New York AG Aiming to Dissolve NRA

[Specter Von Baren]

Wholeheartedly.

While I am a firearm owner myself, I felt no need to join the NRA because their politics are not my own. And their politics tend to run more with the Republican Party ideals.

The Republicans have seen a lot of strength just be stubbornly banding together. It's why some conservatives love it when Democrats, independents, and Progressives fight amongst each other. If we're not unified and they are, they come out on top.

Think about it. The majority of America is either Democrats or Independents with Left Leanings. But the left has so many different ways it wants to branch out towards, or so many issues that they feel takes the most pressing spot that they can never agree on what to do next.

Republicans just need to stay the course. And that inertia alone has granted them a lot of power. The NRA, while along side them through the apexes and valleys of the Republican Political Power frequency, would be fools to not try to band together again to usurp power again.

Hell, this could be the best thing that ever happened for the NRA. Slap a Latina President for the new organization and then you'll get more minorities and women than ever before. Assure those in the old guard that this is just a method to get more votes for the cause and you'll have a political party from the corpse of the NRA the likes of which they would have never achieved keeping to their old image.

Didn't the Gallup poll also recently show that most black Americans want the same or more police presence in their neighborhoods?

Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

It's not so much the volume of interactions Black Americans have with the police that troubles them or differentiates them from other racial groups, but rather the quality of those interactions.

news.gallup.com

 

[fOx]

I was thinking that we haven't heard about NRA in awhile now and then I realize it's because all school in america were closed for the lock down so there wasn't any school shooting.

It would be strange to dissolve the institution rather than just remove the guilty party and letting unimplicated person take charge, no? Also, aren't there a bunch of megachurch that also use donation to fund lavish lifestyle for their head priest and that's totally okay?

tbh I never really understood giving money to these kinds of organisation, so I sorta don't see what the problem is. It's not like your buying a service, you're giving the money away, what the recipient does with it is entirely up to them. Like, couldn't they just claim all that money was just part of their salary?

It does seem strange, doesn't it? I would probably argue that it would be better to reform the organization then to dissolve it, since the organization itself is the victim, but I'm just too busy playing violent video games, watching violent movies, and listening to violent music.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Thoughts and prayers people, thoughts and prayers.

 

[CM156]

Will be interested in seeing what develops from this suit.

I should disclaim that I'm a life member of the NRA (I got this almost a decade ago) but as of recently I've been dissatisfied with many aspects of the organization.

 

[Trunkage]

Will be interested in seeing what develops from this suit.

I should disclaim that I'm a life member of the NRA (I got this almost a decade ago) but as of recently I've been dissatisfied with many aspects of the organization.

I should say so. The NRA used to be a reasonable institution, that used to help people, that got political to win certain votes. It's become a niche product when guns and how to use them should be for everyone

 

[fOx]

Will be interested in seeing what develops from this suit.

I should disclaim that I'm a life member of the NRA (I got this almost a decade ago) but as of recently I've been dissatisfied with many aspects of the organization.

You should be. Even if you support their cause, their leaders have been embezzling your membership dues.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I should say so. The NRA used to be a reasonable institution, that used to help people, that got political to win certain votes. It's become a niche product when guns and how to use them should be for everyone

Pretty much this.

As a gun owner I find the perception of gun owners that the NRA creates to be sad and embarrassing. The NRA lost all credibility when it stayed silent about the murder of Philando Castile, and tacitly approves of the kind of continued violence against American citizens that it always claimed to stand against.

If the NRA dies I hope a significantly better gun rights organization takes its place.

 

[Dalisclock]

Pretty much this.

As a gun owner I find the perception of gun owners that the NRA creates to be sad and embarrassing. The NRA lost all credibility when it stayed silent about the murder of Philando Castile, and tacitly approves of the kind of continued violence against American citizens that it always claimed to stand against.

If the NRA dies I hope a significantly better gun rights organization takes its place.

I'm a gun owner and used to be an NRA Life member, but I drifted away from them when I saw how far they were drifting into the crazy paranoid nutter fringe wing of the right wing movement(or....the right wing movement in general). The NRA had a couple of periodicals, one of which was a politics based one called American Guardian, which at some point became Americas First Freedom. And man, did it become increasingly hard to take seriously considering how hyperbolic it became.

Eventually, due a number of reasons, I cut up my Life Membership card, put the pieces in an envelope and mailed it back to the NRA with a letter explaining I wanted to be stripped from their membership rolls. I had long since stopped sending them any money and my life membership meant I didn't have to pay yearly dues.

At this point, value they had as a gun safety foundation has long since been overshadowed by their work as a campaign arm of the GOP and I'm not sad to see it go.