Zing!
Nice one, lol
I find this hard to believe. The NRA is a lobbying organization. It exists to sway public opinion towards its position; that’s the way a united minority affects political issues. So it doesn’t matter how devoted its base is if it sacrifices the support of the majority of people.
That may be what we think a lobbying organization should do, but that doesn’t seem to be how they work. I can’t remember the last time I saw any NRA outreach. It’s all been preaching to the choir and energizing their base. They attacked child victims, for goodness sake.
They already don’t have the majority of the country behind them. What they do have is a very energized base which can, due to how close our elections are now, easily sway things one way or the other. What they do rather than strengthen their own side is weaken the other side by putting them on the defensive, making gun control advocates have to prove they don’t want to “take away all your guns” and bullshit like that.
It is my belief that, when you have power, you act differently than when you are trying to gain power. Right now, they think they can just energize their base and win, and so that is what they do.
But neither is what the president of an organization is supposed to do. The president actually runs things. He decides strategy (deciding between that given by strategists, of course) He has an organization to run. If he’s free enough to actually do the fundraising rather than delegate it, then when does he have time to actually do the job of a president?
That’s how a sensible, sane, reason-driven, reality-based organization operates, yes. But it’s not how one driven by quasi-religious fervor, with leaders having a personal interest in increasing the group’s income, operates.
that’s not a law or anything. Wayne LaPierre has been pretty much running the organization for a long time, and will apparently continue to do so. I don’t see this as any significant change other than riling up a handful of people.
I was going to say.
IIRC, isn’t Israel’s president a guy who speaks at ceremonies and hands out awards and otherwise does head-of-state stuff without actually being the Prime Minister?
I seriously doubt if choosing Oliver North as their president is going to do anything to cut support among the majority of Americans. If the rest of the US hated Oliver North as much as the SDMB does, it would, but they don’t.
That’s why the notion that they are trolling by picking North is so ridiculous.
An organization to which you don’t belong, which you don’t support, whose goals you don’t share, is picking someone you don’t like to help them do things you don’t want them to do. Those bastages! They are doing it just to piss you off!
Regards,
Shodan
Dana Loesch comes out against feminism, says only guns can empower women.
IMO if the United States has another civil war it will be fought between the NRA and the legitimate army.
I can’t say I’d regret a preemptive strike by the army. 
Uh…that seems unlikely.
The active duty, reserve, and Guard military overlaps too much with the NRA’s membership.
Given that the question assumes it’s a real possibility: To whom have they sworn oaths?
That matters to them?
It’s your fantasy; you tell us.
They swear oaths to protect this country. Many of them interpret that as meaning protecting what they view as one of the most important freedoms of this country, a core pillar if it, if you will.
I am not making any value judgment on this perspective, I’m simply stating it for what it is.
Well, here is the one I took:
That first line is the one that would matter to the NRA overlappers. They believe that the Supreme Court was right and that the 2nd Amendment applies to the People. An order telling them to confiscate firearms, or declare war on the NRA due to their support of that right, could be seen as an illegal order that is in violation of the Constitution.
If we are playing around with some Turner Diaries nonsense.
Its not “gold fringe on the flag” crazy. Maybe sovereign county sheriff crazy. Middlin’ batshit.
Ten-year old article:
I don’t think you are going to get the military coming after the right wing NRA.
That’s a pretty significant exception. Women and minority members make up about forty percent of the officer corps.
I’m aware that the majority of the US forces are primarily there because they get to kill and torture people, especially foreigners and whoever else they don’t approve of, without consequences. I just figured there might be enough discipline that orders might be obeyed.