http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/UCSO_CELOX-22Dec07.html
Forget for a second that nra supported the 1934, 1968, 1986, and lautenberg bans. Forget that nra won't push vermont/alaska carry. Forget that a few nra board members support various gun/magazine bans, and just ask yourself how THIS "grant" from the nra to a government entity supposedly helps the 2nd amendment. Did lapierre sit in his office and start fantasizing that the nra is actually the federal government and that he is president or something? Is nra going to start giving local governments grants now for bridges to nowhere?
The whole concept of a private organization that constantly pleads poverty "to save our freedoms" in ten pieces of mail per week, just HANDING $2000 to a government entity, is just laughable. To a GOVERNMENT entity? Did wayne forget that government has the bottomless pit of the taxpayer to steal from?
Instead of joining the nra and sending in my $35, should I just write a check to my local GOVERNMENT entity and write in the memo line "I arbitrarily decide that this donation which makes no sense because I'm giving it to a TAXPAYER funded entity, should go for, uh, how bout, new stickers for the police cruisers."
Even the most die hard nra apologist has got to start wondering if something isn't fundamentally wrong with the nra when it goes around giving your donations to GOVERNMENT entities.
Forget for a second that nra supported the 1934, 1968, 1986, and lautenberg bans. Forget that nra won't push vermont/alaska carry. Forget that a few nra board members support various gun/magazine bans, and just ask yourself how THIS "grant" from the nra to a government entity supposedly helps the 2nd amendment. Did lapierre sit in his office and start fantasizing that the nra is actually the federal government and that he is president or something? Is nra going to start giving local governments grants now for bridges to nowhere?
The whole concept of a private organization that constantly pleads poverty "to save our freedoms" in ten pieces of mail per week, just HANDING $2000 to a government entity, is just laughable. To a GOVERNMENT entity? Did wayne forget that government has the bottomless pit of the taxpayer to steal from?
Instead of joining the nra and sending in my $35, should I just write a check to my local GOVERNMENT entity and write in the memo line "I arbitrarily decide that this donation which makes no sense because I'm giving it to a TAXPAYER funded entity, should go for, uh, how bout, new stickers for the police cruisers."
Even the most die hard nra apologist has got to start wondering if something isn't fundamentally wrong with the nra when it goes around giving your donations to GOVERNMENT entities.