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I'm a Life Member of the NRA and GOA. I'm also an NRA-certified Firearms Instructor and Range Safety Officer. I was also a delegate to the 2008 Texas Republican Convention. Just to give y'all some idea of where I'm coming from.
I wish the NRA wish stay out of politics and stick to shooting matches and gun safety courses, and leave the lobbying to GOA. Why? Because the GOA takes a
no-compromise approach to the 2d Amendment. I don't want the NRA compromising my rights away. I really wish the NRA would grow a pair and stop compromising and start demanding immediate and complete repeal of all gun laws. They could do it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
(George Bernard Shaw)
Here's one of thethings that bothers me about the NRA: Board Member Joaquin Jackson tells a reporter that citizens should be restricted to five rounds, and 'assault weapons' should be restricted to the police and military, and he is allowed to remain on the Board of Directors, even after the NRA was given a petition from members expressing that this was unacceptable, and demanding his removal:
http://recalljoaquinjackson.blogspot.com/
Joaquin Jackson, the enemy within:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGySNLyACE
"Well, I'm a person that believes in a weapon should never…I personally believe a weapon should never have over a – far as civilian – 5 round capacity. If a hunter, if you're a hunter if you're gonna go hunting with a weapon, you shouldn't need over but one round…"
and
"Well we've talked, we've discussed it you know, but uh this thing about assault weapons has been a kind of a touchy deal, but personally, I think these assault weapons basically need to be in the hands of the military and they need to be in the hands of the police, but uh, as far as assault weapons to a civilian, if you… if you… it's alright if you got that magazine capacity down to five…"
Joaquin Jackson seems to believe that the 2d Amendment has something to do with hunting, and that the police and military are the Only Ones in the room professional enough to handle those weapons. I'd appreciate it if he resigned and never spoke to another reporter. He certainly doesn't represent me.
Where rights (liberty) secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no legislation which would abrogate (abolish) them." - U.S. Supreme Court, Miranda vs Arizonahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?