Will the Real NRA Please Stand Up, Please Stand up?

[AttackPlanR]

I've been thinking (yes, thinking). I'd like take the half-full approach and believe that the majority of the members of the NRA are actually fairly level headed, ordinary folks. Why can't a band of them get together and say something like, "I've been a member of the NRA for ____ years. I like hunting, I like shooting for sport, and / or I like to collect guns, etc. My mother / father taught me about guns and I plan to do the same with my son / daughter. I believe that the 2nd Amendment is a Right, but something needs to change. We need to have a serious talk about things"?

Heck, even George W. Bush told the NRA to get bent when they referred to law enforcement as "jack-booted thugs" or something like that. There has got to be some rational members out there in prominent positions who should step up and speak for what has to be the core membership of the NRA. We've heard about how many new members they have had in the last few weeks. Are people also leaving them in droves?

Is there any room for such a moderate point of view within the NRA?

Just a thought.

[songfourone]

I've been thinking (yes, thinking). I'd like take the half-full approach and believe that the majority of the members of the NRA are actually fairly level headed, ordinary folks. Why can't a band of them get together and say something like, "I've been a member of the NRA for ____ years. I like hunting, I like shooting for sport, and / or I like to collect guns, etc. My mother / father taught me about guns and I plan to do the same with my son / daughter. I believe that the 2nd Amendment is a Right, but something needs to change. We need to have a serious talk about things"?

Heck, even George W. Bush told the NRA to get bent when they referred to law enforcement as "jack-booted thugs" or something like that. There has got to be some rational members out there in prominent positions who should step up and speak for what has to be the core membership of the NRA. We've heard about how many new members they have had in the last few weeks. Are people also leaving them in droves?

Is there any room for such a moderate point of view within the NRA?

Just a thought.

Have you read some of the posters????

[cprenegade]

I've been thinking (yes, thinking). I'd like take the half-full approach and believe that the majority of the members of the NRA are actually fairly level headed, ordinary folks. Why can't a band of them get together and say something like, "I've been a member of the NRA for ____ years. I like hunting, I like shooting for sport, and / or I like to collect guns, etc. My mother / father taught me about guns and I plan to do the same with my son / daughter. I believe that the 2nd Amendment is a Right, but something needs to change. We need to have a serious talk about things"?

Heck, even George W. Bush told the NRA to get bent when they referred to law enforcement as "jack-booted thugs" or something like that. There has got to be some rational members out there in prominent positions who should step up and speak for what has to be the core membership of the NRA. We've heard about how many new members they have had in the last few weeks. Are people also leaving them in droves?

Is there any room for such a moderate point of view within the NRA?

Just a thought.

I think a lot of NRA members are probably reasonable people. (Don't know that as fact since I am not a member, but just assuming) But much of the problem is that they see these little things as simply stepping stones to bigger things taking away their guns. And can you really blame them? Government has a history of getting their foot into the door, saying things will not be expanded, and then expanding things quite quickly. One needs only to look at the speed camera and gambling issues in Maryland. Both were pitched as smaller issues to stem the tide of people who might be opposed to much more of both. Speed camera's started off as only a handfull in each county, gambling was restricted to a few casino's in select places. Once each was passed, the Maryland state government approved more and more locations for speed cameras, and expanded gambling to include table games and more locations. Most NRA members probably would not have an issue with the measures being taken. In fact, the NRA has been calling for the prosecution of the gun laws on the books for quite some time. But they, like most of us, have seen how government tends to get their foot in the door with small measures, and then up the ante once they have that foot in the door. Government tends to operate that way. They realize that getting from point A to point D is unobtainable, so they go from A to B, then to C and finally to D. And by the time people realize what has gone on, it is done. Maybe that is why the NRA fights so hard to keep things from going from point A to B. If government showed a little more restraint, maybe it would get less resistance from the people.

[SemiAuto]

When people go around saying that an AR-15 with a bayonet lug is an assault rifle but one without the lug isn't moderate gun owners laugh. That has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment or the NRA but everything to do with people who want to regulate guns but don't appear to have a clue about them.

If some psychopath is planning on going on a killing spree do you think the fact that his 10 round mags are legal and his 30 round mags aren't is going to stop him in the slightest? If your answer is no then you're taking the moderate position.

Yet I'm told this is common sense gun law. Does anyone buy that?

[cprenegade]

When people go around saying that an AR-15 with a bayonet lug is an assault rifle but one without the lug isn't moderate gun owners laugh. That has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment or the NRA but everything to do with people who want to regulate guns but don't appear to have a clue about them.

If some psychopath is planning on going on a killing spree do you think the fact that his 10 round mags are legal and his 30 round mags aren't is going to stop him in the slightest? If your answer is no then you're taking the moderate position.

Yet I'm told this is common sense gun law. Does anyone buy that?

No. Most of the points put forward today are nothing more than feel good legislation that does not amount to anything other than politicians being able to say they did something. Nothing enacted today, or in Cuomo's legislation, would have stopped what happenend in Newtown. But politicians feel the need to say they did something, so they did. Meanwhile, the true causes of the problem remain untreated and the disease will continue. It is a staple of the current government. It is not unlike the healthcare act. The true causes of high health care prices were left untouched, but at least there was legislation that could be trumpeted by the politicians who could say to the masses, "We did something good."

[dsummoner]

Fascist Libbies, so intent on moderating their fear of inanimate objects, by licking the government boot, citing Bush Jr... priceless.

[ivanbalt]

In today's political arena, rational thought has no place. Must be as extreme as possible.

There are no headlines when you are reasonable.