2004-10-15
WHAT OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT?
I'm the NRA and I vote but I don't ~and won't~ vote according to the dictates of a tight knit cabal carrying on like rabid dogs in suits telling me how to vote | I'm capable of making my vote decisions on my own | Some of those decisions, will be identical | Others are definitely not |
NRA's central office has been sending poltical literature to members' mailboxes with the frequency and scope of a virulent e-mail SPAM campaign | And little of it has anything to do with why I originally joined, that is, to support protection of my Second Amendment rights |
NRA execs are out of line when screaming about tax change proposals [then again, they may be more likely to pay something if Dubya's kindness to the rich is rescinded | the average Joe members that comprise the member rank and file don't fit in those tax brackets] |
And it's insulting to hear them defending Dubya's casual assaults on the environment | The NRA is comprised of gun owners, some of whom are hunters and conservationists | I'd venture to guess that among the top dogs, they may be hunters, but they don't speak like conservationists |
"I'm the NRA" because I hunt and firearms are one tool that comes in helpful in that ancient survival art | "I'm the NRA" because I support the right to keep and bear arms and am comforted that the average citizenry could form a militia in the event that some nascent dictatorship would try weaken our nation by taking away our rights | And I suspect free speech would go first, before they took away the firearms | And when campaign materials come so blatently one-sided, I feel free speech slipping away already |
So my comment to the NRA's leadership group is this: Get back to the basics | Continue to speak for responible firearms ownership and the right to keep things that way | Continue the hunter and firearms safety competitions | We need them around | But Shut up already on the off-topic opinions and keep them out of the mail | I'll just be throwing them away | ¶ 23:00
I'm the NRA and I vote but I don't ~and won't~ vote according to the dictates of a tight knit cabal carrying on like rabid dogs in suits telling me how to vote | I'm capable of making my vote decisions on my own | Some of those decisions, will be identical | Others are definitely not |
NRA's central office has been sending poltical literature to members' mailboxes with the frequency and scope of a virulent e-mail SPAM campaign | And little of it has anything to do with why I originally joined, that is, to support protection of my Second Amendment rights |
NRA execs are out of line when screaming about tax change proposals [then again, they may be more likely to pay something if Dubya's kindness to the rich is rescinded | the average Joe members that comprise the member rank and file don't fit in those tax brackets] |
And it's insulting to hear them defending Dubya's casual assaults on the environment | The NRA is comprised of gun owners, some of whom are hunters and conservationists | I'd venture to guess that among the top dogs, they may be hunters, but they don't speak like conservationists |
"I'm the NRA" because I hunt and firearms are one tool that comes in helpful in that ancient survival art | "I'm the NRA" because I support the right to keep and bear arms and am comforted that the average citizenry could form a militia in the event that some nascent dictatorship would try weaken our nation by taking away our rights | And I suspect free speech would go first, before they took away the firearms | And when campaign materials come so blatently one-sided, I feel free speech slipping away already |
So my comment to the NRA's leadership group is this: Get back to the basics | Continue to speak for responible firearms ownership and the right to keep things that way | Continue the hunter and firearms safety competitions | We need them around | But Shut up already on the off-topic opinions and keep them out of the mail | I'll just be throwing them away | ¶ 23:00
