Anyone here a member of the NRA? Past or present?

[Eric308]

29. Just let my NRA membership lapse

First time poster here. All I can comment upon is personal experience. I grew up in a rural area with a loving father who took me hunting and had a healthy respect for firearms. I still own firearms, hunt, and believe in the individual right to bear arms within a concept of ordered liberty.

The gun industry, the NRA, and far too many gun enthusiasts have strayed too far from the rational and healthy interest in recreational shooting or legitimate self defense.

Go to any gun show or shop today and witness the tactical-gear clad, boorish types who have an unhealthy, fetishistic desire for more and more firearms, using them to live out their societal collapse or government tyranny resistance fantasies. That such events would be a catastrophe for the nation, themselves and their families are lost on them. They are sadly truly disconnected from the wonderful, pluralistic nature of our modern society and this disconnect will only grow as they lack the necessary skill and mindset to thrive in our information based, ethnically and culturally diverse economy. This will in turn only feed their anomie. President's Obama's "bitter clingers" speech may have been politically unwise, but it was spot on.

As a gun owner, I fervently wish the shooting sports and industry would return to its more traditional, legitimate roots and leave the Mad Max lunacy behind.

Constant fomenting of a Timothy McVeigh mindset is the main reason why I let my membership lapse