BPTR shooters NRA presentation

[laowho]

Dear Don,

Been waitin to hear the responses here. Now I haven't ever been an NRA member, but I've never been a registered voter either. Not really a joiner. I understand that a lotta the competitions are NRA sponsored and that several might even require membership, wh/ is fine by me. Have also been reading that the vast majority of gun owners are not NRA members, and that the majority of NRA members are not in agreement w/ LaPierre's/the NRA's approach to any number of issues. Not posting here to limit myself nor any discussion to policies or other airy abstractions, but to say that your post is a simple reminder that behind every organization and its decisions is a person/are people, and it's always the people that I pay attention to, not the organization and certainly not any propaganda. Forgive me if I look at a politician and ask, "Would I let them walk my dog? Spend an afternoon w/ my kids?" So thanks for your explication here...itsa damn sight more honest and refreshing, whatever the outcome, than is all the BS that normally gets bandied about around almost any issue. I hope that the shooters and their competitions fully take the matter into their own hands (wh/ they seem to have been doing anyway) and be done w/ the bootstrapped reliance upon the perception of any outside "official sanction." Besides, where's the added value of the NRA in any of this? If I "just don't get it," you're absolutely right, and God help me if I ever did. Sometimes I regret learnin what I did manage to learn in law school, and in life, but only when I'm at my most cynical. Cheers, Doug