Reply #2: "the NRA" [View All]

[iverglas]

Would you like to see the reciprocating relationship between Democrats and the nra improve to the point where the nra can back to being about gun safety and conservation, rather than being destroyers of Democrats and Democratic core principals?

If the NRA is about anything poltical at all, isn't it violating its tax status?

The NRA's PAC, on the other hand, and the NRA-ILA, its political agitation wing, those are different matters. Are those what you're talking about? They have nothing to do with gun safety or conservation, unless they happen to take some sort of political stand relating to one of those, or lobby in relation to them. As I understand it.

Hmm. Does wiki have it right?

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

The National Rifle Association, or NRA, is a non-profit group dedicated to the protection of the Second Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights and the promotion of firearm ownership rights, marksmanship, firearm safety, and the protection of hunting and self-defense in the United States.

I don't actually see anything looking like a mission statement at the NRA website. This:

While widely recognized today as a major political force and as America's foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in the world.

Headlines at nra.org today:

RNS POSTS NEW WEB VIDEO: "OBAMA AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT" ... TENN. GOP TAKES AIM AT MICHELLE OBAMA <gotta love those gun metaphors> ... MCCAIN SAYS CLINTON AND OBAMA THREATEN GUN RIGHTS ...

Since the NRA never was JUST "about gun safety and conservation", how might you go about persuading it to become just about those things? Since its major focus seems to be about the second amendment and "firearms ownership rights", and large numbers of people don't appear to agree with its interpretation of either of those things, which side here is going to abandon its positions in order to achieve a state of peace and love?

If you're looking for a meeting of minds, which part of right field were you thinking of holding it in?