Spurwink member parts ways with gun club over NRA
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Member parts ways with gun club over NRA
www.pressherald.com/news/member-parts-ways-with-gun-club-over-nra_2011-1... This guy is a typical red necked Mainer. My way or the highway! Little does he realize what the NRA has done for him and what the NRA can do for this club if it is 100% NRA. Just look at the estimated six figures it is costing the Falmouth R&G Club to get re-certified as a safe range and not one nickle from the NRA because they are not an NRA club. If they had been the NRA would have fought the fight and ponied up some of the money.
As the treasurer of another club I ac attest that we have received thousands of NRA grant dollars for our Junior Rifle program by being NRA all the way. Spurwink wants to do the same and these target grade competition rifles are darned expensive. It is not an emotion issue, it is a dollars and cents issue.
Mr Roos, by allowing the media and its anti gun rhetoric to use his story he has done further damage to our cause.
No one has had more issues with the NRA than I. We have disagreed many times and I have written scathing letters to them. However they are the loudest and strongest voice the gun owner has and to waste that as Mr. Roos has shown is traitorous. What say you?
It's really sad that some people can be so willfully ignorant. Then again, to paraphrase the famous Reagan quote, the problem isn't that they're ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so. It's hard for me to understand why there are so many of these people, call them "sheep" or "fudds", who just blindly listen to and believe ridiculous lies from the media and the anti freedom lobby. It really doesn't take a whole lot of effort in today's web based information world to corroborate or refute anything that you see or hear.
It does seem to me though that outside of the nanny states in the Northeast, people are starting to get it. People are seeing the light. According to FBI NICS data, firearm sales are setting new records every month. People like Mr. Roos in the newspaper article are going the way of the dodo bird. NSSF surveys show that the majority of the people who are buying guns are doing so because they want to take responsibility for their safety and personal protection. They have little or no interest in hunting or the things that Mr. Roos classifies as why he "needs" his Perazzi. It's abundantly clear when you look at what people are buying: black rifles and concealed carry guns, big dealers can't give away hunting guns. States are adopting permitless carry laws and the states with new carry permit laws (like Wisconsin) are seeing more applicants than they can process. Michael Bane calls it "Gun Culture version 2.0".
People like Mr. Roos had better wake up and smell the coffee, because if they don't get on board and become contributing members soon, the people who are driving the shooting and firearms industry with our dollars are going to see the hunting and tweed jacket shotgun community as expendable. i.e. the Second Amendment isn't about hunting, nobody needs those guns to protect themselves or their family, they're only good for killing helpless endangered animals.
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"What say you?"
I am a life member of the NRA, but they compromise away our rights on a regular basis. Gun Owners of America is far more effective today and they don't compromise.
That's what I say.