Maine Fudd

My folks told me about this story this weekend. Wally dug it up for me.

CAPE ELIZABETH – Warren Roos likes trap and target shooting.

He owns rifles and handguns.

He seems, in fact, like an ideal member of the National Rifle Association.

But he’s leaving his local rod and gun club over a mandate to join the national organization.

What are his complaints?

Roos said his main complaint with the NRA is its lobbying to block laws that would restrict high-capacity ammunition magazines and semi-automatic guns, which he believes are useful only for shooting people.

By contrast, he said, rifles are “sportsmen’s guns and not guns for shooting people.”

First you gotta love the ultra-dummed down talking points. How many hunters and sport shooters use semi-automatic guns? Also If you’re going to speak out against guns “Used for shooting people”, don’t speak out about guns, specifically or in general, speak out against legal force laws! In the appropriate time there is NOTHING WRONG with killing another human being to save your life, or the life of another. This talking point is as short-sighted and unpopular as it is misguided.

Now onto why the club is going 100% NRA Membership:

Wescott said the club will get benefits if it has 100 percent membership in the NRA, including support for a junior shooting team that the club hopes to form.

The NRA will help the team get into sanctioned shooting competitions, he said, and provide financial aid to buy rifles and jackets for the team. The NRA will also do a safety audit of the club’s shooting range, he said, so it can host competitions.

That audit could also be useful in addressing neighbors’ complaints about shooting at the gun club. Wescott said the club has gotten “numerous complaints” since the nearby Cross Hill neighborhood was developed. He noted that the club operated for decades before the development brought in hundreds of residents.

Those are HUGE benefits, also it addresses the huge problem to sporting clubs which is people moving into the surrounding area and then complaining that there’s a long-running gun club near where they just built their house. I love this line:

He said he hasn’t been a very active member of the club, but enjoys the occasional chance to shoot and the club’s social aspects.

So why do we care about why this ignorant asshole is leaving the club? Members like these are a bane to EVERY form of club or group. The people who show up when they feel like it, and are never around when things need to be done to help the organization. If his angle of “We need to ban the guns that aren’t like my guns” line wasn’t proof enugh that he is both self-centered and selfish, then this admission sets it in stone!

Mayon said Roos’ decision to let his membership lapse rather than join the NRA is “unfortunate,” but “with so many members, I can’t make everyone happy.”

He’s more diplomatic than I am. When my folks told me about this story and said he was leaving because he follows anti-gun talking points, and seems to not let his personal ignorance of the issues keep him for speaking like an expert, was “Good, we can stand to have less people like this around.”

The club is better off without members like that.

Oh and on a final note, just as I was squaring away to write this post I noticed that Thirdpower scooped me!

I blame my parents for giving the wrong gun club name when they were telling me the story! Go read over his post, as he also makes some excellent points!

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