For a while I made it a point to get in convo's about the NRA with anyone wearing NRA regalia or stickers on car windows as I went about my daily travels. Most of them responded as you posted above. I think it was because the American Rifleman never printed an article entitled The Shit Show that is the NRA and How it Got that Way.
Not surprising anymore, if it isn't spoon-fed to them most folks have no idea what is going on in the world around them.