I do wish Clay would separate “gun owner”, like me, folks who believe in the Second Amendment, AND regulation as called for by SCOTUS in “D.C. vs Heller”, and responsible gun ownership, from the NRA and their constant support for access to weapons civlians DO NOT NEED! It’s been a long time since NRA stood for support of hunters with rifles and shotguns intended for hunting, and switched their focus ot “protect” short weapons with high capacity magazines, AND the ever popular armor piercing bullets. (intended for hunting PEOPLE!)
Right. Clay is a moron because no gun owner ever pulled a gun on someone who just knocked on the door. Do you conservatives even read the news? Or does your news exclude gun violence?
dtroutma said: “I do wish Clay would separate ‘gun owner’, like me, folks who believe in the Second Amendment, AND regulation as called for by SCOTUS in ‘D.C. vs Heller’, and responsible gun ownership, from the NRA and their constant support for access to weapons civlians DO NOT NEED!”
Nope; sorry, dtroutma. It’s not Clay’s job to separate ‘gun owner(s)’ like you from the NRA. It’s the job of gun owners like you to separate YOURSELVES from the NRA. If you don’t like how the NRA is representing gun owners like you, DON’t JOIN! If gun owners like you don’t like how they’re being represented by the NRA, then RESIGN YOUR MEMBERSHIPS! (I give the Elder George Bush a lot of credit for having the cojones to do this after the NRA’s “Jackbooted thugs” statement.) If gun owners like you don’t like how the NRA is representing you before Congress, then STOP GIVING THEM MONEY EVERY TIME THEY SEND OUT THEIR OVER-THE-TOP PROPAGANDA! If gun owners like you don’t like the NRA’s stewardship of the “tradition” of firearms in America, THEN TAKE IT BACK!!!
You have only yourselves to blame for the current state of affairs in regards to being seen as paranoid, shoot-first-and-have-no-regrets villains because you let the worst examples of your group take over and become your face and voice — and now it’s the ONLY face and voice that anyone sees or hears in regards to gun ownership. So pardon me if I have no sympathy for your complaint — or you.
@ martens: Even if point #2 is irrelevant in dtroutma’s particular case, the rest of my post still stands: As long as gun owners let the NRA be the face and voice of gun owners — whether the gun owners want the NRA to be that face and voice or not — then the American public (and, indeed, the rest of the world) will continue to associate the NRA with gun ownership. (And all that that association implies.)
reynard61 over 10 years ago
Do they even bother to ask anymore?
kaffekup over 10 years ago
I think that secretly, they can’t wait to use them. Awful to buy something and never be able to use it. On the range? Too much like training.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
I do wish Clay would separate “gun owner”, like me, folks who believe in the Second Amendment, AND regulation as called for by SCOTUS in “D.C. vs Heller”, and responsible gun ownership, from the NRA and their constant support for access to weapons civlians DO NOT NEED! It’s been a long time since NRA stood for support of hunters with rifles and shotguns intended for hunting, and switched their focus ot “protect” short weapons with high capacity magazines, AND the ever popular armor piercing bullets. (intended for hunting PEOPLE!)
jimguess over 10 years ago
I will. Bennett is a moron.
ARodney over 10 years ago
Right. Clay is a moron because no gun owner ever pulled a gun on someone who just knocked on the door. Do you conservatives even read the news? Or does your news exclude gun violence?
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
Thanks martens, a fact the NRA constantly denies.
reynard61 over 10 years ago
dtroutma said: “I do wish Clay would separate ‘gun owner’, like me, folks who believe in the Second Amendment, AND regulation as called for by SCOTUS in ‘D.C. vs Heller’, and responsible gun ownership, from the NRA and their constant support for access to weapons civlians DO NOT NEED!”
Nope; sorry, dtroutma. It’s not Clay’s job to separate ‘gun owner(s)’ like you from the NRA. It’s the job of gun owners like you to separate YOURSELVES from the NRA. If you don’t like how the NRA is representing gun owners like you, DON’t JOIN! If gun owners like you don’t like how they’re being represented by the NRA, then RESIGN YOUR MEMBERSHIPS! (I give the Elder George Bush a lot of credit for having the cojones to do this after the NRA’s “Jackbooted thugs” statement.) If gun owners like you don’t like how the NRA is representing you before Congress, then STOP GIVING THEM MONEY EVERY TIME THEY SEND OUT THEIR OVER-THE-TOP PROPAGANDA! If gun owners like you don’t like the NRA’s stewardship of the “tradition” of firearms in America, THEN TAKE IT BACK!!!
You have only yourselves to blame for the current state of affairs in regards to being seen as paranoid, shoot-first-and-have-no-regrets villains because you let the worst examples of your group take over and become your face and voice — and now it’s the ONLY face and voice that anyone sees or hears in regards to gun ownership. So pardon me if I have no sympathy for your complaint — or you.
reynard61 over 10 years ago
@ martens: Even if point #2 is irrelevant in dtroutma’s particular case, the rest of my post still stands: As long as gun owners let the NRA be the face and voice of gun owners — whether the gun owners want the NRA to be that face and voice or not — then the American public (and, indeed, the rest of the world) will continue to associate the NRA with gun ownership. (And all that that association implies.)