I got an invitation to join the NRA today -- sounds a little desperate IMO

[Freelancer]

Here's the letter that came Saturday:
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Dear Friend,

There has never been a more important time for you to accept the enclosed
NRA membership card and carry it with pride.

Right now there are hundreds of gun-hating politicians, judges, radical billionaires,
and freedom-hating media elites are attacking your freedom with everything in their
Arsenal. They’re attacking in the courts, the state legislatures, the media, and even in
Congress.

They have spent decades passing anti-gun regulations… packing our courts
with gun-hating judges… and they’re promising to fight on and never surrender
Until the day they tear the heart out of our Second Amendment freedoms.

If you want to save your guns and your precious freedoms––for you and
your children––please act NOW. Please accept this card and join the NRA today.

No other symbol packs the power of your NRA membership card. That’s
because this card has stopped hundreds of schemes to ban your guns and ammo,
make you pay sky-high taxes on firearm purchases, and shut down gun shows, ranges
and hunting lands.

How could this simple membership card be so powerful? Because
behind this card stands the ironclad commitment of over FIVE MILLION NRA
MEMBERS to fight gun-ban politicians and media elites who attack ou guns and
Trample our freedoms.

This card offers crystal-clear proof toour elected leaders that if they push
gun legislation, licensing and prohibition, then they can expect defeat in the next
election! It’s that promise, backed by NRA membership muscle, that stops gun-
Banners in their tracks.

So if you believe with all your heart in the purpose and power of your NRA
membership card, put it in your wallet. Then, make your personal commitment to
the future of our firearm freedoms by joining NRA today.

For a fraction of what it costs to buy guns, gear and ammo, you can STAND
and FIGHT with NRA to defend our shooting and hunting traditions. And if you join
NRA in the next 30 days, you can join at low, introductory new member rates.

That’s right. If you join today, you’ll get a full year of NRA
Membership for just $30 (regularly $45). Or you can join for three years for only
$75 (regularly $100). The longer your commitment, the more you save.

Plus, if you join today, I’ll send you three special benefits:

NRA’s heavy-duty duffel bag.
Your choice of an NRA magazine.
Your NRA member credentials package.

Can I send these three benefits to you today?

If you r answer is YES––and I hope it is––then please complete the enclosed
NRA Membership Acceptance and return it to me today!

Remember: NRA is the one firewall standing between your Second
Amendment rights and those who would take your freedoms away.

But our strength to FIGHT and WIN comes from YOU. And with our biggest
Battles just ahead, we need your help now more than ever. Your are the key to victory.
No one can take your place on the front lines of the battle for freedom’s future.

Please accept your NRA membership card today. Thank you for your
Friendship and support of our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I look forward to
hearing from you soon.

Yours in Freedom,

Wayne LaPierre
Executive Vice President
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I thought some of you would like to know what kind of rhetoric your right wing relatives have been being spoon fed by the NRA.

LaPierre makes the card sound like Little Orphan Annie's decoder ring from "Christmas Story."

So, waddya think? Should I join? That tote bag looks damn nice, I must say. <–Kidding

[NJCher]

1. This has typos and errors

Did you type it in?

Cher

[Freelancer]

14. I typed it at 4 in the morning. A space and a double letter are mine, but most are theirs. -nt

[Sedona]

2. Please delete, this breaks the DU rules

DU prohibits peddling talking points from right wing sources. Pretty sure 12 plus paragraph from Wayne LaPierre qualifies as prohibited.

[hexola]

9. Showing the text for examination is not "peddling"...

Give your fellow DU'er some credit - we ARE as smart as you.

[NJCher]

21. I've never seen an NRA solicitation

so it was interesting to me to read what their pitch is.

I seriously doubt that anyone on this board is going to look at this post as anything but NRA propaganda and hucksterism.

[Sherman A1]

3. If it came with a postage paid envelope

I would tester it up and send it back.

[kaotikross]

5. keep the stickers and put em in urinals :D

[TheBlackAdder]

12. +1,394,228

[kaotikross]

4. The same old BS from these moneygrubbers.

I've read enough of their crud to last a lifetime. It's always "THEYRE COMIN' FOR YER GUNS!" ,lol. Now that they got a "repub" potus and had a repub congress of course their little cash cow dried up a bit.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Send 'em a check made in the amount of.....

thoughts and prayers....... ........

[Freelancer]

15. OOOH that's harsh. I like it. -nt

[CentralMass]

7. Tell them you dont do business with organizations that help Russia buy politicans.

[Dennis Donovan]

8. I hear that, included in the env w/ the membership card, is a Russian passport...

I mean, why not?

[Vinca]

10. Gee, I hope I get one. I'm in the mood for letter writing. LOL.

[Takket]

11. The nra does a great job playing

To the notion that the white male gun owner is the victim of persecution in this country. The way that letter is written is no accident. Draw out their anger and they will draw out their wallet as well.

[Freelancer]

20. Great quote: "Draw out their anger and they will draw out their wallet as well." -nt

[aikoaiko]

13. Same old, same old.

This type of rhetoric is normal for the NRA for at least the last 15 years at least (probably longer).

[sarisataka]

17. Longer,

It is about the same as the letters that were sent when Clinton was President.

The only thing that changes is the gift. It used to always be a baseball cap, now it is usually the carryall or a pocket knife.

[Adrahil]

16. I am a gun owner...

...and they always send me crap. Ugh. They used to call me, despite being on the no-call list. I threatened to report them and that finally stopped.

[keithbvadu2]

18. NRA solicitations

NRA solicitations
comment from a blog - I think I got it here at DU

I had a coworker who was a big time gun owner who kept a gun in every room in the house just in case someone broke in (lots of problems with that idea, may be worth a blog article someday, but thatís what he did). He even went so far as to start buying more guns for each room after a school shooting, like home invasion and mass shooting are correlated somehow. He had let his NRA membership lapse and refused to renew it because he got tired of nonstop requests for donations. To him all the membership did was give the NRA to badger him for more money with phone calls, and direct mailings. If the
organization is as strapped for cash as it appears, those solicitations may have gone way over the top and people are simply tired of being badgered for money and are choosing to let their membership to lapse.

[jcgoldie]

19. Radical billionaires and freedom hating media elites... oh noes!!!

They forgot child loving people who think kids shouldnt have to dodge bullets at school...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. fill in Mulvaney's name, put a penny in it, mail it back