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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I don't own a firearm but I do support 2A, and I support the responsible ownership of firearms by responsible owners.
I also supported the NRA until 1993 when they lobbied for the Dickey amendment, which prohibits the CDC from using its funds to research gun violence in the USA.
I've been against the NRA ever since. The "organization" is nothing more than a very profitable lobby group now. And apparently a corrupt one that has put membership money into the pockets of its officers instead of spending it on its own causes. They never should've gotten their non-prof status in the first place. They can re-create themselves if they are dissolved, but their current incarnation is spoiled and unrecoverable, in my opinion.
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Agreed. Good post. I stopped my membership in the 60s when they switched their emphasis from hunting animals and weapons designed for hunting to high margin expensive military style firearms used almost exclusively to KILL HUMANS - in effect hunting HUMANS. I personally would never shoot at a human outline or drawing of a human, even a depiction of a criminal. I would shoot only bulleyes. The NRA also pushed paint ball, which is basically practice for some imagined World War III or an apocalypse - Again it is hunting HUMANS. I also slowly switched to bow hunting which gave longer seasons and more of a woodsman challenge - also more time to walk among nature.