Why R.J. Winans left the NRA

 

There are some people we don’t need in the NRA, GOA, SAF, or NAFGR, R.J. Winans is one of them:

Over the last decade, we have been reminded of the terror firearms become in the hands of the wrong person. These tragedies heighten our indignation toward groups like the NRA because they are the foremost advocates of the Second Amendment. The NRA and its executive vice president Wayne LaPierre’s response to this animosity has been heartless, unclear and detrimental to the organization.
Source: http://chimes.biola.edu/story/2014/feb/03/why-i-let-my-nra-membership-expire/

What part of “armed guards in school” and enforcing our laws against the mentally ill is unclear to you? As for the response after Sandy Hook, the NRA exercised a self-imposed media blakout while they were searching for answers. That’s not heartless, that’s way too heart full. I was pissed off at the time because our enemies were trashing us and the NRA responded with silence.

The reason I let my membership expire — a difficult decision to make — was because LaPierre’s tenure as face of the NRA had become too harmful.

“This guy doesn’t have what the human resources gurus call ‘people skills,’” is how retired gun lobbyist Richard Feldman described LaPierre. While I do not always agree with Feldman, his observation of LaPierre summarizes my biggest issue with him and his leadership of the NRA: He does not know how to relate in a non-combative manner.

Richard Feldman is a sellout who wrote an anti-gun book designed to please Oprah and the other gun haters. LaPierre has a PhD, is a brilliant writer, has had many successes in his career, and if it wasn’t for him, America’s gun laws would be similar to those of Australia or England.

The NRA has a public relations problem. LaPierre has managed to drive the organization into an endless schoolyard-yelling match with leading gun control advocates and, really, all of America.

If it was not learned at recess, it will not ever be learned: Yelling does not get you anywhere, especially when you are at the helm of one of the most hated groups in America.

It seems when LaPierre is put on the defensive — which has been the case of late — he flails hopelessly and creates a negative perception of an otherwise thriving, helpful organization.

Yes RJ, it’s called the mainstream media, they have always hated the NRA, they will always hate the NRA. Yet if you haven’t noticed, the NRA membership has double in New York, what does that tell you? Maybe if you watched a little more Fox News and a little less MSNBC you’d realize that the only people that hate the NRA are liberals, our future lies with the center and independents. As for yelling, we’re the ones being yelled at!

 If the NRA spent more time showing the good they do in educating America about gun safety and combating gun violence, they would be better received. Unfortunately, this is not how LaPierre has run the NRA.

The NRA has made the Eddie Eagle program available to every school in America, you’d know that if you read America’s First Freedom.

As for compromise, which is the thing all Quislings desire, show me any other group compromising at this point? Only RINO’s and cowards compromise, real men fight for what they want, not matter what it is.