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Sure for the most part they are except! How can they be sure. A felon with can go to a gun show and pay the $10.00 or so and be a member and no one knows what he actually does in his life,HAS DONE, OR WILL DO. Hell i originally joined at a gun show for $10.00 because i got a NRA hat with the deal.
We don't need new laws other than complete background checks or to ban rifles. We just need stricter enforcement od the laws and more responsible gun owners.
NRA Doesn't stand for NOT RESPONSIBLE for ANYTHING.You have a responsibility to keep your gun from being used improperly.
here, try reading this for a change. also look at the author at the bottom of the piece.
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For Democrats, Is Gun Control Worth The Effort?
by David Hardy | March 25, 2013
In January 1994 – less than a year into President Clinton’s first term – George Stephanopoulos received a memo from Jody Powell. “If there is an area that needs ‘new thinking, ‘rethinking, ‘a different kind of Democrat,’ and all that, crime/gun control is it,” Powell wrote. “As much as I hate to say it, the NRA is effective primarily because it is largely right when it claims that most gun control laws inconvenience and threaten the law-abiding while having little or no impact on violent crime or criminals.”
Would criminals comply, Powell asked, and, if not, can we effective enforce the laws? “If the answer is ‘no’ in both cases,” he continued, “consider whether the benefits are worth making Bob Dole majority leader.”
I let my membership lapse. But not due to any criminal activity, mind you. As a Vietnam era vet, Ted "Poopy" Nugent and I can't belong to the same club.
In regards to Vietnam. I agree with you. In 1971 my lottery # was 88! Hasd i not been 4F since childhood my life sure would have changed. Went for my physical and 6 buddies from high scholl were there. Only heard about two of them that passed the physical. My fried Bob was a POW for 6 months and while they had him they shot his knee caps off. He told me he thought he wasn't coming back. SOME HOW HE GOT RESCUED! WhEn i think of him and then think of Ted the dodger it makes me mad.
There are plenty of polls out there that show between 40-50% US households own guns. Of those, we have maybe 10% ish of gun owning households that are NRA members.
4 million NRA members, plus all other firearm organizations, plus those that dont want to be in any of those groups that might be targeted by the liberal mediea groups.
it is close to 50% of all american households have a legal firearm in them, some have even more than just 1 or 2.
I'll tell you what. Were the counties,cities, and states come down on a person being irresponsible for your gun getting stolen then gun thefts will decline. Or innocent people being shot with a gun left laying around.
Recently in Mo some idiot left his AR-15 and some ammo laying in the back of his SUV at a hotel and it was stolen. He walks scott free and some criminal know has a AR-15. that is irresponsibility. No trigger lock etc on your gun and a kid gets killed around here you will get prosecuted for child endangerment and rightly so.
Let your dog get out and bite people then you will get in trouble. Should be the same for leaving danngerous items out in the public.
I'm no hero. I spent my service deep in the bowels of ships and spent my meager pay in bars ashore. Never heard a shot fired in anger.
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