N-R-A Voting Question

[howlrwy]

Another Endowment member, been a life member since 1988, regular member since I joined as a Boy Scout in 1961.  Yes, I vote, and as others have pointed out, I study each candidate (many I know who they are already) and I also look for a good mix of geographical locations. 

I'd also like to add the vote for MB to lose the ear ring, at least on the TV show.  My wife says it just doesn't fit him, and I have to agree.  Still I also support your right to wear one, but please not while on the show...

[ratcatcher55]

I would be glad to get signatures for old MB. I probably been voting since the early 80's

I vote for:
1)  Folks I know and/or admire
2)  Folks who would help the image of the NRA
3)  Folks from a different geographic locations and backrounds.

All in all I probably only vote for 6-10 people every election.

I would imagine less then half of the board is active, the rest just use it to pad their resumes.  I was on an international organization BOD with 70+ men and women and maybe half were there soley for the social functions.

[Rastus]

All good information and good advice.  We need people from the gun subculture to step forward, like MB, to help with the perspective.  Undoubtably we need people with contacts throughout the government (especially the legislature and judiciary) but they should be tempered, or educated, by the gun subculture. 

So...let's put MB up and some of the other guys from Wednesday on the range.

Oh yeah, BTW, that earring....if your wife (married?) likes it you probably need to keep it around...but it seems as though some of us guys are having to look sideways at the show from time to time....

[DonWorsham]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring
"Pierced ears were popular in the Western culture until the early 1920s, then fell into disfavor among women due to the rising popularity of clip-on earrings. There continued to be a small male following, however, particularly among sailors, where a pierced earlobe often meant that the wearer had sailed around the world or had crossed the equator. In rare instances, a pierced left earlobe could indicate a sailor's survival of a ship wreck. There was also a long-held belief that puncturing the earlobe was beneficial to increasing the acuity of eyesight (see acupuncture) or of hearing (perhaps through resonance).

In the latter part of the 20th century, some men in Western cultures adopted the convention of piercing a single ear as a symbol of being gay; often the right ear, although this was by no means a universal convention."

Perhaps Mr. Bane is a sailor. I'm sure he has survived more than one "ship wreck" in his life. He can wear his earring anywhere he wants to as long as he continues to produce the quality shows we've become acustom to from him.