Comments on: The NRA: From Gloom to Complacency? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:59:14 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Herb http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-447282 Herb Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:14:41 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-447282 I am planning on attending the Charlotte convention next year and I am excited about all the recent trending...the increased # of concealed carry applications, the increased sales etc because it all points to a more aware population. I am planning on attending the Charlotte convention next year and I am excited about all the recent trending…the increased # of concealed carry applications, the increased sales etc because it all points to a more aware population.

]]> By: Instapundit » Blog Archive » A RIFLE IN ONE HAND, A LAPTOP IN THE OTHER: The Christian Science Monitor interviews some gunblogge… http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-261374 Instapundit » Blog Archive » A RIFLE IN ONE HAND, A LAPTOP IN THE OTHER: The Christian Science Monitor interviews some gunblogge… Sun, 17 May 2009 20:16:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-261374 [...] Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, here’s my report from last year’s NRA convention. [...] [...] Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, here’s my report from last year’s NRA convention. [...]

]]> By: Gozer the Carpathian http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-43976 Gozer the Carpathian Fri, 23 May 2008 05:09:18 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-43976 Well after reading "America's First Freedom" every month for a few years now I can say that the NRA isn't complacent. We're always reporting, if not activly fighting all sorts of gun ban/control efforts across the globe. They've been pushing for state laws across the nation to prevent New Orleans style gun grabs (I think 5 states have laws against that BS now), more concealed carry laws, more fair enforcement of concealed carry, they recently won a fight in Florida to allow folks to carry firearms locked in their cars on buisness property. There are LOTS of fights all the time (especially here in California) so I wouldn't say they're being lazy. More like on a winning high. The fight has been long and it continues today, so you've gotta smile now and then. Too much gloom and doom for too long drags down folks after all. Well after reading “America’s First Freedom” every month for a few years now I can say that the NRA isn’t complacent. We’re always reporting, if not activly fighting all sorts of gun ban/control efforts across the globe. They’ve been pushing for state laws across the nation to prevent New Orleans style gun grabs (I think 5 states have laws against that BS now), more concealed carry laws, more fair enforcement of concealed carry, they recently won a fight in Florida to allow folks to carry firearms locked in their cars on buisness property. There are LOTS of fights all the time (especially here in California) so I wouldn’t say they’re being lazy.

More like on a winning high. The fight has been long and it continues today, so you’ve gotta smile now and then. Too much gloom and doom for too long drags down folks after all.

]]> By: Smokey http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-43234 Smokey Thu, 22 May 2008 04:06:32 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-43234 I became an NRA member in 1997. They never sent my magazine, despite numerous, repeated requests. My 3-year membership expired. I sent in more $$$ for another membership, then moved to a different address. I requested an address change. Didn't happen. I called again, talked to some geezer who absolutely promised me that he had fixed my address. I still didn't get the magazine I'd ordered. This went on until I gave up. I haven't renewed since. If the NRA doesn't get its act together and service its membership, that membership will gradually disappear. As ALWAYS, this type of problem comes from the TOP. My message to the NRA [which I still love]: WAKE UP!! I became an NRA member in 1997. They never sent my magazine, despite numerous, repeated requests.

My 3-year membership expired. I sent in more $$$ for another membership, then moved to a different address. I requested an address change. Didn’t happen. I called again, talked to some geezer who absolutely promised me that he had fixed my address.

I still didn’t get the magazine I’d ordered. This went on until I gave up. I haven’t renewed since.

If the NRA doesn’t get its act together and service its membership, that membership will gradually disappear. As ALWAYS, this type of problem comes from the TOP.

My message to the NRA [which I still love]: WAKE UP!!

]]> By: Chuck http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-43192 Chuck Thu, 22 May 2008 02:01:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-43192 I just recently got my lifetime NRA membership. I determined to put my money where my mouth was. Made me feel real good. I also belong to Ducks Unlimited, National Wild Turkey Federation and other outdoors clubs. I belong to each for a different reason. I am a strict constitutionalist, thus I belong to the NRA. The others are looking after our wildlife habitat. The NRA has been a shelter in the storm and we need to keep on suppoting it with our money and our time. tthe I just recently got my lifetime NRA membership. I determined to put my money where my mouth was. Made me feel real good. I also belong to Ducks Unlimited, National Wild Turkey Federation and other outdoors clubs. I belong to each for a different reason. I am a strict constitutionalist, thus I belong to the NRA. The others are looking after our wildlife habitat. The NRA has been a shelter in the storm and we need to keep on suppoting it with our money and our time. tthe

]]> By: Gene Hoffman http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-42275 Gene Hoffman Tue, 20 May 2008 20:21:58 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-42275 I'm sure NRA members (of which I am one as well) are very happy about the state of affairs as Heller nears. However, I'm concerned that the guys who actually did the work - Levy and Gura - were not invited and treated like kings. Would the NAACP have neglected to invite Thurgood Marshall after Chambers? -Gene I’m sure NRA members (of which I am one as well) are very happy about the state of affairs as Heller nears. However, I’m concerned that the guys who actually did the work – Levy and Gura – were not invited and treated like kings.

Would the NAACP have neglected to invite Thurgood Marshall after Chambers?

-Gene

]]> By: Son http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-42190 Son Tue, 20 May 2008 18:15:28 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-42190 IF...N.R.A. members have fallen into a state of complacency they are simply reflecting the condition of the N.R.A., who has been collecting $$s for decades and not much else. Any real accomplishments achieved in the order of slowing gun control has been due to the men and women citizen voters who have a dedicated interest in the 2nd Amendment. One might also consider the distinct possibility that by throwing a bone to the citizens of this nation in the form of favorable 2nd Amendment rulings, it's much easier to disembowel the other troublesome aspects of the Constitution and it's pesky Amendments. There are currently 27 Amendments to the Constitution. When was the last time you read them? When was the last time you considered their current interpretation? When was the last time you determined how they are being subverted, ignored, violated, or upheld in your community? This is your job as a citizen of the USA. Those who rely on the NRA, or any other 'citizens group', to protect and maintain their rights as citizens are simply shirking their responsibilities as citizens. IF…N.R.A. members have fallen into a state of complacency they are simply reflecting the condition of the N.R.A., who has been collecting $$s for decades and not much else.
Any real accomplishments achieved in the order of slowing gun control has been due to the men and women citizen voters who have a dedicated interest in the 2nd Amendment.
One might also consider the distinct possibility that by throwing a bone to the citizens of this nation in the form of favorable 2nd Amendment rulings, it’s much easier to disembowel the other troublesome aspects of the Constitution and it’s pesky Amendments.
There are currently 27 Amendments to the Constitution. When was the last time you read them?
When was the last time you considered their current interpretation?
When was the last time you determined how they are being subverted, ignored, violated, or upheld in your community?
This is your job as a citizen of the USA. Those who rely on the NRA, or any other ‘citizens group’, to protect and maintain their rights as citizens are simply shirking their responsibilities as citizens.

]]> By: Ten http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-41593 Ten Mon, 19 May 2008 20:20:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-41593 <i>...the corporately owned government of the U.S. ignores the law whenever it feels like it...</i> Hal von Luebbert makes a point Reynolds should research and comment upon. Deeply and frequently: The System is by now so beholden to power and special interest, that it, as far as we subjects whose rights are destroyed are concerned, operates as a monolithic bloc. This, of course, is what happens when you do a few basic things, or rather allow them to occur: 1. Elect panderers. A good example is the NRA and its members believing Clinton somehow doesn't yet represent a dire threat to the Second Amendment. 2. Give panderers the ability to become career politicians. 3. Allow lobbies that buy laws that serve commercial interests. 4. And, to enable all this anti-personal rights stuff, replace a government dedicated to preserving personal them with a service provider. When the hordes of Socialists show up in Portland for Obamessiah worship, you know we've tipped that direction. JFK's adage to do for your country is dead. The problem with the mere left versus right power-grabbing that's gripped this country and paralyzed its government respecting the individual's sovereignty, is that only the flavor of entitlements, favors, assaults on personal rights, and private sector-invading legislation changes. As much on the right as the left, make no mistake. I'm glad von Luebbert has brought the problem of authoritarianism to light in the context of an article about personal liberty. As a presumed libertarian, Reynolds -- as well as a conservative blogosphere that's been almost entirely lax in exposing the problem of collective power -- should write about how we've basically sold anything and everything to the highest bidder walking the halls of power. The result is precisely as von Luebbert notes. …the corporately owned government of the U.S. ignores the law whenever it feels like it…

Hal von Luebbert makes a point Reynolds should research and comment upon. Deeply and frequently: The System is by now so beholden to power and special interest, that it, as far as we subjects whose rights are destroyed are concerned, operates as a monolithic bloc. This, of course, is what happens when you do a few basic things, or rather allow them to occur:

1. Elect panderers. A good example is the NRA and its members believing Clinton somehow doesn’t yet represent a dire threat to the Second Amendment.

2. Give panderers the ability to become career politicians.

3. Allow lobbies that buy laws that serve commercial interests.

4. And, to enable all this anti-personal rights stuff, replace a government dedicated to preserving personal them with a service provider. When the hordes of Socialists show up in Portland for Obamessiah worship, you know we’ve tipped that direction. JFK’s adage to do for your country is dead.

The problem with the mere left versus right power-grabbing that’s gripped this country and paralyzed its government respecting the individual’s sovereignty, is that only the flavor of entitlements, favors, assaults on personal rights, and private sector-invading legislation changes. As much on the right as the left, make no mistake.

I’m glad von Luebbert has brought the problem of authoritarianism to light in the context of an article about personal liberty. As a presumed libertarian, Reynolds — as well as a conservative blogosphere that’s been almost entirely lax in exposing the problem of collective power — should write about how we’ve basically sold anything and everything to the highest bidder walking the halls of power. The result is precisely as von Luebbert notes.

]]> By: Voolfie http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-41505 Voolfie Mon, 19 May 2008 17:11:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-41505 I wonder if, perhaps, what may appear - at first glance - to be complacency, isn't simply a well-deserved round of self-congratulations. I have no doubt that on Wednesday, November 5th - the sleeves will be rolled back up and the (maybe greatly) harder work of keeping our most basic rights safe from the Democratic masters of Orwellian "Newspeak" will begin. If the conventional wisdom is correct about a Democratic landslide in the Fall, the next four years are going to be tougher, not easier. I wonder if, perhaps, what may appear – at first glance – to be complacency, isn’t simply a well-deserved round of self-congratulations. I have no doubt that on Wednesday, November 5th – the sleeves will be rolled back up and the (maybe greatly) harder work of keeping our most basic rights safe from the Democratic masters of Orwellian “Newspeak” will begin. If the conventional wisdom is correct about a Democratic landslide in the Fall, the next four years are going to be tougher, not easier.

]]> By: A. Reader http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/comment-page-1/#comment-41498 A. Reader Mon, 19 May 2008 17:00:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nra-from-gloom-to-complacency/#comment-41498 Interesting that a Toronto paper published a completely opposite opinion: http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/427320 Interesting that a Toronto paper published a completely opposite opinion:

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/427320

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