Interesting words from an NRA board member

[Shawn S]

Here's a link to an interview with an NRA board member Joaquin Jackson who is against rifles holding more than 5 rounds. Hopefully he doesn't convince other board members to share his views.

http://www.klru.org/texasmonthlytalks/archives/jackson/jackson.asp      It is the last video clip on this page.

[Dharmaeye]

Noticed the NRA is becoming useless or dangerous.
Remember the 2nd amendment and support Ron Paul not the NRA.

[Shawn S]

It looks like the interview is from 2005, I guess I should have investigated it better before posting the link. I have no idea wether he is still a board member or not.

[gunman42782]

Noticed the NRA is becoming useless or dangerous.
Remember the 2nd amendment and support Ron Paul not the NRA.

OK, he is one member of a 4 million member organization, and you are gonna use this as an argument not to join the NRA???  Give me a break.  As my main man John Taffin said in the last issue of GUNS magazine, shooters that are not NRA members are parasites feeding off the time and money of the rest of us. 

[jaybet]

I don't know about "parasites", but someone said it best when they called the NRA "Our 800 pound gorilla on capitol hill".
I don't agree with everything they put out and they can be quite shrill about stuff, but they DO get the attention of these knucklehead politicians, and that is important.
I just wish they wouldn't spend my entire yearly dues sending me requests for more money.

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[Bidah]

I would say that he is a bit more than a member as he is on the Board of Directors.  The question is how many other Board members also share his view, and how far up the chain does it go?

-Bidah

[texcaliber]

OK, he is one member of a 4 million member organization, and you are gonna use this as an argument not to join the NRA???  Give me a break.  As my main man John Taffin said in the last issue of GUNS magazine, shooters that are not NRA members are parasites feeding off the time and money of the rest of us.

Sounds to me like the NRA"brainwashing" is working.  Now I see why they spend all that cash on stamps. 

[JohnJacobH]

Here's a link to an interview with an NRA board member Joaquin Jackson who is against rifles holding more than 5 rounds. Hopefully he doesn't convince other board members to share his views.

http://www.klru.org/texasmonthlytalks/archives/jackson/jackson.asp      It is the last video clip on this page.

Many people are surprised to learn the NRA is America's oldest gun control advocacy group as recently reaffirmed by their support of the voice vote to "keep guns out of the wrong hands" by expanding the NICS database to include anyone who is allegedly mentally defective.


But for historical context here is the testimony of then NRA President Karl Frederick before Congress in 1934:

MR. FREDERICK: ... "I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I seldom carry one. ...  I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses"

If he had his way, pistols would be under the same Class III restrictions machineguns and sawed off shotguns are today.

Remember in 1934 a $200 "tax" was financially crippling especially when the weapon involved might cost only $10.00 which in
and of itself was as much as a week or two worth of pay for the working classes.

Here is a link to the entire column:

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/NRA/NFA.asp

Best regards,

[gunman42782]

Now we are going back to 1934?  So, guys, what orgainization out there is better or has more influence than the NRA?  Tell me and I will join them today.  The NRA is the only game in town, like them or not.  Yeah, they have done things in the past that they should not have done.  But they basically tried to stay out of politics completely untill the 60s!  If not for the NRA, you would have no gun rights today, period.  You can choose to not believe that if you want to, but that is the truth. 

[Dharmaeye]

The danger becomes the government - they decide who is a criminal and/ or mentally unfit.
Governments have alway been the biggest mass murders.
Our government has murdered our own many times, from experiments with syphillis on a black town to radiation - all done with full knowledge of the outcome.
Second amendment, whats left of it, along with other rights were to protect us from government and Hitler want a bees.
The now beginning financial distaster in our economy is also a consequence of power hungry politicians.