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This guy gets it, the NRA was never about gun control issues, it was started as a civilian marksman program after the US Civil War. Its original purpose, and still its official main purpose, is to organize and regulate competition, shoot sports, promote shooting sports, promote marksmanship, build and help maintain ranges, standardize targets, standardize and record competitions, it was a society to help shooters. It wasn't founded to fight gun control in the 1870's, it was founded to help you shoot better.
Keep in mind gun control in the US wasn't a national problem until the 1930's, and even then it didn't make a comeback until the 1960's. When the NRA leadership proved to be spineless cowards, the members fought back and took control of the organization and used it to fight against gun control because it was the most powerful union of gun owners, but remember its fight against gun control was INCIDENTAL and this purpose is SECONDARY. The fact is, so many of you kids have been fooled by anti gun rhetoric already, you believe their lie that the NRA only exists for gun rights. Its like when capitalists and non communists begin to use retard communist definitions for things, don't do that. Don't become 1984.
In fact, gun control and the ILA is ruining the NRA. What was once a nice shooting organization is now a money hungry system that now uses the ILA as a means to drum up more cash for the fight against gun control, the NRA's main purpose is being eclipsed. Certainly the NRA should be fighting against gun control, and everyone should remain members of the NRA and start e-mailing, writing paper letters, making phone calls, putting heat on the NRA leadership to make sure they know to keep pushing. Vote in the elections, even fit hey don't matter. But also don't forget that the NRA isn't JUST the fucking ILA.
In that vein, don't join the walkout movement. We didnt' save the NRA decades ago by walking out, but by walking up to the leadership and elections and taking over. Do it again. If you are still a member, raise hell. Go to local meetings, say something. Don't let the handful of people at the top run the place, fight back from the inside. In some ways mass walk outs and disruption of the NRA, and its non gun control importance in the shooting world, will cause more harm then good.
>we need to walk out on Youtube for being anti gun, create our own platform nobody will watch
That way we abandon the field to the enemy. When people pull out of Youtube we miss out on the biggest general media platform on the internet, we fail to reach and get the message to regular folks who don't subscribe to alt media providers, or the more hardcore gun culture. Stay on Youtube, continue to, even at a lower rate because of skullfuckery, regular people and non gun people.
Keep in mind, quitting Youtube and the NRA might just be letting the opposite side herd you into a slaughter pen. Join GOA, join NAGR, but don't give them ground by walking away.