Why Do Other Gun-Rights Orgs Not have Big Support?
The below spun off from another "on-going" thread on the NRA. This opens up a different angle on the NRA issue, e.g. why do they have all the support and why don't other gun-rights groups get mass membership numbers. The underlaying message, I think, was that those of us pointing out negative NRA issues are off-base and that those who support the NRA are correct because of the huge number of Americans who support the NRA.
Interesting topic I think.
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Originally posted by sig:
"Yes they would have a large party and celebrate with the Brady bunch and others.
The NRA is very important to retaining the second amendment in this country. My opinion.
Gun-owners don't appear to be supporting anyone else. None of the other groups have any significant membership. Gee! I wonder why that is?? Anyone have the answer?
Divide and conquer, is that a viable solution?"
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I felt it a fair question, deserving of an answer.
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Hi sig.
Yep I have at least part of the answer to the question you posed.
Your very opening point, makes mine. That is that the NRA is very important in retaining the Second Amendment in America, in your opinion.
Allow me to expand on that thought and to answer your question.
One must remember that the NRA has been a large part of "American Culture" and has had the status of an "American Institution" since the late 1800's. As such, it is ingrained into the fabric of American Society. Case in point, look at the "red haze of hate" that comes over many who feel strongly about the positive force they believe the NRA to be, simply because some want to show what the NRA has become and what actions they ACTUALLY take, not what they say they do.
I see this phenomenon as similar to finding out that ones wife has been steadily cheating on you since before you even got married.
As a historical organization and an "American Institution", the NRA has access to the trust and "institutional support" that goes along with its status. The NRA has people purchasing memberships for their children, their friends, as gifts etc.. All this is based on the TRUST and the historical perspective that the NRA enjoys with the American people.
In my opinion, therein lays the problem. Since the NRA is so well entrenched with Americans and since most of our fathers, mothers, grandfathers etc have been proud NRA Members, we follow along in the same belief, trust and faith that America has always had in the NRA.
Sadly, the NRA has proven to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, whether intentional as I believe, or unwittingly by originally starting down the compromise road with good intentions.
Doesn't really matter which historical road they took. It is what it is.
Most of the other "newer" gun-rights organizations sprang up DUE TO the truth about the NRA. Many saw that the NRA was talking a good game, but that they were actually facilitating and assisting in the slow erosion of Amendment II. These "new upstart" groups, have NONE of the institutional entrenchment and generational historical support that the NRA enjoys.
Many Americans see that the NRA is a danger to true Amendment II rights, through their insidious deals and acceptance of government regulation of all things firearm. My personal opinion is that the NRA is and has been in cahoots with a predatory government for many years and that their role is to "sell" slow infringements of the RTKBA to the American People. What better organization than an American Institution, that has the trust and respect of America's gun owners, to facilitate and assist in gaining the acceptance of the American people in total government regulation of firearms?
It is a testament to the TRUTH about the NRA that the membership in some of these groups is over 500,000. Not sure of the exact membership figures, but it is illustrative of a growing awakening and acknowledgment of the truth of NRA complicity in gun-control and in NOT supporting the Second Amendment as enumerated in the US Constitution's Bill of Rights.
I calls them like I sees them. This is how I see it.
Interesting topic I think.
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Originally posted by sig:
"Yes they would have a large party and celebrate with the Brady bunch and others.
The NRA is very important to retaining the second amendment in this country. My opinion.
Gun-owners don't appear to be supporting anyone else. None of the other groups have any significant membership. Gee! I wonder why that is?? Anyone have the answer?
Divide and conquer, is that a viable solution?"
____________________________________________________________
I felt it a fair question, deserving of an answer.
____________________________________________________________
Hi sig.
Yep I have at least part of the answer to the question you posed.
Your very opening point, makes mine. That is that the NRA is very important in retaining the Second Amendment in America, in your opinion.
Allow me to expand on that thought and to answer your question.
One must remember that the NRA has been a large part of "American Culture" and has had the status of an "American Institution" since the late 1800's. As such, it is ingrained into the fabric of American Society. Case in point, look at the "red haze of hate" that comes over many who feel strongly about the positive force they believe the NRA to be, simply because some want to show what the NRA has become and what actions they ACTUALLY take, not what they say they do.
I see this phenomenon as similar to finding out that ones wife has been steadily cheating on you since before you even got married.
As a historical organization and an "American Institution", the NRA has access to the trust and "institutional support" that goes along with its status. The NRA has people purchasing memberships for their children, their friends, as gifts etc.. All this is based on the TRUST and the historical perspective that the NRA enjoys with the American people.
In my opinion, therein lays the problem. Since the NRA is so well entrenched with Americans and since most of our fathers, mothers, grandfathers etc have been proud NRA Members, we follow along in the same belief, trust and faith that America has always had in the NRA.
Sadly, the NRA has proven to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, whether intentional as I believe, or unwittingly by originally starting down the compromise road with good intentions.
Doesn't really matter which historical road they took. It is what it is.
Most of the other "newer" gun-rights organizations sprang up DUE TO the truth about the NRA. Many saw that the NRA was talking a good game, but that they were actually facilitating and assisting in the slow erosion of Amendment II. These "new upstart" groups, have NONE of the institutional entrenchment and generational historical support that the NRA enjoys.
Many Americans see that the NRA is a danger to true Amendment II rights, through their insidious deals and acceptance of government regulation of all things firearm. My personal opinion is that the NRA is and has been in cahoots with a predatory government for many years and that their role is to "sell" slow infringements of the RTKBA to the American People. What better organization than an American Institution, that has the trust and respect of America's gun owners, to facilitate and assist in gaining the acceptance of the American people in total government regulation of firearms?
It is a testament to the TRUTH about the NRA that the membership in some of these groups is over 500,000. Not sure of the exact membership figures, but it is illustrative of a growing awakening and acknowledgment of the truth of NRA complicity in gun-control and in NOT supporting the Second Amendment as enumerated in the US Constitution's Bill of Rights.
I calls them like I sees them. This is how I see it.
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Seems to me you have already answered the question. But they are growing, the NRA is shrinking. These things don't repair themselves overnight. Some people will never admit that they were wrong. I used to be a member from the age of 10, through my mid 20's, then I started to ask, why? Why all these hoops to jump through? Somebody was supposed to keep this from happening. Tired of feeding pig, I sought an alternative and was sorry for my support of traitors. How did it become respected to compromise away, a right?? The alternative for me, life membership in RMGO. 0
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