Partisan chest-thumping doesn't help the NRA - it just antagonizes their natural allies in the fight to defend the Second Amendment. Yet every few months one of these "my way or the highway" threads crops up again from an NRA member.
Try to understand - there are public and political forums which are closed to the NRA, but open to other RKBA organizations. There are things about the NRA that some gun owners can't stomach. Yet we can still exert political pressure for RKBA through other outfits with whom we can agree - other outfits that can be heard where the NRA has become persona non grata.
Boasting that "the NRA is the only game in town" is not only untrue, it disrespects the good work of outfits like the Izaak Walton League, and blows off gun owners who want a voice but don't find it in the NRA.
Believe me, American gun owners these days need friends, not enemies - and that goes for the National Rifle Association, too.
