I got a robo call from NRA Uber-douchebagger Wayne LaPierre this AM

[jpak]

He told me that the UN 'n "I-ran" 'n Chinee 'n No'th Ko-rea and OBAMA were gonna "take way every pistol, and rifle and shotgun that I owned" and "rip the (holy) Second Amendment from the Constitution" and asked me to help him in this fight.

I offered the live moran at the end of the call to send $100 - in Confederate money.

and told him to tell L'il Wayne and Rick Perry to kiss my ass.

yup

[Tippy]

1. I got one two days ago....He was blaming the UN then saying they were going to take our guns away

Had a poll asking if I supported the UN taking guns from US citizens....

[Remmah2]

2. How did you get on the call list? nt

nt

[ileus]

3. The NRA called me wanting to know if I supported pipe bomb bans

[rrneck]

4. When people cold call me

I say sure, tell me all about it. Then I very quietly lay the phone down and walk away.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Good for you. I'll tell him the same when my call comes.

...and thank him for the junky trinkets the NRA sends out, too.

[iverglas]

9. it sounds like an excellent script

Somebody should post it in GD so others are prepared ... make it a movement. ;)

Sadly, I do not get calls from the NRA.

I did once get a plastic card in the mail saying I was a member of some elite Conservative Party donor group. Presumably because I was a lawyer and they thought I'd just neglected to do my bit and all I needed was a little nudge to get embarrassed and cough up.

[Kennah]

11. Did you want their number so you get on their calling list?

[iverglas]

15. sadly, they cannot take my money

so I doubt they would want to be calling me.

www.nra-ila.org

Contributions to NRA-ILA are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for Federal Income tax purposes.

Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America.

I dunno, maybe foreigners can give money to lobby groups in the US. I wouldn't want to interfere in the electoral/governmental process, myself.

[Kennah]

19. Well, that's a whole other subject dealing with the abominable Citizens United decision

[AtheistCrusader]

6. This is the side of the NRA that shouldn't exist at all.

It was not the original founded purpose of the organization. It's become political, and horrendous in tactics. Why I am not a member, and probably never will be.

The scaremongering they engage in is just awful.

[Kennah]

10. Just curious, but do you know the original founding purpose of the NRA?

It had absolutely nothing to do with hunting or target shooting.

[iverglas]

12. do you assume everyone is an idiot?

Just in case, better give 'em a pop quiz ...

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[AtheistCrusader]

14. Of course.

It also had nothing to do with political fearmongering.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Getting Republicans elected?

:shrug:

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Sarcasm, right?

ihope i hopeihope

[Kennah]

18. In a way, yes

The NRA was formed by Union military officers in 1871. General Burnside was the first President. George Wingate was the first Secretary.

During the American Civil War, the Union got the shit shot out of them by the Confederacy, and there was concern that perhaps some fighting for the Confederacy had neither received word of Lee's surrender nor accepted it. In the event there was a Second American Civil War, they wanted Union troops to be able to hit the broad side of a barn, or better.

There were apparently attempts by Confederate military officers to run for NRA offices and take over the organization into the late 1800s. The Union military officers in charge of the NRA successfully resisted this.

In a sense, one could say that the NRA was the original militia training ground. The Creedmore range was constructed, more ranges with long range shooting out to a 1,000 yards were built, and high power rifle shooting competitions that evolved into current military marksmanship. This had nothing to do with hunting and everything to do with "a tolerable expertness in military movements" as stated in Federalist Paper #29.

Republicans in 1871 are quite a bit different from Republicans today. It is easy to understand the Republican origins of the NRA persisting for some time as the South was dominated by the Democratic Party which was in many cases loyal to the KKK--another significant group to evolve out of the Civil War, formed by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

The South remained opposed to gun rights, including concealed carry, for a long time. In 1986, just two of the ten Right To Carry states were in the South--Alabama and Georgia. Alabama is technically a May Issue state but in practice is said to be Shall Issue. I wonder if this is demographically skewed along racial lines, even today. I believe the language of the law in Georgia changed around 1989, and before that some say it was a discretionary system that discriminated, perhaps still along racial lines.

I find the current crop of Republicans so corrupted by corporations that no thinking person could really believe that the GOP is synonymous with gun rights. The last thing multinational corporations and foreign governments would EVER want was a well armed populace.

[AtheistCrusader]

23. Pre-dixiecrat absorption.

"Republicans in 1871 are quite a bit different from Republicans today."

Not many of their candidates went anywhere, but the dixiecrat voters jumped from their breakaway democratic faction, to republican candidates, and the nature of the republican party, at least in the south, was significantly altered.

[GreenStormCloud]

22. If not the NRA then some other group would be doing the same thing.

And you would be griping about the GOA or the SAF. The fact is that there are millions of Americans who don't want their gun right curtailed.

[gejohnston]

7. one reason I ditched the land line

no robocalls, pollsters, and telemarketers.

[SteveM]

8. Knowing your opinion of the dehydrated Frenchman, I think this is just.

Hope the call was real early!

[Logical]

20. He and the NRA are right wing tools. I will agree with you on that Jpak!

[GreenStormCloud]

21. I have been a member for many years. How come I never get those calls?

I am feeling left out. I have NEVER been called by the NRA.

[guardian]

24. Me neither

not once. Never been called by the NRA. Does the OP smell fishy? Or is that a dead carp on the floor?

[Remmah2]

25. all right.

Which one of you is making crank calls?

[Union Scribe]

26. That wasn't a robo-call

He reads your shit on DU and thought it'd be funny to hit you up.