JBCG doesn't really replace much of the NRA. Even if hypothetically people could join JBCG at mass scale, which they can't due to the way its structured.
The NRA-ILA is increasingly useless for 2A advocacy and legal efforts, but JBCG isn't replacing that at all. FPC, 2AF, to a lesser extent GOA do more there.
NRA courses are crufty but don't really have a replacement approaching anywhere near the same scale. Certainly not JBCG.
Maybe USCCA for just the pistol side of things, but that has its own issues since their business model is fleecing people.
NRA competition... there's no replacement for bullseye, but that's because bullseye is becoming an afterthought compared to e.g. USPSA in a lot of areas... smallbore and air as a college&younger sport notwithstanding. And nothing is close to trap/skeet/sc in popularity in the US, but that's not NRA either.
NRA club/range support and insurance.... also nothing replaces this.
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What JBCG has that the NRA doesn't, and never had, is the same thing that the black panthers had in the 60s - armed support of disenfranchised subsets of the population. It's harder for the police to shut you down, or stand and watch as an adjacent supremacist group shuts you down, if you have your own armed guards.
Same as armed guards prevented mobs from attacking schoolchildren during desegregation in the late 60s, you see JBCG in a lot of places protecting pride events, drag events, etc. 'cus the police often don't. (In the US, it's not the police's job to protect anyone, that's been tried in the Supreme Court multiple times)
> What JBCG has that the NRA doesn't, and never had,
(Corollary: maybe that makes them a "better NRA", but it's an odd statement to look at because it sounds something like "DuckDuckGo is becoming a better Nvidia". Yes both are computer-adjacent, but they do completely different things, and have roughly never had any overlap in activities)
JBCG doesn't really replace much of the NRA. Even if hypothetically people could join JBCG at mass scale, which they can't due to the way its structured.
The NRA-ILA is increasingly useless for 2A advocacy and legal efforts, but JBCG isn't replacing that at all. FPC, 2AF, to a lesser extent GOA do more there.
NRA courses are crufty but don't really have a replacement approaching anywhere near the same scale. Certainly not JBCG. Maybe USCCA for just the pistol side of things, but that has its own issues since their business model is fleecing people.
NRA competition... there's no replacement for bullseye, but that's because bullseye is becoming an afterthought compared to e.g. USPSA in a lot of areas... smallbore and air as a college&younger sport notwithstanding. And nothing is close to trap/skeet/sc in popularity in the US, but that's not NRA either.
NRA club/range support and insurance.... also nothing replaces this.
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What JBCG has that the NRA doesn't, and never had, is the same thing that the black panthers had in the 60s - armed support of disenfranchised subsets of the population. It's harder for the police to shut you down, or stand and watch as an adjacent supremacist group shuts you down, if you have your own armed guards.
Same as armed guards prevented mobs from attacking schoolchildren during desegregation in the late 60s, you see JBCG in a lot of places protecting pride events, drag events, etc. 'cus the police often don't. (In the US, it's not the police's job to protect anyone, that's been tried in the Supreme Court multiple times)