FREE NRA gift memberships

[PhantomSniper]

someone posted this link in our local classifieds. hope its legit, I signed up my whole family
www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/

spread the word

[alpineferrari]

I just did , hope it works. I trying to talk every one at my work to join. 

[Doc Wesson]

It is true.. and it works... I spoke with the NRA on the phone the other day about it.
GET EVERYONE TO SIGN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crslttr]

I heard about it the other day. Just signed up my family. I'm going to keep the web address handy so I can pass it along!

Chris

[Mark Vanderberg]

This has been floating around twitter for about the last week. In my opinion, it is only important if everyone who signs up for the free membership in the end becomes a paying member. If you sign up everyone in your family, you should be prepared to start paying for them after the year. It sounds only right to me. If not then your are just taking the resources away from the National Rifle Association for a year. NRA is gambling that you will turn your free membership into a paid membership. Do us all proud and make sure that you do convert to a paid member for everyone you have signed up.

This is not directed at any individual. I just wanted to make my thoughts known on the issue.

[crslttr]

Mark I agree completely. But even if only 25% of the trial members become paying members, that's 25% stronger the NRA will be. I think this is a good idea to try to boost membership. I fully intend to make my wife and son paying members.

[paulfishnet]

I wrote this email after signing up through this offer. You may copy and distribute this essay to anyone. However, if you are going to stand for Freedom, don't do it anonymously. That only robs you of the Freedom to "Make up your own mind." Feel free to change my name to your own and personalize it as needed. If you believe the message, spread it.

Freedom’s Top 10 List
Please forgive the impersonal nature of a generic email from an unknown person. My name is Paul Rose and I live in Colorado Springs, CO. I am an Average Guy in an Average City in an Average State. I am not a lawyer or an intellectual. My education came from the public schools and a state university. As in Emily Dickinson’s little poem, “I’m nobody! Who are you?”

I am writing to everyone in my list of email contacts because I believe that they are Free People living in a Free Nation, the United States of America. Should this message pass beyond the borders of the USA, I hope you also enjoy the Freedoms which were endowed to you by Almighty God.

In the United States, our founders considered Freedom so precious that they fought and died for it. Their second attempt to form a workable government resulted in the Constitution which governs us today. However, they realized that any central government would tend to tyranny if it was not held in check by the individual’s right of Freedom. The original state legislatures insisted that the rights of the individual be specifically spelled out and protected. The Bill of Rights was adopted as “Freedom’s Top 10 List.”  

1.   The Freedom to be an individual with Freedom of Conscience

2.   The Freedom to defend one’s rights, with force if necessary

3.   The Freedom from intrusion by the State

4.   The Freedom of security in one’s property

5.   The Freedom from unjust prosecution

6.   The Freedom of timely justice

7.   The Freedom of a jury trial

8.   The Freedom from excessive punishment

9.   The Freedom of all rights common to Man

10.   The Freedom from power grabs by a central government

From the National Archives website, “The Charters of Freedom” --”During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first two proposed amendments, which concerned the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.” http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html

This “Charter of Freedom” is the bedrock of American society. Our governments and institutions may build on this foundation of Freedom, but they must not chip away at it. All politicians and their flunkies pay lip service to Freedom, but not all of them actively defend it. To establish their own realms of power and control, they routinely attempt to deny the Freedom of the individual in small, seemingly well-intentioned ways. Anyone who seeks to deny or dilute your Freedom must be stopped.

Freedom of Conscience is our first and foremost right. “Make up you own mind.” The right to defend your Freedom is equally important.

Please consider joining the National Rifle Association. The NRA stands in opposition to those who would deny your constitutional Freedoms. Even if you hate guns, your Freedom has been defended by Americans keeping and bearing arms. If that right can be denied to the people, all our Freedoms are in jeopardy. Faced with a radically anti-gun president and administration, the NRA is Freedom’s first line of defense.

I recently learned that the NRA is offering a FREE, 1-year trial membership. The offer is found at www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/ This is a blatant attempt to recruit new members and pump up their numbers and influence. That’s okay with me, but “Make up your own mind.”

If you love Freedom and own a gun, it is your duty to support those who are fighting on your behalf.

If you love Freedom but don’t own a gun, support the defenders of Freedom.

If you love Freedom but hate guns, consider defending the Freedom of others who have “made up their own minds.”

If you think Freedom should be restricted, delete this email. “Make up your own mind.”

If you think others should receive this message, pass it on. “Make up your own mind.”

[Seth]

Thanks for the essay paulfishnet!

For anyone who hasn't checked it out yet, go to http://www.the912project.com/

This site is dedicated to 9 principals...

9 Principles
1. America Is Good.
 
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
 God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
 
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
 Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington
 
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
 Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson
 
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
 Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson
 
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
 Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson
 
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
 Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington
 
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
 On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington
 
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
 Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson