Pretty good. Thanks for asking. And you?
I don't think everyone is trying to say your wrong or the NRA is perfect. (well some do)
Well, if this is in reply to my last post, clearly wolf_fire was saying I am wrong, and since I'm not, I replied appropriately.
If you're implying that I feel "attacked" or otherwise persecuted because some don't agree with me, nothing could be further from the truth. I don't react well to outright ignorance though, especially when it's offered in a way that implies that
I'm the ignorant party, and claiming that the N R A's support for FOPA '86 falls on the plus-side of their supposed 2nd Amendment "support" is only eclipsed as the
most ignorant thing I've read here by tricolordad's claim that the N R A has a "voice" at the UN.
Otherwise, I'm alright with simply conversing about the pros and cons of the N R A, but really, it seems like I'm the only one who remembers what the main question of this thread is, which I answered again with the last paragraph of my last post. (Why would anyone
not be a member of the N R A is the question I'm referring to.)
But we're all human here and we'll make mistakes. Seeing as organizations are run by humans their going to make mistakes. Now I'm not saying the NRA hasn't screw things up, because we can all see they have. They don't do as much as we wish they would or could. But the other org's don't either. No one group or individual is going to fight and win our battle to keep our 2A right uninfringed. That's going to take all of us and all pro 2A supporters. It's going to take us all together to accomplish this battle we're in!
I really enjoy reading your posts. Your very enlighten and by reading what you write it has broaden my scope of knowledge.
Thanks, Jerry
Jerry, it's one thing to support a .org that is simply ineffective at promoting/protecting a legitimate interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, but consistently argues on behalf of that legitimate interpretation, and quite another to support one that has consistently worked
against a legitimate interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. I agree with what you put in bold above, it definitely
is going to take us
all together to restore some semblance of legitimacy to the 2nd Amendment. That's my main problem though. The N R A has consistently, and even self-admittedly, worked
for gun control. How is supporting them putting those of us who abhor gun control in any kind of condition of working
all together?
And Jerry, while I appreciate the well-intentioned compliment that you think I'm "enlightened," I don't accept it as being true on this subject. I just read. Voraciously. Nothing I say here is the result of it just popping into my head. I have to do hours upon hours of reading to get at the truth of any subject that interests me. My
rights interest me more than almost any other worldly subject, and knowing the truth of their source, the truth of the intent of the Bill of Rights and Constitution, and the truth of who supports them of the people and organizations who ask me for money and/or time to join them in protecting them, are all extremely important things for me to know. But I work my a$$ off getting to where I know the intricacies of such well-hidden truths. I'm really not trying to nit-pick, but the word "enlightened" seems to imply knowledge that is engrained or inherent, and that simply isn't the case with me. If this high-school drop-out can uncover the truth with a bit of due diligence, anyone else can too, and as far as I'm concerned, they should. But so many get so defensive and literally intransigent when truths are presented to them, that they then lash out at those telling them the truth, that does indeed get frustrating at times. If I'm "enlightened" about anything, it does come very natural to me to seek truth, recognize it as such when it's presented to me, and incorporate it within my thought-processes going forward. I don't get it at all when truth is rejected simply because one
wishes it wasn't the truth. Truth just is. Doesn't change it at all to be defensive or rejecting of it, it's still truth.
Blues