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So that is what stopped you from posting the baby yoda porn thread? 
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I have been pondering this thread’s question for the past couple of weeks, not because I don’t have an answer, but because I wanted to say exactly what I feel. I didn’t want to dash off a message that didn’t accurately reflect my feelings.
I joined this community a while after becoming a USCCA member. In the beginning, I was just a USCCA member without having a CWL from Florida where I live. I was still learning everything I could about the idea and practice of carrying a defensive weapon wherever I could.
When I received my Florida CWL, it was a momentous day. As I am sure many of you experienced, I thought the world was looking at me and convinced I was going to be called out for carrying a weapon. I have been carrying for years now, and no one has ever commented about my weapon. I have friends who know I carry and most of them have commented on how they could not tell I was carrying. I guess after a few years, one does get used to it.
However, back to the thread’s question.
What does the USCCA Online Community mean to me?
It means I know I have a place to go when I need to ask a question about concealed carry, or laws and rules about concealed carry.
It means I know I will find a knowledgeable group willing and able to answer my questions.
It means I know that my ideas about concealed carry might be challenged in a way that makes me rethink my ideas.
It means I know a group of people who have my back, even if we have disagreed on topics in the past.
It means I know I can get a good laugh from the meme threads.
It means I know the moderator staff cares about every one of us.
It means I know a bunch of folks I want to share a meal, a cup of coffee, or a drink with when I can finally fit the USCCA Expo into my travel plans.
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BTW, I’d like to thank all my fellow USCCA community members, here.
I’ve found the internet to be an increasingly boring place. I use to browse the web to kill time, but it’s getting more and more difficult to find anything online that catches my attention. Most of the web is less exciting than watching paint dry. This is one of the very few sites that I visit regularly. We’re a small group of people, but you keep things interesting.
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Cheers to that, @Ouade5. I 100% agree.
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couldn’t have said it better myself have lost all my brothers from desert storm so is a new family for me
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Great place to share ideas,and have met great folks here. I find i learn something new every time I log on. Have a great all 
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I agree and most of what I learn is valuable!
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Unless it’s election season and the trolls start invading…
Again. 
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USCCA is about learning to be responsibly armed. It’s about a zillion other things, but being responsibly armed is the most important.
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As a 6 year and current, paid member van I speak openly about my experience with USCCA or will I be censored like I was on x,com for speaking the truth: All of us here believe 2A is fundamental, is USCCA going to uphold 1A and receive criticisms of policy tjst are questionable according to State and Federal law which is not only bad business but jepordizes all of us as customers when you do this? If you get ■■■■ down , we are screwed. Yet you sit and argue with your customers about member agreements like we don’t know an agreement is only as good as it can. Enforced and when it goes against law, that’s stupid! So are you going to have a discussion on this or will I be censored here too?
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Hello, welcome, and thank you for finding the Welcome thread.
I REALLY doubt this will be flagged.
Can you elaborate on the specific issue you have brought up?
We are all ears….
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It used to be about self defense….still is except your defending yourself against political bullcrap. The lack of moderation has ruined my experience here.
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Like @Karacal says, what is your argument about. Is it about being responsibly armed or is it about politics.
“ There is no need for name calling or insult, an argument about the important things in life is how we learn “ author unknown
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USCCA can be subscribed to completely online. Communications can be through the member page and emails. UBLESS, you ask them to remove your credit card information from being stored - a requirement by law they must comply with. Unless you want to toggle auto-renew on an off or complexity cancel - they claim you MUST call per the “‘member agreement” which it does not say that is the only way but a provided way. The FTC says click-to-cancel as it should be as easy to cancel as it was to subscribe. Researching Michigan law it appears they are in violation of several statutes including those specific to insurance regulations.
I asked them to do the right thing and add functionality onto the webpage or do it by a support ticket. They refuse and insist on verbal cancellation only. This violates ADA compliance, and makes it unreasonably difficult. Their excuse is that it is needed to protect against unwanted cancellation done by disgruntled family or de-subscription services. Yet it offers LESS protection than an online closed loop process and what would stop a nefarious person from changing credit card or other information already editable that would effect the same result of doing harm.
based on numerous complaints they do this to try and retain members.
If they cannot do simple business practices it doesn’t help the mistrust that is going on with people claiming they were not properly covered for the real service. It destroys credibility and harms existing clients is memberships fault due to trust issues and/or they are banned from practicing in jurisdictions due to simply making cancelling and account management in general difficult and non compliant with state and federal law.
I tried talking to USCCA directly to keep this private. They refuse to discuss so I went on x.com and they blocked me. That’s ideologically hypocritical given we all support the free speech even if critical.
I have been a member for 6 years and still am. This is not political it’s about holding our vendor responsible to fair business practices. I know veterans who cannot use a phone and so they are forever members if they sign up? One line of code is all it takes to enable member control of auto-renew in the year 2026!
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That was not my experience. I paid for 3 accounts. My wife and I family plan, my daughters account and I paid for her roommates (changed as new roommates etc), over the years. She got married and they wanted it to be in their own names. So I cancelled 2 accounts and I stepped my account down from their highest to lowest cost plan when they wanted to raise the price without an increase elsewhere to make it feel worth it.
I called got the 2 accounts dropped and reduced my coverage. Took 10 minutes (I’m disabled) and it was done.
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My process from every angle with USCCA has been virtually flawless. If it was terrible, I’d just cancel and leave. My time is worth too much to just bitch about things all day every day. That’s my dad’s job. 
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If this is the game that USCCA wants to play then I would contact a Michigan attorney.
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