Gun Control Poll: Most Americans Support Right To Use Deadly Force, Have Favorable View Of NRA

[Glaug-Eldare]

75. I'm for gun rights, but the NRA sucks

People keep urging me to rejoin NRA, people say I'm letting the cause down if I don't, people repost NRA scare tactics... Thing is, NRA isn't even about guns. It's essentially a GOP organ that uses gun issues to frighten the easily-propagandized. Basically, the idea is to tell Americans that "THE DEMMYCRATS ARE COMIN' FER YER GUNS! DONATE NOW!" and just wait for the cash to flood in. Then they tell us that "OBAMA WANTS TO BAN SINGLE-SHOT .22S!" and pray that we'll all scream and run around with chickens with our dicks cut off, and pull the lever for Romney or whoever their GOP friend is. Their real efforts to protect our civil rights are lackluster, and only now are they getting humiliated by SAF and the state groups. Hell, I got a nice letter from NRA the other day begging me to start giving them money for nothing again, and it said "NRA is the ONLY grass-roots organization fighting for your right to keep and bear arms."

Here's my reply to that particular lie:

"Please stop sending me renewal requests. I let my membership lapse for a reason, and I am not interested in being lied to by your organization. Your latest plea for cash states that:

"NRA is the ONLY grass-roots organization fighting for your right to keep and bear arms."

This is a dirty lie, and I think even less of your organization for trying to sell it to me. NRA is neither grass-roots, nor is it fighting for our rights in Maryland.

Maryland Shall Issue is grass-roots, and NRA has specifically informed us that "[NRA] does not work with grass-roots organizations."

The Second Amendment Foundation is fighting for our rights, and NRA is only recently joining the lawsuit scene to avoid humiliation.

NRA is nothing but a top-heavy GOP organ designed to use Second Amendment issues to frighten voters into handing over money.

I've received numerous alerts from Maryland Shall Issue informing me of bad legislation and upcoming committee hearings, of the status of the Woollard case and how to help, of demonstrations and events I could (and have) participated in, etc.

I've read the docket in Woollard v. Maryland, and the efforts and victories of the Second Amendment Foundation are significant and public. They directly impact Marylanders and advance gun rights for the Americans NRA can't be bothered to fight for.

NRA just wants money.

You're ants, and you're going to be swept away by TRUE grass-roots groups committed to more than depositing checks.

Again, stop sending me mail."