Originally Posted by
JC5188
Last time the NRA called me, I asked to be removed from the call/mailing list. I’ve not received anything except renewal reminders since. I’ve spoken with others who had the same results. Could not have been easier.
Same here, yet some would rather not be a member then make this minimal effort.
Originally Posted by
Bulletdog
As usual, Steyr is a sensible guy with well articulated points. However, I have to disagree on this one. Sitting back with a sense of righteous indignation that the other side would dare question our inalienable rights and mentally deciding that the matter is already obvious and already decided is what has led us to this point.
Slight misunderstanding. I'm not sitting back doing nothing and just say "because rights" and leaving it at that. I'm an NRA life member. When I can I donate to the ILA. Every year I probably make more phone calls and send more emails to representatives and the NRA regarding potential legislation than the NRA does. I participate in every GOA legislative alert that comes my way. I'm also a member of a local hunting club, even though I don't hunt anymore, just so I can be involved in teaching gun safety to kids who are new to hunting.
I do what I can that will be effective.
But I don't do missionary work. When I get together with a group of people I know socially I don't ask "Have you heard the good news about guns?" I don't tell people they need a gun and I don't bring it up unless they are asking me about guns.
Now if I'm with a group of people I know socially and someone mentions something like they are afraid of guns, I ask them if they've ever been shooting before and usually they say something like "No because I don't know anything about guns" at which point I will offer to take them shooting and teach them the basics.
But I'm not going door to door or anything like that. I get you are behind the lines and things are different, like I said these things are zip code dependent.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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