Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
I think he's been pretty effective myself. Most of the time. When he's not throwing gun owners under the bus like with his bump-stock bullshit. He was riding pretty high after the "good guy with a gun" thing and goes and says it would be a good idea for the ATF to take another look at the legality of bump stocks.

But I think North was trying to railroad him on this deal and LaPierre has just a little too much juice for that bullshit.
Yeah, not arguing ineffective or effective myself; and agree on North railroading + LaPierre having plenty of influence. I just think it's silly for any of us to think you wouldn't have those issues in an organization this old... and likewise, it's also silly to think we wouldn't have the same issues with North, or any other leadership. Not that it's justified, but it's inevitable. Some are worse than others, of course. You don't get that far without being a member of one good ol' boy club or another. North included.

It's also not "conspiracy" to observe that the NRA will never work itself out of a job, and it never has tried to. It's an observation of politics. Anyone would have to be quite silly... or more appropriately, naive, to think conservatives are immune from the influence of money, or immune from being shysters, simply because they are conservatives. Every "type" of person seems to believe that their "type" are the good guys, and never do that stuff.