Got my monthly copy of American Rifleman yesterday. Right on the front cover, it advertises what an important election this is, and that you’ve got to vote for your freedom (something along those lines). Also on the front cover, it gives you state and district-specific candidate information, telling you who your pro-gun, pro-freedom candidate is (i.e. who you should vote for if you want to keep your guns). For my congressional district, they listed Eric Cantor (the Republican incumbent and minority whip). There was NO mention of Floyd Bayne, who is on the ballot as the Independent candidate.
Obviously, unless you’re from around here, you’re not going to know anything about Bayne. He is, BY FAR, the most constitutionally conservative candidate of the three (D, R, & I) and extremely pro gun. It’s people like him that have allegiance to the Constitution and the people he represents that will change our country, not party-first, lip-servicing, tarp-voting, lying pieces of crap like Cantor. The career politician refuses to hold town hall meetings, holds rallies on anti-gun grounds, and refused to attend the candidate debate in our district because, “he’s too busy trying to get people back to work.”
Again, the NRA can suck my @$$. I won’t deny that they have done good for our gun rights, but it’s clear to me that they are simply part of the problem. The government is too big, and the lobbies are way too powerful. The NRA has massive influence, and they are using that influence to ignore and pass over a candidate who is more in line with their supposed views on guns than the man they listed on the cover of their magazine. It’s not like I don’t see enough massive “CANTOR” signs when driving around from people who have their heads way too far up the @$$ of an elephant to see what’s going on.
Yep, that’s the problem. The politicians, lobbies and media have sucked all the heads of all the people up the @$$ of an elephant or donkey.
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I am a member of SCI and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. I would NEVER be a member of the NRA. They truly don't have our freedoms in mind. I think they are a for profit organization that has an agenda to suck people in to joining for all of the wrong reasons.
The shooting range I used to belong to required NRA membership because they used the NRA insurance program, which only insures members, which ensures more members.
I like the GOA
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7.62: The NRA is a 2nd Amendment only organization. Has Cantor done ANYTHING to earn a disapproval with regard to 2nd Amendment? NRA has him A-rated. If he's got a record of pro-gun votes vs. your independent guy who has no record but is simply saying the right things, then they'll go with the incumbent with the proven track record.
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Voted YES on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers. (Oct 2005)
Voted YES on prohibiting suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse. (Apr 2003)
No lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jan 2001)
Rated A by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights voting record. (Dec 2003)
Ban gun registration & trigger lock law in Washington DC. (Mar 2007)
Allow reloading spent military small arms ammunition. (Apr 2009)
As for TARP, you do know that most of that money has been paid back and it is anticipated that the government will ultimately reap an 8% return on that deal, right? Unlike the Stimulus Bill for "shovel ready projects" that the lying sack of sh^& in the White House now says never existed, and which was really just a bunch of payoffs to organizations like SEIU and ACORN.
In my district, the dem on the ticket gets an A+ from the NRA, the Republican gets an A. The dem in the incumbent, with a record--like IPSC said. I'm glad to have a choice in that matter at least.
The dem is running on Pro-gun, Anti-abortion, Anti-tax, basically Anti-bho.....but he recently had bill clinton stumping for him. Makes absolutely no sense to me--comes across as very hypocritical. He sounds like a conservative Republican...wish I could believe he's as conservative as he says. If he is, I don't understand why he's on the dem ticket.
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
The NRA is the only organization big enough to make any difference lobbying for our gun rights. If you don't want to be a part of the solution then don't spend your money and be part of the problem. In my area they are endorsing Ron Kind who is a liberal piece of garbage but he has voted PRO GUN whenever he could. His conservative opponent also received an A. Just as some other guys have said they only care about how they will vote on the 2nd ammendment. Vote how you want. That's your right!!
Kind of like the rights of Mulsim Americans to build a cultural center 2 1/2 blocks from ground zero. Improving a neighborhood that is full of strip joints.
Of course the right winger who SAY they are all about the constituion want to impose their ideas and eliminate the rights of those americans. If it isn't some christian shoving his ideals down my throat it is the NRA.
Nobody here has said they don't have a "right" to do it... only that it is stupid and inconsiderate to build it there. Kinda like the Air Force has never bought land to build a memorial to the crew of the Enola Gay in Hiroshima...
The building of a mosque in that location is nothing more than a "marking of turf." It may be legal, but that doesn't make it right...
7.62: The NRA is a 2nd Amendment only organization. Has Cantor done ANYTHING to earn a disapproval with regard to 2nd Amendment? NRA has him A-rated. If he's got a record of pro-gun votes vs. your independent guy who has no record but is simply saying the right things, then they'll go with the incumbent with the proven track record.
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As for TARP, you do know that most of that money has been paid back and it is anticipated that the government will ultimately reap an 8% return on that deal, right?
Actually, if you read my post, he HAS. In fact, the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), Virginia's strongest pro-gun lobby, has PROTESTED Cantor more than once. I guess the NRA missed that.
So, are you telling me that if there was an anti-gun incumbent running, the NRA would just have a blank space on their front cover for the recipients in that district? Please.
Re: TARP - Ah, so that makes something blatantly unconstitutional okay then, eh? I didn't know the gov't was there to make a profit. Must be in the fine print.
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"Well if it ain't loaded and c0cked, it don't shoot." -Rooster Cogburn
The NRA is the only organization big enough to make any difference lobbying for our gun rights. If you don't want to be a part of the solution then don't spend your money and be part of the problem. In my area they are endorsing Ron Kind who is a liberal piece of garbage but he has voted PRO GUN whenever he could. His conservative opponent also received an A. Just as some other guys have said they only care about how they will vote on the 2nd ammendment. Vote how you want. That's your right!!
Ah, I see...so being a member of the GOA makes me part of the problem?? It's that kind of thinking that has this nation locked into a two party system of enslavement.
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"Well if it ain't loaded and c0cked, it don't shoot." -Rooster Cogburn
The NRA Can Suck My @$$
