Again it is simple stand with the millions of gun owners and support and back cases like HELLER to give it every chance of the court to rule in our favor for gun owners. If you don't believe in the case instead of causing problems like they did with heller STAY THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY.
Agreed.
The last few years the NRA and other groups have shown their true faces and its not to protect all gun owners rights. Its about $$$$$$.
That's been my perspective.
I received this in a letter the other day.
"Dear David:
Your Second Ammendment rights are in grave danger. This is because some NRA supporters like you have not renewed your memberships."
This sort of 'it's all your fault, guilt tripy writting is why I don't renew my NRA membership.
David
Interestingly, I was a member of the NRA for only two years, from 1990-1992. During that time, they morphed from an organization which appeared genuinely concerned with fighting for my 2A rights to an organization more concerned with ensuring I remained a paying member, preferrably one who elevated to lifetime membership, and gave extra contributions on top of that.
I believe it was in the Fall of 1991, or the early Spring of 1992, when letters like the one you shared here, David, began arriving in the mail, and it wasn't not afterwards that I dropped my membership.
I'm not sure what changed at that time, but I noticed the same sudden switch in another organization, AOPA (Airplane Owners and Pilots' Association), a few years back. Despite the fact that the orgnization was growing, along with its influence, their tone became almost desparate.
The one thing I noticed in common with the NRA's earlier departure was a serious increase in various "programs." They were created with good intentions in both cases. However, they also involved programs with lesser returns given their costs. It was almost as if the focus of both organizations changed from remaining within budget and adjusting expenditures to match, to attempting to fund any good idea which came along and adjusting income to match.
I find this very similar to a certain party's approach to government spending. To his credit, however, although Wayne LaPierre, who took the reigns of the NRA back in 1991, worked in Democratic circles (as a legislative aide to a Democratic Virginia Delegate Vic Thomas), before joining the NRA, he also actively campaigned against Democrat John Kerry due to the latter's authoring and support of gun control legislation.
