Cuomo vs NRA

[Nomad]

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/08/jenn-jacques/cuomo-targets-nra/

Thats a bit scary in and of itself , now it’s spreading to ranges and local Rod and Gun clubs . If you’re not active in protecting your gun rights perhaps you’ll think about it .

[steve863]

Giving money to the NRA will not solve the Cuomo problem that gun owners in this state have.  The NRA has not been very effective here, just look at our gun laws compared to other states.  Electing his sorry a$$ out of office this November would be much more preferable.  He could be kicked out in less than 3 months if everyone (most especially the upstate folks) get to the booths to vote him out!

[Rattler]

The NRA isn't very effective in any state where most of it's gun owners are not NRA members.  Numbers scare politicians and political parties.  Members are highly informed.  That makes them want to vote and vote the right way.   That's how NRA membership protects gun rights.

NRA money is needed to fight legal battles that arise, like the SAFE Act, because elected hacks feel they can attack gun rights when most gun owners won't put forth the minimum commitment to protect their gun rights.  Many still vote for politicians that attack gun rights because they have no information making them aware of the issues.

If you are a NY gun owner, but not an NRA member, please read this post twice.

[Marion]

Easy pay life member here. Or I guess I'll be a full fledged life member when I pay off the whole balance

You Can't Beat My Meat!!!

[Nomad]

It'll be interesting to see how the Fudds all feel now that he’s getting local Rod and Gun clubs shut down . 

I agree he’s got to , but NRA memebers  vote at a very high percentage , they’re informed and motivated , the average non member gun owner tends not to see the end game ,is poorly informed and the result is they don’t show up as much at the voting booth . Yes NY is a hard state for gun rights ,due to NYC and a couple other small pockets . We also started out in a hole, the Sullivan Act came about when , the 1,930s or so ? the NRA didn’t really become politically active till 40 years later .

How many of those guys even know Cuomo’s current strong arming of insurance companies that cover the NRA, NY ranges, Rod and Gun clubs and so forth ?

[Rattler]

I have heard NY gun owners tell me the NRA is too far right and extremist for them to support.  They say they are embarrassed by the NRA.  That just tightens my jaw.  My only response is they no nothing of which they speak.  They are getting their info from the main stream media propaganda machine and are swallowing all of it.  I wonder if they will continue to believe it now.

[Rattler]

Here's a great analysis of the Cuomo/NRA situation.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/57617-why-we-should-oppose-andrew-cuomo

Indeed, the silver lining in the cloud is that this pattern of abuse, combined with the IRS scandal and other government malfeasance, will only convince many more Americans that a tyrannical government is possible, especially if people like Cuomo and Murphy are in charge. Perhaps that will rally voters to stand for Liberty.

 

Edited August 13, 2018 by Rattler

[b3h]

No NRA Members Need Apply

Like most people, we understand that educational institutions and staff tend to lean left. The degree and intensity of the bend varies across universities, but a leftward orientation is actually expected today.

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We’re aware that some – perhaps even many – academics look upon the NRA and gun owners with disdain. We always hoped this didn’t extend to the individual level, that the disdain was limited to the aggregate, and that personal interactions could be open-minded or – gasp! – even cordial.

The thought that academics would consider NRA members the bottom of the proverbial barrel never occurred to us. We never imagined that more college professors would be comfortable with an avowed communist than with an NRA member. It sounds like a joke, like an appeal to extremes to call attention to the absurd, but that’s precisely what a new study has discovered. A sociology professor at the University of North Texas found that political biases in academia peak with NRA members.

Professor George Yancey wanted to investigate possible hiring discrimination in higher education. He asked professors across the country how their support for a job applicant would change if they knew the applicant was a member of certain groups. Of all the groups Yancey tested, “NRA membership was ranked as the most likely to hurt an aspiring professor’s chances of getting hired.”

NRA membership was more damaging than being a Republican, a Libertarian, a vegetarian, a member of the ACLU, or a member of the Green Party. NRA membership is considered more damaging than being a communist.

Overall, more than two in five professors say a person’s membership in the NRA would “‘damage’ an applicant’s chances of getting hired.” Yancey suspects that, “academics envision individuals in the NRA as being on the far right.” Yancey also found that “meat hunters, evangelicals, and fundamentalists also are less likely to be hired.”

Imagine that. Being an actual, admitted communist – who proudly acknowledges being as far left as left can go – is less harmful to one’s career prospects than being an NRA member.

We’ve heard about high school teachers kicking students out of class for wearing NRA shirts. We’ve heard politicians disparage this association and its membership. But to hear that college professors would rather work with a communist than an NRA member is just sad. We found two takeaways from this: first, an inability to explain one’s adherence to a political and economic ideology with an absolute perfect failure rate probably doesn’t matter in academia and, two, academia is somehow even more out of touch with America than any of us thought.

Remember that the next time “academics” release a “study” on “gun violence.”

 

[Rattler]

It's obvious leftist professors would hate America's oldest civil rights organization, that defends individual rights and the Constitution.  They are against both of those things, favoring collectivism and totalitarian control.  This just proves NRA membership is most effective against leftist tyranny.  Why else would they find it to be so much of a demon?