Beg to differ with you BluesStringer... The OP just urged everyone to join the orgniztion, period. Seems to me you, and others here, have personal grievance to bear... It just surprises me that there is so much haterd in an internet message room... Maybe this board is not for me...
Have a nice day.....
*Edited to add: And my criticisms of the NRA are not "personal" as you conjecture above - nor are they "grievances" per se, because for the short time that I was a member, that mistake was on me for not researching beforehand what kind of .org I was supporting. That was more than 30 years ago. Since then I have done copious amounts of research, much of which I linked to in my first post in this thread. My criticisms of the NRA are general, not personal, and as truthful, verifiable and accurate as any other expressed opinion you can find on this or any other site.
I don't speak for anyone else, but all I did was say why I would never take heed of his urgings. What the heck is wrong with that? I even included several links that validate and substantiate my rationale for not wanting anything to do with the NRA. I told the truth, period. What others who read it do with it is out of my hands, except to say that I do have the ability to offer an opinion of what they say they will (or might) do, and my opinion of you maybe leaving this board just because someone (like myself for instance) offers the truth in rebuttal to obvious, and most likely perfectly innocent ignorance, is that it demonstrates a lack of intellectual aptitude on your part,
not "hatred" of any man or .org on anyone's part who doesn't want to associate with the NRA.
I don't "hate" the NRA anyway. I love freedom though, and the NRA has proven time and again that it will impede my (and your, and everybody else's) freedom if it's politically or financially expedient to do so. They have proven that to my satisfaction, and it is my considered opinion that anyone who studied even half of the links I included in my first post with an intellectually-honest open mind, would at least have to consider the possibility that the NRA have betrayed gun-owners much more than they've ever accomplished anything on our behalf. The appropriate thing to do if you strongly disagree with that, would be to offer counter-point that tends to debunk the thoughts I've expressed, not run from the site because I'm allowed to express them.
And yeah, you have a nice day too, ya hear?
Blues