Ruger
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Eye95 - it is meant to be provocative. It is meant to get people's attention.
Think outside the box. Look at some of the recent actions of the NRA. I don't trust them. They're in a great position to screw over a large number of gun owners across the country if they so choose. If a national gun registry ever came to pass, I don't know that I trust the NRA to not hand over their member lists to the Feds - hence the comparison.
I don't mean to be disrespectful to Jews.
Just created this at Vistaprint. Thinking about ordering a few. One for me, and a few for others who see that the NRA is nothing more than a "union" that does what unions do best - look out for themselves first, and their member's interests later.
What do you guys think?
All right. I'm scrapping it. Even though they did donate $4950 to Harry Reid's re-election fund http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000082
I was especially angry with them when I designed that, after having found the evidence of their donation, and then when I asked the NRA about it they said that they are not endorsing Reid - they said that is a contribution & not an endorsement (sounds like a bunch of doublespeak to me). Be that as it may...
@ Ruby: As for the "come down off your high-horse" remark.... There's no need to make a personal attack against me. You gave the necessary feedback about the bumper sticker, and after taking your feedback into consideration along with others, I have altered my course of action. Insults, veiled or otherwise, are not welcome or necessary.
I was looking for feedback on an idea, which I am now not going to implement. After having cooled down a bit, and seeing the reaction from folks here, I realize that this probably isn't the best thing to stick on my vehicle.
Thank you to everyone for your valuable feedback. (well, except Ruby, perhaps)
http://www.ncteaparty.com/2010/07/grnc_vs_nra_2/
Also, I must cite the National Rifle Association's actions regarding the "Disclose" act.
Here is how it pertains to OC: If the NRA, via their backroom deals, bamboozles their own constituency into helping to elect politicians who are not truly pro-2A (as the NRA would sometimes have us believe - read the linked article) then we are left with elected officials who are not truly pro-2A, let alone pro-OC.
PS - Doug - How long would it have taken you to actually LOOK at the sticker. I figured that you of all people would have liked it
I think the sticker is disgusting.
Not because it bashes the NRA. I really don't care one way or the other.
I think it is disgusting because it diminishes the horrors committed by the Nazis and the Judenrat who were forced by the Nazis to betray other Jews--typically resulting in the deaths of these Jews.
I really hope you reconsider putting this sticker on your car.
SNIP You may not mean to be, but you are. Deliberately being provocative is no excuse for being so.
You are welcome. I hope you don't think that I was too harsh in my criticism. It was not directed at you.
Thank you for scrapping the sticker. I understand your idea behind the analogy.
The irony here is that some posters would say that my (and others') free speech regarding your free speech that helped change your mind was somehow a restriction on your freedom. However, I think this thread is the perfect illustration of free speech and how it is used to change the ideas of others sans force.
Again, thank you.
Wait a minute, are you trying to say that one could use their free speech to advocate that someone or some group not do something, while still supporting their right to do so??? You mean that just because you advised him not to use the sticker (it was removed before I saw it) you weren't saying that he didn't have the right to?
I made the comment about coming down off your high horse for your negative post concerning the NRA. That post of yours WAS an attack and was removed by the moderators. I was upset because you seem to think that you are so much better than the NRA and the fact that you have gun rights today is probably due to the work they have done in the past, so there was no need for you to put them down.