{"id":33345,"date":"2013-01-11T05:45:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33345"},"modified":"2013-01-11T05:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:51:59","slug":"hunkering-down-for-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33345","title":{"rendered":"Hunkering Down For The Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRA membership is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/01\/nra-100k-new-members-after-sandy-hook-86001.html\">booming<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Rifle Association has gained more than 100,000 new members in the past 18 days, the organization told POLITICO\u2019s Playbook on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of paid new members jumped from 4.1 million to 4.2 million during that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to get to 5 million before this debate is over,\u201d the NRA told POLITICO\u2019s Mike Allen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The number is a record.<\/p>\n<p>Another record? \u00a0For the first time, I&#8217;m one of them. \u00a0After decades of being a Second Amendment activist, I finally pulled the trigger and joined.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are willing to talk to policymakers about any reasonable proposals and plans,\u201d an NRA official said in the Playbook report, regarding the upcoming meeting with Biden. \u201cHowever, the NRA is hearing not just from Beltway elites and the chattering class, but real Americans all over the country that are hoping the NRA is not going to compromise on any of the principles of the Second Amendment, nor are we going to support banning guns. But we\u2019re willing to listen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll listen &#8211; but we&#8217;d be deluded to expect much in the way of common sense.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the piece comes from &#8220;Politico&#8221;, which writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To join the NRA, one must pay $25. In return, new members may choose to receive a \u201cRosewood Handle Knife, Black &amp; Gold Duffel Bag or Digital Camo Duffel Bag,\u201d the Playbook report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh. \u00a0I got a member card, a subscription to one of the house magazines, a sticker, and \u00a0an NRA shooting cap. \u00a0And I paid $35.<\/p>\n<p>Must have been a Black Friday special&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA membership is booming: The National Rifle Association has gained more than 100,000 new members in the past 18 days, the organization told POLITICO\u2019s Playbook on Thursday. The number of paid new members jumped from 4.1 million to 4.2 million during that time. \u201cOur goal is to get to 5 million before this debate is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33363,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345\/revisions\/33363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}