About LaPierre's claim of "4 million members" in the NRA...

[ehrnst]

Reporters might want to do some fact checking on Wayne LaPierre's claim that the NRA has 4 million members. Former NRA board member David Gross confessed that many NRA Life Members are, well, dead.

"There just isn't that much incentive to go find out when someone passes away," he said. "Now when the cost of maintaining [a dead member] is minimal and when they add to your membership list."

Maybe those "cold dead hands" are only holding their NRA card...

[rustydog]

1. I'm sorry, but who cares? The issue at hand is not the membership of the NRA

It is the NRA siding against victims of homicidal violence.

[ehrnst]

3. I think that he's overstating the number of people that he speaks for. (nt)

[digonswine]

9. Not just that--

if he is touting the membership numbers, he is on the losing end. He represents at most 2% of Americans and has great control over this subject. He should have NO standing-- but he does.

[Downwinder]

2. Get "True the Vote" on that.

[Hoyt]

4. There are millions of free-riders too cheap to pay dues, but supportive of NRA's right

wing agenda.

[ehrnst]

5. "Members" means members. And if he's going to give numbers, he needs to back them up.(nt)

[lastlib]

6. If we ever did create the database of mentally ill people that the NRA claims to want....

...I would demand that Wayne Lapierre's name be the first one entered into it!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Reportedly there are 8000 new memberships a day since the Newtown shooting

No way to verify that at this point

[spanone]

8. so the nra got a 32 minute commercial free commercial today...with no questions allowed

but every news organization in the country was there to report and expose his utter insanity