The NRA doesn’t speak for its members; it is basically a lobbying arm of the gun industry.

[kpete]

9 in 10 back universal gun background checks

Only seven percent of respondents in the poll, which was conducted before the president's press conference, said they oppose background checks for all potential gun buyers.

Support for universal background checks went across party lines: 89 percent of Republicans and 93 percent of Democrats and independents were in favor, as well as 93 percent of gun households and 85 percent of those living in a household with a member of the National Rifle Association.

Seventy-four percent of Americans, meanwhile, said that more armed security guards would help prevent mass shootings in public places. Thirty-five percent said armed guards would help a lot in places like schools, movie theatres and malls, and another 39 percent said they would help some. One in four said they would not help.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57564386-10391739/9-in-10-back-universal-gun-background-checks/

[Recursion]

1. Hell, the NRA backed that 10 years ago

I didn't know they had changed that position until Wayne said so yesterday. I was surprised.

[sadbear]

2. My conclusion: NRA members are liars or fools.

Why give money money to an organization you say doesn't represent your interests?

[old guy]

5. True this.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Americans support "more armed security guards", which is "more guns", which is an NRA talking point.

[SQUEE]

4. I am a gun owner, and among many things I am NOT..

I am NOT the NRA.
The organization has gone far afield of what it was originally for, much like the Republican Party.
To recognize that once apon a time, Lincoln, Ike and MLK were Republicans is to see how far a group can morph and become the antithesis of its roots.
My father and uncles were long time members of the NRA, the group they belonged to only shares a name with what it has become.

[hack89]

6. There are good reasons only a tiny percentage of gun owners are NRA members. nt