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Interesting line about the NRA on TV's West Wing

steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
edited December 2003 in General Discussion
If youve watched the show its about a democratic run White House. On this show a election strategist says he doesn't understand why the NRA is such a problem. They only have 3 million members, I would recruit 4 million people who are against guns to join the NRA. At the next board meeting we vote ourselves into the leadership and then vote to disband. I know this is pretty farfetched,(its a TV show). But it seems to me you could damage an organization this way. What do you think.
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  • old06old06 Member Posts: 577 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In this day and age you never know [V][:(][V]

    psalms 16
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anything is possible, but that senario is highly unlikely. To win a seat on the board of Directors you would need at least 40,000-50,000 votes...that's votes by members who are Life, benefactor, etc. Figure each one of those votes requires a $750 membership...that's 30 to 40 million dollars just to put up a fight for board seats, not to mention getting elected as an officer....this all hinges on the fact you made it past the nominating committee phase.

    Whoever the mental midget was that wrote script for the TV show, knows about as much concerning the NRA as they do about the second Amendment.
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  • tr foxtr fox Member Posts: 13,856
    edited November -1
    Unlikely because of the structure of the NRA. When running for a board of director's seat, you have to provide a personal profile which tells what you have done (or not done) for gun rights in your lifetime. So if a canadidate's resume' showed nothing for gun rights or even action against gun rights or even a giant blank spot of what they have been doing, they would not get voted in.

    When guns were invented everything changed. For the first time in the history of the world a frail woman had a chance to sucessfully defend herself and home. My dream is that one of the anti-gun nuts will need a gun for defense and be unable to have one because of their own actions.
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  • TwoDogsTwoDogs Member Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They need to get out of some of the debt ($100MIL)
    they have gotten into.
    If not, any possible "democratic infiltration" could become a moot point.
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  • Ruger22Ruger22 Member Posts: 385 ✭
    edited November -1
    Martin Sheen is a liberal anti gun nutcase and a traitor to the Republic.

    Brian Ostro.
    member: NRA,RFC, John Birch Society, American Numismatic Association.

    Famous line from the movie Tombstone with Val Kilmer:
    Bandit to Doc Halliday:"You're just a drunk piano player, you're so drunk , you're probably seeing double!"
    Doc Halliday: "I've got two guns, one for each of you! "
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Steve: The membership of this club has voted to fine you $50,000 for watching such liberal Hollywood tripe as "West Wing." You are also ordered to immediately surrender all your firearms to the Gunbroker Clerk of Confiscated Property, brother Lowrider.

    Lord Lowrider the Loquacious.

    Member:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets

    She was only a fisherman's daughter,
    But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider...too funny! Beach
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  • kissgoodnightkissgoodnight Member Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And you watch that POS!
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  • poshposh Member Posts: 360 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    As usual the liberal solution wouldn't work. My recollection is that you have to be a member for 5 years to become a "voting" member. It would require liberals the dues for about 3-4 million members for 5 years. What's that more than $500 million? Yep. Typical liberal solution.
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