Gun owners in this group: Does the NRA speak for you?
I am asking this question because I heard a commentator say tonight that the NRA is the most powerful lobby in Washington and had serious power to influence the way our representatives vote.
I don't own a gun, but I am fine with the 2nd amendment. More than half my family members do and I love it when they bring home a big buck or wild turkey to share. I have eaten quail, rabbit and squirrel meat...All of which I feel better about than the stuff in the Styrofoam offered at the local grocery. Several women I know are the victims of stalkers and a few of them have acquired a gun for protection. I don't blame them. I probably would too seeing what they have experienced.
That said, I have seen a lot of crazy gun talk going on in here the past few months. It seems like there is some idea that if you don't agree with Wayne LaPierre, Ted Nugent and the NRA that Obama is "commin' for your guns!" that you don't agree with the 2nd amendment....I have suspicions about the NRA and the fear they are pushing as it builds up their bottom line. It is in their financial interest to convince as many people as they can to buy as many guns and as much ammo as they possibly can because of the above said fear...and if you disagree with them, then you couldn't possibly be a supporter of the constitutional right to own a firearm...
I call it BS.
So I was just wondering....As a gun owner and member of this forum, does the NRA speak for you?
*edited to add why I posted this in the first sentence*
*edit to the edit, to add Wayne LaPierre, who is the NRA face I am really talking about. I think most of us can agree that Ted is bat#hit crazy! LOL*
Neon Washable Paint
I am a gun owner but I have no idea what they're trying to say 'for me'. I'm so annoyed with all their phone calls asking for money that I've kind of tuned them out.
That being said, they're probably just an equal balance to the crazies on the other end of the spectrum trying to punish the legal gun owners for the crimes of the few bad ones.
As a moderate Independent, I'm afraid there isn't a single lobbyist in Washington that can completely speak for me, in any issue.
Any group that considers Ted Nugent a good spokes person will never speak for me.
I'm a gun owner and a supporter of the 2nd amendment, but I don't necessarily consider what the NRA says as 'my words'.
On the other hand, I do think that without the NRA fighting tooth and nail for gun rights and to uphold the COTUS that it's likely that far less people would still be allowed to own guns in the US. Whether or not I agree with them or all of their talk, I appreciate the voice they maintain in Congress.
I wanted to thank all of your ladies so far who have shared your POV. It helps cut through all the rhetoric.
Neon Washable Paint
I don't think recommending that our schools are armed to protect children from the mentally ill that are allowed to roam this country, is crazy. Ted Nugent is not a representative of the NRA. Are there "gun nuts" out there, sure. Ted doesn't do the anti-gun control lobby any good when he publicizes shooting pigs from a helicopter. The NRA has done more gun safety education than any organization in America. So, like any issue, you have to see who is actually representing whom and what they stand for. Ted Nugent stands for himself. I appreciate his enthusiasm, but, not necessarily his methods. Read on the NRA website what we stand for and then you will understand there is a difference.
I don't understand why it is inconceivable to some people that the govt wouldn't want to control our access to guns, when we have them trying to tell us what to feed our kids and how many ounces of soda we can buy. The "govt knows best" attitude of the O administration is very obvious if you sit back and examine it. Where will they stop at controlling our lives?
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on Mar. 13, 2013 at 7:44 PM