NRA Pronouncement re: LaPierre

[springfield art]

Will be interesting to see what the NRA monthly magazine has to say about Wayne leaving; I wouldn't want to be the PR person who has to write the announcement in American Rifleman.

 

[leadhoarder]

If they know the feelings of their audience they oughta give him the same respect due an exhiled dictator.

 

[Splitear]

Easy to write:

"LaPierre Resigns from NRA

Gun owners and gun control advocates rejoice."

 

[BillinOregon]

I threw up in my mouth when I saw Page 12 of the March issue. Shameful. He gets to walk free without a bit of contrition.

 

[BillyC]

I don’t care how he leaves as long as he leaves and pays his own fines!!!!!!

 

[springfield art]

I threw up in my mouth when I saw Page 12 of the March issue. Shameful. He gets to walk free without a bit of contrition.

He does have to repay about 4 million, but he and the entire bunch of them frittered away millions of "our" regular-guy money. The whole "board" should be canned and the Org. re-organized top to bottom. Wayne's a jerk.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Easy to write:

"LaPierre Resigns from NRA

Gun owners and gun control advocates rejoice."

I would add, "Now please renew your membership"

 

[CuNosecap]

If they know the feelings of their audience they oughta give him the same respect due an exhiled dictator.

Pobably true, but remember the Ayatollah was once exhiled. Look where that ended up.

 

[springfield art]

I would love to know for real, how many actual members the NRA has. They claim 5 mil., but I gotta wonder. Magazines are required to print a yearly legal statement attesting to their circulation; I'll have to keep an eye out for theirs. I was once a proud NRA member, and will retain my Life, in hopes of a better day. I re-new yearly to the NMLRA, BTW.

 

[nessmuk]

Now that Wayne is gone (to jail?) I hope they reduce the useless BOD that they have now to 15 with 5 each elected each year, and a maximum of two terms.

 

[sturmkatze]

Such hate. Wayne was way better than the tires they had before. I think he was Warren Christianson. I wore them to expel the first George Bush for the stuff he said about the NRA and they wouldn’t and he went and made it worse. I detested the first Bush.

Anyway, I think LaPierre did an okay job. It’s easy to complain from the cheap seats.

 

[jdw276]

Such hate. Wayne was way better than the tires they had before. I think he was Warren Christianson. I wore them to expel the first George Bush for the stuff he said about the NRA and they wouldn’t and he went and made it worse. I detested the first Bush.

Anyway, I think LaPierre did an okay job. It’s easy to complain from the cheap seats.

Would be nice if they treated every CEO the same. We pretty much all know they are out for one person, themselves, and will destroy a company before they will think about cutting one of their self created perks or take a paycut. Wayne is no differemt than 90% of the CEO's out there in my work history. Sorry for the political view in an open forum. Just watch undercover boss and see how they live and how out of touch they are with their workers for some easy examples. Let alone the ones through history.

 

[BillinOregon]

I don't think being a life member is necessarily the "cheap seats."

 

[OldMaineWoodsman]

It is important to continue to support firearms and conservation organizations. A couple of years ago the Ruffed Grouse Society brought on a new leader. He cleaned house and got rid of all of the "Regional Directors" who grew fat and too comfortable. He replaced them with Wildlife Biologists and Forestry Managers and shifted the mission back to habitat acquisition and habitat/land management, along with something I have been saying for years the NRA needs to do, attract and recruit young people. There were some grumblings since people resist change by nature, but in the end the organization is stronger and more effective. The quarterly magazine "Covers" is no longer filled with just old guys. It is a nice blend of old guys writing about grouse hunting, grouse guns, and grouse dogs, but more importantly, an equal mix of same with additional conservation articles written by women and young hunters.

Time will tell if the NRA can regain much of its lost membership and credibility.

 

[TechMoron]

They could sum it up in one short statement : "Good riddance and decades overdue".

 

[waarp8nt]

He was in a position of trust and should be held accountable. CEOs are not immune from personal criminal liability. There should be criminal charges and a civil lawsuit to get the money back from either his scalp, hide or his personal assets.

 

[wganz]

If they know the feelings of their audience they oughta give him the same respect due an exhiled dictator.

as typical of exiled dictators, he left with a small fortune of $17 million.
to put that is perspective, the average street smuck out there busting his backside to provide for a wife & kids makes $45,000 before taxes.

It would take that guy over 377 years to make that much money.

And this average street smuck is your prototypical annual NRA member that occasionally send in $25 to help the 2A cause.

 

[Frogman88]

I read his statements and could not believe he took no blame or apologized for his transgressions. The man has no shame. Like many things that are happening in our Country now, we should be ashamed, we are letting it happen. I don't want to preach to the choir. You all know what it took to get this Country from tyrants the first time.

 

[BillyC]

The LaPierre types all do these things because they can, and the people around them don’t say a thing because they want to be near them and hope someday they will be the guy on top. Human nature and hubris inevitably lead most CEOs to do these things. They start to feel that they deserve it, so they take it.

 

[smoothshooter]

He does have to repay about 4 million, but he and the entire bunch of them frittered away millions of "our" regular-guy money. The whole "board" should be canned and the Org. re-organized top to bottom. Wayne's a jerk.

LaPierre and his cohorts must not be considered real Republicans or Conservatives by the NY court.
In our two-tiered justice system, any real conservatives would have been given prison sentences, fined 10-20 million $ apiece, and their real property seized.
Anyone from the other end of the political spectrum would not have had anything to worry about.