The National Rifle Association held its first board meetings last week since its high-profile turmoil began this year, during which the group’s leadership apparently succeeding in beating back a group of insurgent members who attended.
If he’d only had his guns, Pincus could have blasted his way through the security guard resistance right up to Wayne LaPierre and the leadership group.
Now that would have been an entrance to an NRA meeting.
What does Hilton have to do with this? Are they founders or something?
The headline for this made me think that they had thrown up barricades for a last stand against the barbarians. The truth was pretty boring, too bad.
If you read farther the tactics used in the board meeting to suppress dissident board members are pretty entertaining.
Pass the popcorn, please.
Especially amusing was the umbrage taken by the former policeman. Of all the nerve, treating him the same way he treated criminals. The humanity!
A board consisting of 76 members can only be characterized as one big, fat rubber stamp, especially when board meetings aren’t well attended. Accountability becomes a sham and it is purposely designed that way to consolidate decision making and power into a few hands.
Ted Nugent reportedly sent the board an angry letter demanding transparency and a clean-up from the group’s leadership
Uh oh. When you’ve lost Ted, you’ve lost the nut gallery.
May I propose a new headline? “NRA in Disarray.”
Bitch-ass little people better not think they be gettin’ between Wayne and his bespoke Italian suits.
Opposition Misfires in Board Takeover Attempt
Junior Board Members Unload on Executives
The only thing it takes to beat a bad guy with an objection is more bad guys with security guards.
I’m as tempted as anyone to enjoy the schadenfreude, but let’s not forget that the NRA is a powerful organization. Chaos in their house – well-deserved though it may be – can still have drastic consequences for the 98% of Americans who are not NRA members.
It’s dangerous to sit and laugh while your neighbor’s house burns down, even if he deserves it. The GOP went through a tough time (intellectual bankruptcy, decline in popularity), but the result is that something much worse grew inside the corpse and has now seized every level of national government.
For the record, I think what should happen is that the NRA should have its assets confiscated, leadership jailed, and disbanded after being recognized as a terrorist organization.
And not necessarily criminals, but merely suspected criminals.
An important clarification. Thank you.
Life is weird when Ted Nugent appears to be one of the reasonable ones …
Beats back, or shoots back?
The boss won’t be removed by anything short of bullets or the law.
I’m betting against bullets, because the NRA’s position that guns are the answer to tyranny is as insincere as its position that guns equal security.