When is the best time to fight to protect your 2A rights? 50 years ago.
When is the second best time to fight to protect your 2A rights? Right now.
Well said.
But let's not forget that DoubleNaughtSpy has spotted both a potential problem and a potential cure for it. He has identified the potential problem: the NRA/ILA does solicit donations, usually for such frivolous things as defending your Second Amendment rights. Why pay your way when you can be like DoubleNaughtSpy?
DoubleNaughtSpy's cure for the potential problem is twofold: don't support the NRA and discourage others from supporting the NRA. That
is an effective cure. When the NRA is sufficiently weak, it will stop attempting to solicit money.
DoubleNaughtSpy has shown you how to cure the potential problem: when there is no NRA, there will be no individual gun ownership in the U.S., and no one will need be concerned about NRA requests for donations. Then DoubleNaughtSpy will spread his wisdom to other special interest forums and help them.
My wife and I both are NRA Life Members. There's little chance that I'll live long enough to balance that cost against the cost of annual memberships for the rest of my life.
But we didn't become Life Members to save money. If we wanted to save money we would have become like DoubleNaughtSpy and 95% of the other gun owners in America. Instead we chose to be one of the 5% of gun owners who carry the other 95%.
What's fascinating about that other 95% is that they show neither gratitude nor guilt. They insult the 5% who carry them. No surprise there.
We get no more NRA solicitations after we became Life Members than before. But DoubleNaughtSpy, like other non members of the NRA, is an expert on the NRA and absolutely everything else. We have much to learn from such people. I'm serious: it pays to read what they say because there's always much to learn from their opinions. Read them carefully and think about them. It's an education.
Anyone who is terrorized by receiving requests for donations from an organization such as the NRA has my sympathy. I envision gun owners cowering in fear at the approach of the mailman, piteously whimpering in a corner, cradling a telephone so they can speed dial 911 for assistance. I wonder sometimes how they can bear up under the stress and my heart goes out to them. Will their invasion of unwanted mail never cease? Many of those gun owners crumble. Their nerves shattered at last, they are institutionalized and spend the rest of their lives trying to recover, but to no avail.
Once a proud people, proclaiming their firmness in the face of all enemies, shouting cries of defiance such as
Molon Labe, they were done in by solicitations from the NRA. Fortunate it is that Iran and North Korea have not yet discovered the power that could be theirs. Instead they focus on acquiring nuclear weapons.