Research Paper on:
Poor Membership Representation by the National Rifle Association

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are those historians who have traditionally felt that "freedom of speech," has been our most liberating cause. Certainly that is the phrase, which allowed President Heston to make  such claims. Yet in spite of such national "soul searching," according to Woellert (1999), the NRA remains "one of the nations most resilient lobbies," but unfortunately is representing its  membership less and less. Bibliography lists 10 sources BBnraneg.doc NRA - The National Rifle Association Written by B. Bryan Babcock  for the Paperstore, Inc., February 2001 Thesis statement : The National Rifle Associations leadership, condoning of "alarmist rhetoric," indicates it no longer represents its membership appropriately.  Introduction After the tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, the President of the National Rifle Association, Charlton Heston, said, "we cannot let tragedy lay waste to the most rare and hard-won  human right in history." There are those historians who have traditionally felt that "freedom of speech," has been our most liberating cause. Certainly that is the phrase which allowed  President Heston to make such claims. Yet in spite of such national "soul searching," according to Woellert (1999), the NRA remains "one of the nations most resilient lobbies," unfortunately  it is representing its membership less and less. Littleton prompted the publics re-examination of the "right to bare arms," versus public safety. Sadly, we might say that 1999, according  to Graham (2000) was the year of "school shootings;" in light of NRAs argument that "law-abiding" citizens have the right to have guns, makes us wonder how well they know  about reality, or their neighbors Attitudes change: In 1994 Crime Subcommittee Chair Bill McCollum (R-Fla.),(according to Saleton 1999) adamantly claimed, " The problem "is not repeating rifles, it is