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In-Reply-To: <3023@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>

Here's my vote for allowing the discussion of NRA internal politics
in this group.

The powers that be have keep this rather quiet.  I asked about a year
ago in this forum if anyone knew what was going on.  I never got a
response.  I assume this meant noone knew.  Which seems to be born
out by this discussion.

At the time of my last membership renewal I wrote a letter to James
Reinke, The NRA President.  I asked for an explanation of what was
going on and stated that I would not renew unless I got an answer.

I received a prompt response explaining the resignation of Ray Arnett
and the hiring of Warren Cassidy.  It was brief and told me nothing
of the politics behind it.  I want to know what is going on.  I am 
frustrated bt the lack of communication with the rank and file by the 
management.  Management we elected.  I favor using this group to air
the information others may have.  

If others don't like it the "k" key works.  The group is a diverse
one.  I was fed up with the proliferation of ".45" articles a while
back.  But that interested a segment of the group.  So be it.  Let
the discussion continue.


-- 
Mark O'Shea
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Tektronix, Inc.
Willieville, Orygun
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From: ucbcad!ames!rutgers!ames!pyramid!weitek!ubvax!frank@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Frank Warren)
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To: ames!jade!jkh
Subject: Re: Hello out there?
In-Reply-To: <2971@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>

   Hi, Jordan.  In response to the message saying we should go into blood
and guts stories on this board, I vote against it.  If we all want to talk
about it, mail.firearms, not the public boards, are the place to discuss it.
Self-defense, blood-and-guts, all that stuff, is not what this group is
about in my estimation.  In my experience, such stuff can get out of hand
easily which is why I had doubts about sending anything to you about it.

If anyone on the board feels threatened and all that, pick up a copy of
Massad Ayoob's "In The Gravest Extreme" where the ethics, politics, law
and practice of self-defense is covered in great detail.  Ayoob also offers
courses in this stuff tailored to the local area if there are enough students
to justify his travelling.  I do not think our amateur opinions about self
defense will, in fact, be as valuable as the 10 odd years of study that
Ayoob has put into the subject.  The boy knows his stuff.

So, without prejudice or heat, I discourage you on the subject of blood
and guts messages.  I feel they don't belong here.


     "Against a diseased imagination, demonstration goes for nothing."
					    -- Mark Twain