In the thread “A Question of Etiquette...”https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...-for-the-next-guy.884262/page-3#post-11838408 I made the statement that people are selfish. Sometimes it’s a good thing and sometimes it’s bad. But I don’t really think my statement went over very well. People typically don’t like to hear they are selfish. This morning I was reading another thread and it got me thinking. So I thought I would start a thread and see people’s thoughts on 2 questions. If you were to be dead honest.....
~85million or so gun owners in the US. At $50 per person (about a single box of 9mm right now) that’s 4.2 Billion dollars a year that could be used to fight for our rights. If each only gave $20 (a 50ct box of 22lr currently) that’s $1.7 billion.
Now I don’t care what organization you support, love, or hate. It’s irrelevant. But I see these posts about buying these new guns with the $1,200 and (possibly) $1,400 stimulus checks. Well what if gun owners took just $50 of that money and gave it to a gun rights group, rather than spend it on themselves to buy guns and ammo?
And this is what I find so interesting. If you combine what Biden and Trump raised in their presidential election, it comes out to $3.65 Billion.
So....
1. Do you think your money is better spent to purchase firearms and ammunition for yourself, family, or friends?
2. Do you think some of that money, say $50, would be better served going to gun rights organizations and congressmen/women to preserve the rights for all Americans?
~85million or so gun owners in the US. At $50 per person (about a single box of 9mm right now) that’s 4.2 Billion dollars a year that could be used to fight for our rights. If each only gave $20 (a 50ct box of 22lr currently) that’s $1.7 billion.
Now I don’t care what organization you support, love, or hate. It’s irrelevant. But I see these posts about buying these new guns with the $1,200 and (possibly) $1,400 stimulus checks. Well what if gun owners took just $50 of that money and gave it to a gun rights group, rather than spend it on themselves to buy guns and ammo?
And this is what I find so interesting. If you combine what Biden and Trump raised in their presidential election, it comes out to $3.65 Billion.
So....
1. Do you think your money is better spent to purchase firearms and ammunition for yourself, family, or friends?
2. Do you think some of that money, say $50, would be better served going to gun rights organizations and congressmen/women to preserve the rights for all Americans?