier poster. But as a thought: 5 out of 7 of the current top threads (other than this one) in the forum bear on/reflect the anti-gun campaign going on these days. Unfortunately, if one is a member of the shooting community, there is little opportunity to just focus on what we like, and avoid what is happening around us.

 

[SwampWolf]

Post 3 and 4

ARE YOU PURPOSELY TRYING TO GET THIS THREAD SHUT DOWN?!?!!!

This isn't about politics. Its PSA for cheap NRA membership.

I think you're referencing post #3, at least mostly.

Unfortunately, whenever encouraging people to join the National Rifle Association is the issue, there will always be NRA malcontents who simply cannot resist any opportunity to shove their pet peeves and petty grievances down our throats; no matter the consequences, intended or otherwise.
Solomonson merely suggested that joining the NRA now will likely never be cheaper and AlexanderA seizes the opportunity to trash Wayne LaPierre on the basis that he is merely "playing to the base" but doing nothing for "outreach" when he made the valid point that socialism and gun control (i.e., people control) have always been familiar bed-fellows. I would suggest that having the opportunity to be an NRA member for ten bucks a year does a lot for "outreach" if that's really what AlexanderA is concerned about.

 

[AlexanderA]

AlexanderA seizes the opportunity to trash Wayne LaPierre on the basis that he is merely "playing to the base" but doing nothing for "outreach" when he made the valid point that socialism and gun control (i.e., people control) have always been familiar bed-fellows. I would suggest that having the opportunity to be an NRA member for ten bucks a year does a lot for "outreach" if that's really what AlexanderA is concerned about.

To begin with, I'm a life member of the NRA and have been for many, many years (since the 1970's).

Regardless of how inexpensive membership is, it's still not going to attract as many people as it could, if the organization is associated in their minds with the Far Right. The current leadership has charted that course of alliance, and I believe it's a huge mistake.

Liberalism (now "Progressivism") is the source of the anti-gun venom and anti-gun crusade. To diminish gun control requires diminishing the source.

I disagree vehemently. Liberalism, per se, is not against guns. What has happened is that antigun zealots have hijacked the Democratic Party. That has caused a chicken-or-egg situation in which pro-gun people have migrated out of the Democratic Party, leaving the antigun zealots in an even stronger position. But liberalism, as a philosophy, is not responsible for this.

I've been a proud gun owner, a proud RKBA advocate, and a proud progressive practically my entire life. And I take great offense at the things Wayne LaPierre has been saying.

(Now the moderators can close this thread down.)

 

[dekibg]

no, thank you.
even they send me a $10 monthly check.
because of Wayne and Ted.

 

[danez71]

I've been a proud gun owner, a proud RKBA advocate, and a proud progressive practically my entire life.

Well, congratulations.

And I take great offense at the things Wayne LaPierre has been saying.

Show a little respect and restraint by starting a thread about that instead of repeatedly inserting in threads of different topics.

(Now the moderators can close this thread down.)

Your progressivism is quite touching in an elitist way.

 

[bullseye308]

Rejoined last month for 3 years.

 

[Armored farmer]

Enough of the anger, the vitriol, the whining and especially the apathy. If you're not a member of the NRA, NOW is the time to join. Associate memberships (no monthly magazine) are $10.00/year!

https://joinnra.nra.org/join/Associate.aspx

I agree.
$10.00/yr IS A PITTANCE.
If you own a firearm, and dont belong to the NRA....??
...in 2018??
....you've got your head in the sand.

 

[Scooter22]

Thanks for the link. While some piss on the NRA I paid for 4 new members tonight. While on the phone I asked the rep hows the memberships going. He said they have 1.2 million new members!!! I asked him twice. Lets wake the sleeping giant thats gun owners. I'm thinking of some others I want to pay for tomorrow. How about you instead of fighting with each other?

 

[DoubleMag]

I agree.
$10.00/yr IS A PITTANCE.
If you own a firearm, and dont belong to the NRA....??
...in 2018??
....you've got your head in the sand.

....or elsewhere

 

[JT-AR-MG42]

Just imagine if 50% of the folks who owned a gun were members of the NRA.
Or how about even 50% of people who owned more than one gun?
How could the media downplay those numbers?

I read these gripes and petty issues, whether they be about Wayne or Ted or too much junk mail and try not to laugh.

So let me get this straight.
A segment of this Country has made it their unbending, avowed, and absolute purpose to (eventually, by steps) deprive you of your heritage and right to own firearms.
Yet because of some perceived slight or disagreement, you refuse to join the NRA.
Yeah, the same NRA that is the ONLY voice you have at the National (and many times State as well) level that is stating your side of the gun issue.
Maybe one of the NRA haters can fill me in on the back up plan for retaining my firearms rights?

JT

 

[somethingbenign]

If you guys want to keep dividing within the firearm community, by all means you seem well versed. I get called enough foul things by control activits to come to a gun site and be called more of the same. Want me to join? A please and thank you would have sufficed.

 

[John_R]

This is kinda like "I support the troops but not the mission" for some, and "I support the mission but not the troops" for others.

I support both.

And I donate to the NRA-ILA, Florida Carry, and the Firearms Policy Coalition.

 

[sota]

somthingbenign et.al.:
Your joining to be counted would be greatly appreciated, even if you choose not to renew in a year or two.

 

[somethingbenign]

somthingbenign et.al.:
Your joining to be counted would be greatly appreciated, even if you choose not to renew in a year or two.

Thank you. I'll take a look as soon as I get home. We are all on the same side here.

 

[Armored farmer]

....or elsewhere

...indeed.

 

[BSA1]

Well time for a topic derailment.

To begin with, I'm a life member of the NRA and have been for many, many years (since the 1970's).

I upgraded by membership to ENDOWMENT in 2016 plus have made contributions to the NRA still then. I am buying all of my kids NRA Memberships this year.

What have you done?

I've been a proud gun owner, a proud RKBA advocate, and a proud progressive practically my entire life.

What does a "proud progressive" believe about gun restrictions?

And I take great offense at the things Wayne LaPierre has been saying.

I wish you would take greater offense at the anti-gun laws that are actually being proposed and passed.

(Now the moderators can close this thread down.)

So now you want to close discussion from everyone that disagrees with you.

 

[AlexanderA]

So now you want to close discussion from everyone that disagrees with you.

No, I was just recognizing the fact that moderators on the High Road are quick to close down threads that stray into politics.

For the record, I agree that every gun owner that cares about keeping his guns should join the NRA. However, if the NRA leadership keeps gratuitously insulting liberal gun owners, that makes it exceedingly difficult for them to get on board with the organization.

Just because I am for Single Payer health care and publicly-funded college education, for example, shouldn't mean that I am treated as the enemy by the likes of Wayne LaPierre. (And that's precisely what he's saying -- that the "socialists" are trying to take your guns. Never mind the fact that he's made the NRA into an arm of the Republican party.)

Sorry, but this is an extremely sensitive issue for me. It's all the worse because I'm trying to straddle the two "tribes" that have developed in this country due to polarization.

 

[bassjam]

You really think that gun-owning liberals would be falling all over themselves to join the NRA when Wayne LaPierre is on a crusade against liberalism? (Read his last two editorials in the American Rifleman. They have almost nothing to do with guns. They're just rants against "socialism.") This plays well to the "base," but does nothing for outreach.

This is a real problem that the NRA has. There are plenty of Democrat/liberal gun owners and 2nd Amendment supporters out there, but the NRA has no interest in reaching out to them because they'd rather bash the left as a whole.

I'm still an NRA member for now, but also joined GOA and the 2nd Amendment Foundation as they seem to leave the partisan politics out of their discussions. If the NRA doesn't start changing, they'll eventually lose my support, and I say this as a Conservative.

Edit: I considered joining my wife to the NRA because she actually just asked about it last week, but even for $10 I think I'll pass and recommend she join either the GOA or SAF.

 

[BSA1]

Still a topic derailment.

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For the record, I agree that every gun owner that cares about keeping his guns should join the NRA. However, if the NRA leadership keeps gratuitously insulting liberal gun owners, that makes it exceedingly difficult for them to get on board with the organization.

I don't want to get into politics but I find your opinion interesting because the NRA is a single issue organization.

Virginia is starting to make a hard turn towards passing restrictive gun laws. What type of gun control does "a proud progressive" support?