Has the NRA lost its way?

[7 Deadly Sins]

I know this may be a touchy subject but I've been seeing forums from all over saying that some people think that the NRA has lost it's way, has become too big, too rich, and/or too corrupt. I may not be an NRA member but want to know about your honest opinion. Has the NRA really lost its way?

[DogDoo 7]

no. it's always been a front for Big Gun. It's never cared about Joe Sharpshooter.

[North Stradia]

Yes, by campaigning against free speech. (suggesting that violent video games be banned)

[Coccygia]

Yes, by campaigning against free speech. (suggesting that violent video games be banned)

Rather than requiring people who play violent video games to carry guns? I guess so...

[Mkuki]

I know this may be a touchy subject but I've been seeing forums from all over saying that some people think that the NRA has lost it's way, has become too big, too rich, and/or too corrupt. I may not be an NRA member but want to know about your honest opinion. Has the NRA really lost its way?

Considering the shift in leadership, and subsequently priorities, back in the 1980s or late 1970s I'd say they've left their original mission of gun safety far in the dust of money and cash.

[7 Deadly Sins]

I know this may be a touchy subject but I've been seeing forums from all over saying that some people think that the NRA has lost it's way, has become too big, too rich, and/or too corrupt. I may not be an NRA member but want to know about your honest opinion. Has the NRA really lost its way?

Considering the shift in leadership, and subsequently priorities, back in the 1980s or late 1970s I'd say they've left their original mission of gun safety far in the dust of money and cash.

So it is true then, that's what I thought

[Khadgar]

I know this may be a touchy subject but I've been seeing forums from all over saying that some people think that the NRA has lost it's way, has become too big, too rich, and/or too corrupt. I may not be an NRA member but want to know about your honest opinion. Has the NRA really lost its way?

All my life the NRA has been nothing but a lobbying force for the gun industry, so if they've lost their way, it's not a recent thing.

[The New Sea Territory]

It's kinda mixed. It promotes Guns, but not violent video games. It is mixed with it's "Freedom".

[Big Jim P]

I don't see that many NRA sponsored safety courses offered in schools any more. I'd say yes.

[Bottle]

Here's what I love about humanity:

The NRA is openly arguing that the solution to rampant gun violence is to increase the number of guns, and that the reason so many students are getting shot is because there aren't enough people carrying guns in school...

...and people are asking if the NRA has lost its way.

[Esternial]

It's led by dumbasses.

Needs a change in leadership.

[Raxion]

The first time I heard of the NRA was in the book Jennifer Government, so I keep imagining a military.

[Khadgar]

Here's what I love about humanity:

The NRA is openly arguing that the solution to rampant gun violence is to increase the number of guns, and that the reason so many students are getting shot is because there aren't enough people carrying guns in school...

...and people are asking if the NRA has lost its way.

I think Carlin was right about the circles just getting smaller and faster.

[Greed and Death]

I think their delaying tactis were correctly use, poeple were gunning for "Assault weapons" and extended magazines after sandyhook.

turns out Adam lanza did not use the assault weapon instead he used four hand guns with regular sized magazines.

Things like the assault weapons ban are ideas people propose when they are emotional and have not taken the time to fully gather the facts.

[Khadgar]

I think their delaying tactis were correctly use, poeple were gunning for "Assault weapons" and extended magazines after sandyhook.

turns out Adam lanza did not use the assault weapon instead he used four hand guns with regular sized magazines.

Things like the assault weapons ban are ideas people propose when they are emotional and have not taken the time to fully gather the facts.

Makes a great talking point, "More people are killed by hammers than assault weapons".

[Greed and Death]

I think their delaying tactis were correctly use, poeple were gunning for "Assault weapons" and extended magazines after sandyhook.

turns out Adam lanza did not use the assault weapon instead he used four hand guns with regular sized magazines.

Things like the assault weapons ban are ideas people propose when they are emotional and have not taken the time to fully gather the facts.

Makes a great talking point, "More people are killed by hammers than assault weapons".

Or, more people you thought were killed by assault weapons were really killed by pistols.

[Vitaphone Racing]

turns out Adam lanza did not use the assault weapon instead he used four hand guns with regular sized magazines.

not sure if srs.

[Big Jim P]

Here's what I love about humanity:

The NRA is openly arguing that the solution to rampant gun violence is to increase the number of guns, and that the reason so many students are getting shot is because there aren't enough people carrying guns in school...

...and people are asking if the NRA has lost its way.

It is not the guns, but guns in the wrong hands that is the problem.

[Rereumrari]

The original purpose of the NRA was to defend the second amendment right to bear arms, so they definitely have not lost their way.

[Vitaphone Racing]

Here's what I love about humanity:

The NRA is openly arguing that the solution to rampant gun violence is to increase the number of guns, and that the reason so many students are getting shot is because there aren't enough people carrying guns in school...

...and people are asking if the NRA has lost its way.

It is not the guns, but guns in the wrong hands that is the problem.

Having guns in the right hands doesn't prevent guns getting into the wrong hands, that's why regulation is needed and that's what the NRA has consistently opposed.

[Big Jim P]

I think their delaying tactis were correctly use, poeple were gunning for "Assault weapons" and extended magazines after sandyhook.

turns out Adam lanza did not use the assault weapon instead he used four hand guns with regular sized magazines.

Things like the assault weapons ban are ideas people propose when they are emotional and have not taken the time to fully gather the facts.

Regular sized magazine? Do you mean the full capacity ones, or the limited, 10 round ones?

[Big Jim P]

It is not the guns, but guns in the wrong hands that is the problem.

Having guns in the right hands doesn't prevent guns getting into the wrong hands, that's why regulation is needed and that's what the NRA has consistently opposed.

Nothing prevent guns getting into the wrong hands. That is why we need more in the right hands.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

I'd say yes, it values people's rights to own a gun over those lives that continue to be lost by those same weapons.

[Big Jim P]

The original purpose of the NRA was to defend the second amendment right to bear arms, so they definitely have not lost their way.

Honestly, it seems to me that they let their earlier focus on safety (covering the responsibility half of the right to bear arms) slip away.

[Vitaphone Racing]

Having guns in the right hands doesn't prevent guns getting into the wrong hands, that's why regulation is needed and that's what the NRA has consistently opposed.

Nothing prevent guns getting into the wrong hands.

I disagree. After the introduction of post-Port Arthur gun regulations in Australia, gun crime plummeted.

That is why we need more in the right hands.

So you want to minimize the death toll rather than work to reduce the risk of occurence?

The US has experienced more school shootings in the last three years than Europe, Canada, Asia and South American combined have since 2000. The US seems to be the only place in the world where such events are prolific.