Anyone else get their NRA membership invitation in the mail today?

[Ilsa]

What lovely and engaging message should I send them in their prepaid return envelope? I'd like to keep it simple. Considering multiple index cards with "Fucking Lobbyists" printed all over them.

[cleanhippie]

1. What exactly, are your reasons for your aversion and hostility toward the NRA?

Do you feel this way about all special interest groups or just the NRA and why?

[HipChick]

10. NRA headquarters are in the heart of a liberal community

Gets my grits everytime I have to drive pass it in the morning..

[cleanhippie]

13. So I will pose the same question to you.

What are your reasons for your dislike of the NRA?

[HipChick]

25. My...That's quite an assumption..

In fact, they have indoor ranges and private shooting instructors in the facility..but they won't give me a discount for being a local resident..so I have to go to the shooting range on the other side of town..

[cleanhippie]

29. A valid assumption, given the info I had until your last post.

ow that I know more, can I assume you LIKE the NRA, but are just mad they do not give you a "locals" discount" at the range?

By clarifying your position, you negate the need to assume on my part.

[applegrove]

32. NRA lies, people die.

[cleanhippie]

33. Can you support that assertion with any evidence or data, or did you just make that up?

It sounds really cool, but I feel I have heard it somewhere before with something else substituted for "NRA".

Care to back up your baseless assertion with anything resembling a fact?

[virgogal]

2. Why waste your time? Just mail back the empty envelope.

[blondeatlast]

21. With a check for $0.10. nt

[jody]

3. Consider joining ACLU & NRA. You would then support ALL inalienable rights since the NRA supports

the Second Amendment and ACLU supports all the others, excluding the 2nd.

[Mojorabbit]

23. This is what my husband does. nt

[gratuitous]

4. If I were a mean person

I'd give serious consideration to wrapping their envelope around a brick and dropping it in a mail box somewhere. But you (and maybe I) are far too fine a person to do any such thing. Perhaps just a friendly note that says, "Boy, did you rattle the wrong cage. Fetch off."

[Cid_B]

5. Nope renewed last month...

Probably pick up the life time in the next year or two...

Appreciate the reminder though...

[malaise]

6. How about

Fuck you and your guns too

[doc03]

7. I just make them pay the postage on an empty envelope n/t

[xchrom]

8. You go! I'd settle for 'Fuck You!' nt

[cleanhippie]

14. Why?

Why do you dislike the NRA so much?

[xchrom]

17. Cause we don't all see 2a the same way. Nt

[cleanhippie]

31. That's fine, to not see it the same way, but...

on what do you base your not seeing the 2A the same way? IF it can be show to you that your views on the subject may be misguided, are you open to having your mind changed?

[spanone]

9. send them a copy of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

they spent a shitload of the money they want from you fighting federal background checks for firearm purchases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. What? No slick prizes or handouts to entice you?

Unbelievable.....what has this country come to?

[aikoaiko]

12. Not me. I'm paid up for the next three years.

Good luck with your agenda.

[xchrom]

18. And I donate to the Brady campaign. Nt

[aikoaiko]

30. You need to give more because they ran at a deficit last year

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5426

Their days are marked because they are terrible at their purported mission --- reducing gun violence. Instead they keep trying to keep guns out of the hands of law abiding folks.

Please, give more to your 2 out of 4 star charity.

[onehandle]

15. Just because they worked tirelessly to keep Obama from being elected?

And will do so again next year?

How is that lobbying?

:sarcasm:

[Ozymanithrax]

16. I don't subscribe to right wing Conservative asshole lobbyists...

who rewrite history to justify their beliefs. Clearly, they have not bought my name on a mailing list.

[Arkana]

19. Do you have a dog?

If so, find a pile of its best work, pack that up in an envelope, and mail that back to the NRA with "DOG BALLS" written on the membership forms.

If you do not have a dog, use a friend's dog.

[mr_liberal]

20. I would send them money, but

Id feel like Im supporting politicians that don't care about other rights (abortion, free speech, separation of chruch state...). I don't want to support right wing politicians, but I do think gun rights are very important.

Maybe people on the left should stop trying to take aways peoples gun rights? Then the NRA wouldn't exist, or would have less influence. All it would take is being liberal on all the Bill of Rights, including the 2nd. Just be consistent.

[jpak]

22. They suck

yup

[LanternWaste]

24. I did, and it came in the nick of time...

I used it to wipe some dog poo off my left shoe before I walked inside.

[badtoworse]

26. Infantile behavior, but whatever...

I strongly back RKBA and have been a member for at least 20 years. There is no organization that has done more to protect our 2nd Amendment rights than the NRA - they are very effective.

[Obamanaut]

27. Why would one want to send cards with that printing on them?

"...Considering multiple index cards with "Fucking Lobbyists" printed all over them...."

There are multitudes of lobbyists for multitudes of groups: UAW, AFL-CIO, teachers' unions, etc.

[madokie]

28. Write refused, return to sender on the envelope without opening it

that way they have to pay the same postage that you or I would have to pay to mail that same letter not the lower price they negotiate for with the return envelope.
On the last one I got I did just that and included "Take me off your mailing list while you're at it because I want nothing to do with the nra." I haven't gotten another solicitation from them since.

Add: you can do that with any of the junk mail you get and after a time or two of paying full price for postage to get their mail back they quit sending you shit.