GOA and JPFO are NEVER involved in serious law or policy making, so they have no NEED to come to agreements with anyone. They can adopt the wildest, hardest, most uncompromising positions because IT NEVER MATTERS WHAT THEY SAY OR DO. Except in their fundraising.
One the other hand, what NRA says and does ALWAYS matters. They don't have the luxury of being irrelevant.
You folks need to understand this -- it's CRUCIAL to understanding the game that is unfolding before your eyes. What GOA and JPFO is about FUNDRAISING!!! They live off getting people angry toward NRA. Most gun-owners don't buy it (as evidenced by their relative membership numbers) but they don't need them. All they need are the few they do convince - that brings in enough $$ to pay their bills and keep them from having real jobs.
In his first year as NRA-ILA director (1978) the late Neal Knox put an article in the American Rifleman that laid it on the line. He described how these small groups misrepresent facts and make themselves seem more important than they are. This is an excerpt from the SECOND PARAGRAPH (American Rifleman, Nov. 1978, Page 80):
"...(O)ther organizations - for reasons of their own - have continued to attempt to build themselves up by tearing down NRA. These efforts have gone beyond mere bickering, and have become unjustified, unsubstantiated and untrue attacks. They have damaged the NRA and the defense of gun ownership in ways that the vowed enemies of gun ownership could not, to the delight of our foes..."
In the rest of the article, Neal names names and groups and gives specifics about the same kinds of attacks you are seeing today. Friends, there is nothing new under the sun, except perhaps an increased level of awareness by gun-owners that this kind of BS goes on in the gun-rights movement. I'm sick and tired of it, aren't you?
Don't buy GOA's and JPFO's B.S.
Mike
