Let's all join the NRA.

[asdjrocky]

Why not? We don't like what they're doing and I don't like all the hate and fear they are spewing about the Obama administration. So the way I see it, they have what, a couple million members? So if we could just get, say, 3 million liberals who favor sane gun control laws we could completely change their agenda. It's just an idea, but hey, I'll try it if you guys will.

Then after I join the NRA I'm going to sign up for one of those stupid tea parties. See, the way I see it I'll just show up with a big Obama sign with 66% painted under his picture. Wouldn't that drive them nuts? And instead of throwing tea in the water I might just sit and have a tuna sandwich with Grey Pupon, and a piece of pie. Pecan anyone? If just a few of us showed up at each "protest" we would make a huge impact.

Someone has got to send MSM the message that Obama won, we don't want to revolt and at any given time 66% to 80% of the people these United States support and back our President and his policies.

So what do ya say, anyone up for some gun play and tea bagging? Er, I'm not sure that came out right.

[ddeclue]

1. My 45 dollars would be better spent elsewhere...

Just because you join them doesn't mean they are changing their agenda.

I'm not interested in handing them a $135 MILLION dollar war chest.

Doug D.

[asdjrocky]

2. Well, I was kind of joking, but I think you're missing the point.

If the liberals out numbered the nuts in the NRA, and we had a 135 million war chest, then we could vote to use the money for Cheetos, or maybe to give everyone a nice pedicure.

[ddeclue]

5. You're making the assumption that the NRA is some kind of democracy that's gonna listen...

It already has an agenda and the members conform to THAT, not the other way around.

:P

[NoSheep]

10. Nice try. I'm afraid it's all still lost on the brain dead.

[roody]

20. The point is a great idea.

[hendo]

17. $35 actually

you can save that extra $10 to buy something special for yourself.

[Pullo]

43. FREE 1 year NRA membership

http://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/

Give it a go if you'd like, whatever your motivations might be. Just be aware you'll need to keep your membership active 5 years before receiving voting privileges.

[imdjh]

51. I joined just now, for the sticker if nothing else (the free one of course) n/t

[FLAprogressive]

3. "sane gun control laws"? like what? what will they do? help you sleep at night?

[asdjrocky]

7. For starters, we could stop making it so easy for crazy people to get guns.

Just a thought.

[FLAprogressive]

8. OK...better funding for mental health programs.

nip the problem at the source

[asdjrocky]

18. Another great idea.

Help sick people Who'da thunk it?

[NoSheep]

12. These responses are truly hard to believe aren't they?

I think your idea is brilliant. There must be a gazillion examples of entrenched insanity we could undermind by making ourselves the majority...let's see...I'm trying to think of one....OH! Hey! Could it be the "Voting Public"?

Nah...why would I want to give my energy to that!?! I'm going to sit here and watch American Idol instead. THAT much I can control. :crazy:

[asdjrocky]

15. Yeah, I don't really understand DU much any more.

Where's the whimsy? The fun? The new and radical ideas? I honestly think we've been mad for so long we've lost our sense of humor. The bushies could do that to a person.

But keep in mind it was Abraham Lincoln who said, "If I make a friend of any enemy, have I not destroyed my enemy?"

I'm for making friends.

[NoSheep]

26. Your tone reflects that. And it really is the best way....we must be creative, no?

[asdjrocky]

31. No... er I mean yes. We must be creative.

I'm starting to think people just don't get people like us.

[NoSheep]

32. That has been my experience.

:(

[lonestarnot]

4. Fuck that! Why would I won't to give the ignoranuses money?

I could feed 8 people something for dinner for that dues. Just show up for free with your tea kettle or crock pot, pitchfork. :evilgrin:

[Budgies Revenge]

6. A friend of mine

who is, yes I'm sad to say a bit of a freeper, challenged me to join the NRA the other day. To which I replied, "Sure, as long as you join the ACLU and prove that you value the other amendments as much as the second". I still haven't heard anything back.

[asdjrocky]

9. That was a good response.

And welcome to DU!

[Budgies Revenge]

11. Thanks for the welcome!

I've actually been lurking about the boards for a few years, I just don't post very often...internet shyness syndrome:hi:

[jefflrrp]

40. I proudly . . .

am a card carrying member of both of these fine organizations. While the ACLU fights for most of my other rights, the NRA fights for the 2nd. There are a few positions I'd like both of these organizations to change on, but I'll take them for what they are. They are effective.

[LostInAnomie]

13. Why would I want to givethem money so they can make it easier for murderers to get guns?

[NoSheep]

16. What if WE were THEY?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

27. Convicted murderers are federally barred from possessing firearms.

The NRA has always supported those laws.

David

[MichaelHarris]

14. I like to shoot

I don't hunt cuz I don't have the heart to kill stuff. The one thing in my life I would never do? Join the NRA. Nothing but hate and lies.

[Skittles]

29. ditto

:thumbsup:

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

34. I like to shoot assault weapons.

:toast: Not while drinking of course.

David

[yay]

46. +1

I can agree with that. I do support some of the other, smaller pro second amendment rights groups.

[imdjh]

52. Yeah, but it's fun to have the NRA sticker next to your demleftyliberal sitcker

It's like a rainbow flag with a confederate inset. I haven't actually seen one of those, but it would be amusing.

[aikoaiko]

19. I joined the NRA this year for two main reasons.

1. No organization has a better (aleit imperfect at times) track record of defending law abiding folks 2nd Amendment rights.

2. I want to join the small cadre of NRA members who want them to play fairer (even if anti-gun groups distort the truth). I abhor the NRA's exaggerations of the kernels of truth. ets: Especially when it came to candidate Obama's positions.


So there you go...you thought you were being ironic.

[asdjrocky]

21. I really think what you did was wonderful.

Tell me, do you get to vote on stuff? Does anyone ever ask your opinion? I'd really like to know.

[aikoaiko]

23. Its take five years of consequetive membership to vote on board of directors.

And its the directors that really dictate the positions and strategies of the NRA.

I'm in it for the long haul. If I ever get enough cash together I'll get a life membership.


Yes, they seek members opinions, but I think I am in the minority.

[rwheeler31]

22. Why, do arms dealers need more money?

They have plenty.

[corruptmewithpower]

24. I was an NRA member many years ago.

I'm still very much in favor of the second amendment and civilian gun ownership, but I found the NRA's regard for the Constitution was limited to the second amendment period.

They were, in contrast to their Constitutional reverence on the gun issue, very enthusiastic drug war cheerleaders.

I would not stay aligned with an organization that aids and abets a war on the American people.

Screw you NRA!

[msongs]

25. is charlton Heston still propped in the president's chair? nt

[Skittles]

28. I would not want my name in any way associated with those paranoid assholes

[liberalhistorian]

30. That splattering sound is all of the heads asplodin' in

the Dungeon, aka the Gun Forum here, LOL!

[TheKentuckian]

33. Oh you believe the NRA is in any subtantive way responsive to it's members

They listen to their war chest stuffers and unless you intend to be a sizable piece of that pie for a number of years to get the influence to alter the course then you're just pissing away money.

I'd also rethink Obama's popularity being any form of a mandate on gun control measures. Honestly, I think if gun control is a crucial issue with you then you should just keep your powder dry for a couple or three generations and then reassess the vibe at that time.

[jody]

35. Over 80+ million gun-owners and about 4+ million NRA mbrs. NRA doesn't speak for gun-owners but NRA

does have a common interest with gun-owners; protecting the natural, inherent, inalienable/unalienable right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.

[NoSheep]

36. Jebus I can't believe this thread got moved!

Is there any hope at all?

[asdjrocky]

41. Wow.

Just, well, wow. I don't know this place any more. In all the time I've been posting and reading here I don't think I've ever had a thread moved or locked. What the hell? Did they read all of the post? Did they see only half of it had anything at all to do with guns, and it was tongue in cheek.

I just don't know how much I'll be coming back here in the future. I just don't get it. Was it that controversial? Did I insult someone, or break some kind of rule?

[NoSheep]

48. This seems out of sync to me. I really can't imagine anything other than

a poor decision...perhaps one not very well thought out, to move the thread. There's one in EVERY crowd I guess.

[villager]

37. You mean "I'm the NRA -- I'm actually sane!?"

Well, that would certainly be a novel twist...!

[AtheistCrusader]

38. Pass. You're not going to alter the NRA's activities, and you'll just be giving them money.

Screw the NRA. The fear mongering they are drumming up is really starting to worry me.

[yay]

47. The brady bunch isn't any better.

Honestly, the NRA and the brady bunch are one in the same. They spread fear through lies and logical falsities.

[TWiley]

39. Republicans do it ..... anti immigration people took control of the Seirra Club

They have been attempting (with some success) to capture and divert money contributed to ecological causes into a racist anti-immigration policy.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if the democrats seized control of the NRA?

[asdjrocky]

42. Sorry, but what a fucking load.

I mentioned teabagging as well, do we have a teabagging forum? What about all the people that post about celebrities or the "octomom" in GD?

This was mostly a joke post, and I talked about more than guns in the post. Sometimes I just don't understand this place.

[X_Digger]

44. Wanna see DU asplode?

Post in GD about a Palestinian catholic who supports gun control. It'd be moved so many times it'd get skid marks. *grin*

[asdjrocky]

45. You know... I might just try that.

Maybe I'll have him be an out spoken advocate for medical marijuana as well.

[NoSheep]

49. I guess the person who moved the thread isn't smart enough to understand what you were

really writing about. I can't say I'm all that surprised, come to think of it.

[NewMoonTherian]

50. I actually do that.

With regard to protest crashing. I show up early to PeTA KFC protests with a couple of friends and a bucket of original(now we get the buffalo bites). It's a counterprotest, no fault in that.

I heard a commercial for a tea party in my town wherein the announcer actually said something to the effect of, "Let's teabag the big spenders in Washington." I had to pull off the road because I couldn't stop laughing. It's the most popular talk radio show in town.

[Hoopla Phil]

53. I'll join if you pay. Thanks

[Unrepentant Fenian]

54. Join for FREE on THEIR dime.......

That's right, a free one year membership and a one year subscription to their mag. Just remember to give them a fake phone number, if not, I hear they'll never stop bothering you. Just click the link... http://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/
Thanks ARFCOM for the link.