NRA car window sticker

[Tom S.]

So, the problem I have with this "Living in fear thing" is it's not just living in fear.

I really have had someone trash my car because they didn't like my Bush bumper sticker.

I really have had some nut job chase my wife all the way down Nevada Avenue because I had a W sticker on the car.

And it really did stop cold the day I took those stickers off my car.

I know that stuff can happen because I've seen it and if I can mitigate the risk by removing the sticker I will

I had someone key the side of my truck. People can get PO'd at you for the type of vehicle you drive, or for your driving for that matter, or because you honked at them, or looked at them, or you parked crooked. If someone's looking for trouble they'll find you regardless.

I don't live in the middle of Montana where everyone carries a hunting rifle in their truck. I live 30 miles from downtown Detroit, where everyone (of any intelligence) carries a pistol. I don't look at it as being afraid for my life, I look at it as being prepared, just like I won't drive a car without a spare tire. And yes, since you brought it up, it is my right to put that decal on my truck. Just like it's right not to have one. Let's make a deal: I won't quibble about your choosing not to have one if you don't quibble about me choosing to have one.

 

[mr-mom]

I do not purchase my vehicles for the purpose of advertising anything. NADA. I even remove the dealer information. I don't like stickers, period.
Dave
SWCA #2278

 

[Smoke]

I had someone key the side of my truck. People can get PO'd at you for the type of vehicle you drive, or for your driving for that matter, or because you honked at them, or looked at them, or you parked crooked. If someone's looking for trouble they'll find you regardless.

I don't live in the middle of Montana where everyone carries a hunting rifle in their truck. I live 30 miles from downtown Detroit, where everyone (of any intelligence) carries a pistol. I don't look at it as being afraid for my life, I look at it as being prepared, just like I won't drive a car without a spare tire. And yes, since you brought it up, it is my right to put that decal on my truck. Just like it's right not to have one. Let's make a deal: I won't quibble about your choosing not to have one if you don't quibble about me choosing to have one.

I'm sorry if you thought I was telling you that you shouldn't have a sticker, I was just explaining why I don't. And explaining why I don't like the "living in fear" thing. Which is exactly the same term that the antis use to describe us carrying a gun at all.

If anything I would say the people that say I'm living in fear by not having a sticker on my car are the ones who are quibbling

 

[woodsltc]

So, the problem I have with this "Living in fear thing" is it's not just living in fear.

I really have had someone trash my car because they didn't like my Bush bumper sticker.

I really have had some nut job chase my wife all the way down Nevada Avenue because I had a W sticker on the car.

And it really did stop cold the day I took those stickers off my car.

I know that stuff can happen because I've seen it and if I can mitigate the risk by removing the sticker I will

Thought this was about NRA decals !!

Anyway the day you gave-in, you lost some of your freedom to live and think as you want. If everyone was to "mitigate the risk" we would soon be nothing but a nation of sheep...afraid to step out of our homes.

You can live the way you want to. But don't chastise me for refusing to kowtow to bullies .... I'll stand up for my rights and be able to look myself in the mirror in the morning, thank you.

Don

 

[meaneyedcatz]

I refuse to put gun related stickers on my car or on a t-shirt because I don't advertise to idiots with bad intentions.

My wife wants a STL Cardinals decal on the back glass but that means we cannot drive north of Peoria/Bloomington/Normal.

 

[BC38]

Thought this was about NRA decals !!

Anyway the day you gave-in, you lost some of your freedom to live and think as you want. If everyone was to "mitigate the risk" we would soon be nothing but a nation of sheep...afraid to step out of our homes.

You can live the way you want to. But don't chastise me for refusing to kowtow to bullies .... I'll stand up for my rights and be able to look myself in the mirror in the morning, thank you.

Don

I will too - but I won't offer my back to cowards or make my family or property an easily identified target for them. I like to think I'm smarter than that.

I still go where I want, do what I want, and say what I want.

Tell you what, I won't chastise you for making yourself a target, if you stop implying those of us smart enough to avoid doing so are cowards.

Deal?

 

[Stevens]

Thanks to all who answered. The thread has drifted from my original and only concern about robbery by the car being broken into by someone seeing the sticker and wanting to steal a gun that could be in there, to a theme of concern of attack or vandalism by anti gun "haters". Be sure there is very little anti gun sentiment out here in countryside South Louisiana but there is no shortage of guys who wouldn't mind breaking a car window if they suspected there might be a gun to steal in there.
So, I'll probably be taking the sticker off, but still supporting the NRA, I wear their monogrammed Jacket often, no one around here minds.
Thanks again for all the interesting suggestions and comments
Steve W

 

[JohnRippert]

I have no stickers on my vehicle simply because I don't put stickers on my vehicles.

While my BIL was in the Marines I had Support our Marines magnets on my SUV's. That is the only thing I ever put on my vehicles.

 

[woodsltc]

Tell you what, I won't chastise you for making yourself a target, if you stop implying those of us smart enough to avoid doing so are cowards.

Deal?

I didn't imply that anyone was a coward anymore than you implied that anyone that choses to put a NRA decal on their vehicle isn't very smart.

Think about it though......when others are allowed to dictate what you can display on your vehicle or in your yard, then you are being intimidated to give up your first amendment rights. Next time maybe they will want you to give up something else....and so on and so on. At what point do you stand up and say enough is enough.

As I said before you do as you choose and I'll do as I choose.

Deal?

Don

 

[BC38]

I didn't imply that anyone was a coward anymore than you implied that anyone that choses to put a NRA decal on their vehicle isn't very smart.

Think about it though......when others are allowed to dictate what you can display on your vehicle or in your yard, then you are being intimidated to give up your first amendment rights. Next time maybe they will want you to give up something else....and so on and so on. At what point do you stand up and say enough is enough.

As I said before you do as you choose and I'll do as I choose.

Deal?

Don

Absolutely.

And yes I was intentionally implying that putting the NRA sticker on your car isn't "smart" - for the express purpose of pointing out the the broad-brush strokes you were making. Looks like you picked up on it - so my point was made.

I don't allow anybody to "dictate" to me not to put the NRA sticker on my car - any more than I am allowing you or anyone else to dictate to me that I should. I routinely speak my mind so I've not abdicated my first amendment rights.

It is a free choice on my part. Just as it is my choice not to go to certain neighborhoods late at night, and to choose to ignore the gunbuster signs in locations where they don't have the force of law.

I carry concealed, but I don't go looking for confrontations. I don't get in urination contests with road-raging idiots either. Although I am prepared to defend myself, I'd rather avoid getting into situations were I need to do so if I can. IMO, that is the wiser course of action.

Likewise, I'd rather avoid having my home and cars vandalized or broken into by attracting the wrong kind of attention to them.

You feel it makes you more of a free, brave or stand up guy to advertise your firearms possession to thieves and anti-2A crazies? Have at it. They can target you and leave me alone.

To each his own. Stay safe out there.

 

[robvious]

My father had a LEO friend he shot IPSC with whose license plate was 45 ACP... his wife's plate was 357 MAG... no one noticed the NRA sticker... and no one messed with their cars... that bold a statement may have scared the bad guys enough... or it could have just been back in a better time...

 

[pawngal]

The only place my NRA sticker goes is on the door of my pawnshop.
Along with another alluding to owners being armed.
"Nothing in here is worth dying for"

Only sticker on my truck is a Ducks Unlimited one.

Forgot about the best sticker on my pawnshop door
"Protected by Smith & Wesson"

 

[gman51]

I don't have any gun stickers on my vehicles because it is just asking for possible problems. Thieves and anti gunners might see a sticker as an advertisement to cause problems for me. I see no point in drawing idiots to my vehicle or me.

 

[PALADIN85020]

If I could find a sticker for it, I'd put it on my car:

"Pit Bull Benevolent Society of America - Life Member."

John

 

[G.T. Smith]

I took my NRA sticker out of the window of my truck. It used to not bother me but these days it does. I live way the hell out in the country and I shoot alot. When I am done shooting I remove the targets and put them in the shed or burn them. I don't want the folks that I see cruising around out here at times, to think there may be a shooter living here with guns. I don;t think you can be to careful anymore. Sad but true. I never did like bumper stickers or window decals anyway.
Peace,
Gordon

 

[Smoke]

Right after the Sandy Hook shooting a bunch of people on a political website called Democratic Underground decided to retaliate against the NRA for the shooting.

They had several discussions going about ways to vandalize the homes and vehicles of NRA members and they made it quite clear that those stickers were their primary means of identifying NRA members.

I don't know what ever came of it (probably nothing) but it proved to me that those stickers at least potentially mark your car as a target.

Thought this was about NRA decals !!

I also want to address that the damage done to my car was in relation to political bumper stickers. This is true but I submit that the type of person who's going to vandalize my (or your) car because there's a political bumper sticker on is just as likely to do it over an NRA sticker.

Again, to me the risks outweigh the rewards.

 

[geddylee10002000]

I've driven mostly Volvo cars for the last 30 years or so, and get a twisted sort of amusement at the occasional double take when some latte-sippin' suburbanite notices the big NRA medallion on the rear window. Might be the only Volvo in the Midwest with both NRA and thin blue line stickers.

My ancient Dodge 3/4 tonner has a Tree Farm medallion on one lower corner of the rear window and a Chapman Academy sticker on the other.

I am also a Chapman Academy Graduate. One of my instructors has a "Retired Marine Sniper" sticker on the rear glass of his truck. Gunny has never had a problem. Me NO stickers what so ever.

 

[Absalom]

The only "political" sticker on my truck says "Teddy Roosevelt for President".

Covers everything. Guns, hunting, outdoors, the Big Stick in foreign policy, conservation, what have you. But I never got anything but positive comments, especially during the last campaign season.

And any lowlifes scouting for a break-in target are unlikely to remember enough of their high school history to draw the inference that my truck might be more likely to have a gun on board.

 

[vonn]

Sad state of affairs that people are afraid to express opinions today but the crazies really are out there. I am not sure we can even fix it!

 

[Tom S.]

Years, actually decades ago, I had a bumper sticker that said "Ted Kennedy's car killed more people than my guns". It generated a lot of comments by people, and non of them were negative.