What are your feelings about the AARP ?

[dzimmerm]

I have turned 50 a while ago. I am getting propaganda from the AARP. Unfortionately the AARP seems to be an organization that provides political support for anti Second Ammendment groups.

I have not joined the AARP due to their support for those I oppose.
(The friend of my enemy is my enemy.)

Does anyone else have a take on this?

Are their any groups that offer benefits like the AARP that are Pro Gun?

I am an NRA member but I have not explored their benefits as of yet.

dzimmerm

 

[SIOP]

Flaming liberal communist anti-gun left-wing handwringing big-government socialist pigs.

I place them in the same category as the ACLU, Communist Party, Democrats, and Republicans.

Their answer to everything is more legislation and more tax money. They are real big on redistribution of wealth from everyone else to their membership. Oddly enough though, the older generation in this country is who controls the majority of the wealth.

 

[jfh]

they started out simply as a mouthpiece

for the insurance industry. I think they still are. Here's a link to one version of their history (brought up from google, unexamined): http://www.60plus.org/about-aarp.asp

Can you think of any group more risk-adverse than the insurance industry?

 

[AirForceShooter]

2 words:
They SUCK!!!
I'm 61 and was a menber very briefly.
Look at their position on guns and Social Security.

AFS

 

[Car Knocker]

A recent discussion about AARP:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=267519

 

[Art Eatman]

The memebership is as divided as the rest of the population of the U.S. The administrative leadership is statist and favors gun control.

Odds are, their stance on gun control issues is far less effective than on those issues which are of importance to "Old Farts" as a function of age. I note they seem to be less strident than in the past. Guys like me have given them cause to believe their views on gun control are not representative of us "elderly" guys.

 

[awkx]

AARPers For The Second Amendment

I imagine that a good number of AARP members are pro-2A despite the organization's stance. Perhaps we should a new group, AARPers For The Second Amendment, to encourage AARP members to voice their concern about AARP's anti-2A position. Fact is, many pro-2A retirees will join AARP regardless of its anti-2A stance.

 

[dzimmerm]

Car Knocker,

Thanks for the other thread. I pulled the two organizations out that offer some senior benefits and I will take a look at them.

dzimmerm

 

[bumm]

I joined the AARP some years ago when someone told me that they sold cheap health insurance. Once I got in, I found out that all of their insurance was just supplemental stuff to medicare. Later, I found out that they are pro-gun control and very liberal, and I won't have anything to do with 'em anymore.
Besides, I don't want to be something as delicate and helpless as a "senior." I'm an OLD MAN.
Marty

 

[Jacka L Ope]

What are your feelings about the AARP ?

I have no use for them.

 

[eliphalet]

I would send my aplication to join they kept mailing me with a message about their stance on gun control and they finally stopped sending me more appts. Took em 2 or 3 years but they finally got the message.
I was nice, but I guess they would rather support gun control than have me as a member.

 

[ArmedBear]

The AARP serves one primary purpose:

Use its power to vote as much of my money into the pockets of its members as it can get away with. With Baby Boomers joining, Generation X, my generation, is screwed. Some of us have hit 40. We finally have some income for them to take, and they will.

Its secondary purpose is to support Democratic Party planks, like gun bans, to get allies in its primary purpose.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I don't ever do business with anti-Second Amendment bigots.