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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:12 PM
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Who voted for NRA Association Directors?
I'm an NRA Life Member (joined in my fundamentalist) days and I get the American Rifleman magazine. Once a year we vote for new association directors.

Did anyone here vote? And, if so, how did you make your choices?

I read each of the biographies and try to pick people who I think will be good representatives without being "insane". This year Erik Estrada, Tom Selleck and R. Lee Ermey are on the ballot.

While I enjoy owning and shooting my gun (as does my wife), I don't believe in the direction that the NRA is taking; it's become way too partisan. The NRA feels like it only thinks that Republican right-wingers are gun owners or believers in the second Amendment.

So did anyone else vote?


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mediator Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:31 PM
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1. I've never bothered, don't think it really makes much difference...but the reason they're so partisa
is simple...because so few Democrats will publicly support the RKBA. The NRA has endorsed people of both parties when if they have favorable positions. The fact unfortunately IS that most supporters actually are Republicans...we Democrats who fight to keep our 2nd Amendment rights are in the minority in our own party but we certainly see how adversely gun control agendas affect our electoral chances.
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The Green Manalishi Donating Member (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:54 PM
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4. My analysis is that it is a rural/urban divide more than anything else.
If you live in a city it's easy to think that anyone who believes they need a high power rifle with a 30 round clip is nuts. I mean in SF or NY what good would it be for anyone other than a cop or gang banger? I'm highly pro gun and even I would be uneasy with someone in my apartment building having an AR-15 or an SKS unless they were throughly trained in proper handling. OTOH somebody in a rural area or who goes to a range a lot sees the kind of restrictions that the urban legislators want to put in place and reasonably concludes that these folks are out to deprive him of something he's grown up with and used responsibly.

Since the cities are overwhelmingly Democratic the rest follows. Brilliantly exploited as a wedge issue, but only because we hand the hammer to the Republicans in the first place to beat us with.
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The Green Manalishi Donating Member (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:42 PM
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2. I wish Ben Ezra would run
I might, maybe some day.
Yeah, I'm a marriage equality activist, a hardcore 'Green', a union supporter, work on homeless issues and stridently believe in Universal health care so that we can join every other allegedly civilized nation.
Who I am married to, and the armament on my person or in my closet, are no more anybodies business than what books I've read or what web sites I've visited, it's all of a piece; until I do something to violate somebody else's rights, or have been adjudged impartially to be a danger to others by a medical professional or a jury of my peers no has a right to regulate anything about my life, liberty or property.
just because I want a complete collection of every single firearm fielded by the US, from flintlock to Ma Deuce doesn't mean I want to have to breath the same air as Palin!
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:43 PM
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3. All I had to see was Ted Nugent as a director. n/t
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 10:38 AM
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5. I voted for the celebrities
What the hell.

It would be kind of cool to see the board have Erik Estrada, Tom Selleck and R. Lee Ermey.

Of course it would be WAY cool to have Ed Begley on there. :)
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PavePusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 02:13 PM
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6. I'm not a voting member yet. Two years to go.... n/t
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