Originally Posted by
NEPAKevin
To me it seems like the situation at the NRA is not unlike what I have seen on the local level. You have a whole bunch of people who do nothing but the bare minimum, i.e. pay their dues, so they can say they are a member and occasionally come out and vote when something goes wrong and they get a fire lit under their ass. Then there are a very small number who actually do the work of the organization. Sooner or later, you get some self serving asshole who sees an opportunity and gets himself either elected or appointed to an office and when no-one is paying attention robs the place blind. The really galling part is that the asshole almost always convinces him or her self the they are some how justified in stealing(narcissist?). I believe that the NRA is itself a decent organization but has been badly served by just such narcissists and thieves and on a very grand scale. The only silver lining will be if the scale makes it worth while to prosecute the lot of them.