When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area I discovered that, when I forgot and wore an NRA T-shirt, people would realize that they could admit to me that they liked to go to a shooting range without being scorned or treated as if they were lepers. They would ask me what guns I shot and tell me what guns they liked to shoot. Then we would part with smiles.
The T-shirt was a way of initiating pleasant small talk with people intimidated into silence by the smothering attitudes of the Bay Area where an NRA sticker on a car is an invitation to get your car keyed by the tolerant people who consider themselves to be superior.
Like any activity-based advertising (“I’d Rather Be Skiing, Sailing, Quilting, Bird Watching”), NRA merchandise is a way of meeting people with similar interests.
Read other answers by Gregory Norton on Quora:
- What is the demographic statistics of NRA membership in US currently?
- Why are Everytown for Gun Safety and the Brady Campaign so much less influential than the NRA?
- What is the American gun lobby's argument for retention of assault rifles within the right to bear arms law?
from Quora http://ift.tt/2dam60y
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