NRA phones (my) home
My home phone rang Tuesday night around 7 p.m., just as I was about to sit down for dinner. Like most of you, I’ve come to ignore my land line. Important calls only come to my cell.
But I’ve started answering these calls lately in order to demand that I be put on the “do not call list.” I don't know if that works but I do it anyway. It makes me feel more in control.
My stomach was rumbling, but I decided to take the call anyway. It was the National Rifle Association.
I grew up hunting, and I don’t have the same knee-jerk response of many liberals when I hear the NRA's name. Gun ownership doesn’t bother me as much as the ham-handedness and incompetence of many advocacy groups. I decided to play along.
The very nice NRA lady told me she was calling with an audio recording from Wayne LaPierre. I listened as the NRA CEO told me that I was one of those Americans who was concerned with the direction of the country. That I saw its freedoms under attack. That I am being lied to by the media (uh-oh). Our borders are not being secured and gun owners are being attacked. That some people in Washington, DC, are trying to rip the heart out of the Second Amendment and that it’s “time to take the country back.”
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http://crosscut.com/2013/10/11/politics-government/116834/nra-recruits-in-washington-state/
