My recent NRA "survey" call (aka fund drive).

[aikoaiko]

I just received a call from the NRA asking if I would like to take a brief survey on the election and I accepted.

The question was, and I paraphrase, if Obama wins the election who do you fear will have the greatest impact on advancing gun control?

A. President Obama
B. AG Holder
C. SOS Clinton

I answered that I really didn't know how to answer and her response was along the lines of... we agree that all three are great threats to the right to keep and bear arms, a list of exaggerated anti-gun positions attributed to all three followed, and she concluded with a pitch for a lifetime membership.

My response was that I feared Mitt Romney more than Obama and his administration because Romney has actually signed a state AWB and hasn't admitted that it was a great mistake to do so. I said that it appears that the Obama administration has abandoned supporting more federal gun control and that I was voting for Obama.

There was a brief pause and then she said that who I voted for was my choice and that her real intent was to see if I wanted a life-time membership. I said, "no thank you."

I share this story because it highlights many of the issues about the NRA that get discussed in this forum.

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Lifetime NRA member

My dad signed my siblings and me up as lifetime members years ago, so I get all their propaganda. Any day now I expect to see my 2012 presidential 'questionnaire', filled with leading questions, kind of like the one they asked you on the phone.

I can't wait . . . I love fucking with them!

[Eleanors38]

3. Whenever my friend gets a call from a group he doesn't like/agree with,...

he says he is "undecided" on the issue. "Why?" I ask.

"Makes 'em spend more money and time trying to convince me."

[tularetom]

2. That's more or less the exact call they made to me a week or so ago

And your response was similar to mine although a bit more eloquent. I did tell them that Obama hadn't done anything to restrict my Second Amendment rights and I had heard nothing that might indicate he had any intention of doing so in the future.

I don't know whether or not I'm still a life member. I told them a long time ago that I was tired of their panhandling and scare tactics and to please terminate my membership. I no longer get the magazine but I still get a lot of mail from them.

[Starboard Tack]

4. Great post! What a truly despicable organization, compared to what it was originally.

Thanks for sharing. I'm glad to see most of our gun owners know how to deal with the fear mongers.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. Thank you for sharing this. K&R

[GreenStormCloud]

6. Odd. I don't get those calls. In fact I don't get any calls from the NRA, and I'm a member.

Maybe it is because I don't have a land line? But I get other calls from political organizations.

[aikoaiko]

8. This was my first call. I've been a member for 5 years now.

And I received it on my cell. But I'm sure I submitted my info with my cell because I haven't had a home land line for 8 years.

[slackmaster]

7. I always tell them the greatest threat to our nation is our failure to fully adopt the Metric System

They still keep calling.