NRA Membership Inquiries Skyrocket

[Scorpion520AZ]

Well said Cleta, well said.


Google searches for "NRA membership" rose "4,900 percent" since the Florida attack.
by AWR HAWKINS
5 Mar 2018

That rise occurred at a time when many Democrats, media personalities, and Hollywood celebrities were denouncing the NRA as causal in the shooting that took 17 lives in a gun-free zone.

Cleta Mitchell, a former NRA board member and former Oklahoma lawmaker said, "There is no one, NO ONE, who joins the NRA for a discount on a rental car. You can rest assured that the NRA will not lose a single member as a result of this. If anything, it should spur people to join the NRA as a means of demonstrating that we who believe in the Second Amendment will not be bullied by these left wing multi-billion dollar corporations."


NRA Memberships Surge in Wake of Anti-NRA Protests, 'Media Bias'

 

[Hunter8282]

Just renewed my wife's membership for another year. Seriously considering upgrading to Patron level.

 

[vytoland]

Join, Support, Contribute to the NRA.....

there IS strength in numbers.....

 

[gclunde]

Just upgraded to become a Life Member today.

Sick and tired of all the misinformed, collective minded people that feel the government is going to take care of us all.

 

[FlyTyinFool]

Upgraded membership from Life to Endowment a couple of days ago.

Like it or not, money speaks.

 

[Muss Muggins]

How do you equate a rise in the search term "NRA membership" with a rise in actual membership. Nothing in the article states that NRA memberships have risen, although I suspect there's been a small bump. I would advance the possibility that the rise in the search terms in part is due to those who wish harm on the NRA membership searching for information . . .

Well said Cleta, well said.


Google searches for "NRA membership" rose "4,900 percent" since the Florida attack.
by AWR HAWKINS
5 Mar 2018

That rise occurred at a time when many Democrats, media personalities, and Hollywood celebrities were denouncing the NRA as causal in the shooting that took 17 lives in a gun-free zone.

Cleta Mitchell, a former NRA board member and former Oklahoma lawmaker said, "There is no one, NO ONE, who joins the NRA for a discount on a rental car. You can rest assured that the NRA will not lose a single member as a result of this. If anything, it should spur people to join the NRA as a means of demonstrating that we who believe in the Second Amendment will not be bullied by these left wing multi-billion dollar corporations."


NRA Memberships Surge in Wake of Anti-NRA Protests, 'Media Bias'

 

[1stgarand]

The article also stated

"But a large swath of the American populace is equating these various attacks on the NRA with attacks on the Second Amendment, and others see the attacks as proof of "media bias." The result is an explosion in NRA memberships."
I don't know if it is true, but that is what I read.

 

[Scorpion520AZ]

How do you equate a rise in the search term "NRA membership" with a rise in actual membership. Nothing in the article states that NRA memberships have risen, although I suspect there's been a small bump. I would advance the possibility that the rise in the search terms in part is due to those who wish harm on the NRA membership searching for information . . .

Oh I hear you there and thought the very same thing. I've no doubt a percentage of the Google searches may be for nefarious reasons, however even if that percentage is 50%, which I seriously doubt, that would still leave a spike of 2450%, an unprecedented number.

We won't know for sure how much membership has been affected until the political/social climate calms, and the NRA releases official numbers. Of course any rise is a good rise. We need all the help we can get.

So far reports from all over the country, as well as from members of this very forum, some in this thread, indicate a positive increase in membership interest.

Membership in Gun Groups Is Spiking After the Florida Shooting
By ALANA ABRAMSON Updated: March 2, 2018 4:20 PM ET

"Representatives from over a dozen gun rights organizations and shooting associations in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia told TIME they have seen membership rise since the Feb. 14 shooting left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. And two people familiar with the workings of the NRA, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss membership numbers, said that since the shooting the NRA has also seen more people than usual join"

NRA and Gun Rights Groups See Membership Spike After Florida | Time

 

[Old TexMex]

The anti NRA types aren't going to bother. Why should they? They already know the NRA is a terrorist, child killing, organization. (They heard it on Jimmy Kimmel). If someone does it out of honest ignorance, they might well be convinced that the NRA is actually not an evil nest of vipers, but a civil rights organization.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I read the same thing. Notice that statement is not attributed to any source, but merely written by a Breitbart reporter working off a Daily Mail story. The only fact stated from a vetted source was the increase in the number of Google searches.

"But a large swath of the American populace is equating these various attacks on the NRA with attacks on the Second Amendment, and others see the attacks as proof of "media bias." The result is an explosion in NRA memberships."
I don't know if it is true, but that is what I read.

 

[Absalom]

I read the same thing. Notice that statement is not attributed to any source, but merely written by a Breitbart reporter working off a Daily Mail story. The only fact stated from a vetted source was the increase in the number of Google searches.

That's fairly typical for Breitbart, just a rehash of someone else's story with a bigger headline, and a British tabloid to boot.

But the TIME article linked by Scorpion above shows evidence of a considerably better investigation and sources, and tells the same story.

And it makes perfect sense. Americans may be susceptible to subversion, but direct attacks always generate a strong response. I think the anti-gun groups and politicians actually know that, and the demonization of the NRA has less to do with any expectation that gun rights supporters will desert the cause, than with energizing their own anti-gun "base" by giving them a clear-cut enemy to hate. Unfortunately, in America these days that's been shown to work.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Agreed on all counts. The Time article is much better . . .

But the TIME article linked by Scorpion above shows evidence of a considerably better investigation and sources, and tells the same story.

And it makes perfect sense. Americans may be susceptible to subversion, but direct attacks always generate a strong response. I think the anti-gun groups and politicians actually know that, and the demonization of the NRA has less to do with any expectation that gun rights supporters will desert the cause, than with energizing their own anti-gun "base" by giving them a clear-cut enemy to hate. Unfortunately, in America these days that's been shown to work.