Personal Opinion
California – -(AmmoLand.com)- Wayne Lapierre has left the NRA impotent and broke. We are on our own.
It’s not about money, its about focus and pulling gun owners together. When the NRA/ILA is laying off staff because all of the NRA”s resources are going to lawyers to fight with ex-vendors, then the NRA lacks the internal resources to rally gun owns to defend the 2nd.
We cannot cry over spilled milk, but the NRA’s inability to back pro-gun candidates in 2018 and the loss in Virginia is costing us our rights. Certainly, gun owners in Virginia (Or Eastern California as they will now be known) will feel the pinch.
Over the next three months, we will ask each of you to step up. There will be articles on how to form a local program. What groups we like for local political support. I know in my heart we can turn this around. In order to do that, however, we need to reach out to other gun owners, explain to them what is at risk.
So why does outreach matter, and what are the numbers that make it important.
There are 120,000,000 gun owners in the U.S., So the 1st question is, how do we know that? Well, some States register gun owners, and from that registration, we can see the expansive growth in the number of gun owners over the past 20 years. You cannot trust the poling on this as many gun owners will lie when poled. The number is between 100 million and 140 million if you ever want to do the math. We use 120,000,000 gun owners as a most likely estimate. It may be a bit higher.
No Democrat running for President has ever won an election if they ran on gun confiscation.
Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee when he called for a ban on handguns. Hillary lost because she called for a gun buyback. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ran as either pro-gun or neutral on guns. This is why Joe Biden has backtracked on his call for a gun ban.
At a fund-raiser in Atlanta Bill Clinton said “,Now, you know, I once had a lifetime membership in the NRA. I’ve even got my jacket there. I’m sure they revoked it somewhere…”
Gun owners come from all races and political boundaries.
There are more gun owners than there are Republicans, if we get just 3% more to show up for elections, we’ll have the votes to protect our rights. The fastest-growing groups of gun owners are women and minorities.
So organizing gun owners to get out ad vote is NOT a partisan thing. It is not about Democrat or Republican. What it is about is protecting our rights.
So stand up and get active. In coming articles, we will help show you how to organize and how to fight. AmmoLand News and others like them will provide you the information to protect the 2nd Amendment for you and for generations to come. Stay connected, subscribe, and follow. Stay in the fight.
About Don McDougall
Don McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of the NRA” committee. If he’s not at the range, you will find him setting the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
Wayne LaPierre is the NRA’s “Bernie Madoff”.
“The buck stops with Mr. LaPierre, CEO and Executive Vice President of the NRA, and he is ultimately responsible for the most recent negative optics and financial crisis facing the NRA.
Members of the NRA demand leadership change, accountability, and transparency; specifically, the following:
Wayne LaPierre and the NRA Officers, Executive Directors, Managing Directors resign immediately, including Josh Powell.”
https://helpsavethenra.com/articles-related-to-whats-going-on-at-the-nra-aug-2019/
ARIZONA CITIZENS DEFENSE LEAGUE
https://www.azcdl.org/index.html
Want money, get rid of LaPierre? Why would anybody give money to an organization that is contaminated with a disease? Get rid of the disease and make the organization healthy.
Bottom line is that LaPierre is still running the NRA and refused to leave his cash cow. Until he’s gone anyone continuing to support the NRA is nothing but a shill for and a co-conspirator and accessory to LaPierre and his backer.
The NRA is to gun owners, what AARP has become to senior citizens: they could care less about you. Drop the initial emotion of “But the NRA is my baby!” and investigate! Once you do, you will want to burn all your NRA hats and t-shirts. Quit supporting what has become corrupt, because it is. If you think the NRA is busy supporting your cause, then you have failed to look past what is their conspicuous glamor, and will soon be going down with the ship only, with an “I told you so!” tattooed to your sinking ass. Wayne Lapierre… Read more »
OR….. would they just refuse to count that three percent, due to chads hanging, or any of a hundred other lame excuses? Or would they just go down to skid row and buy another three percent with cigarettes and booze? Or just stuff the ballot boxes with another three percent of votes from dead people? Or a combination of all of these techniques?
ALL of which BOTH political parties have been caught at multiple times, btw….
I always lie when poled.