ORIGINAL: quiksilver
Many donors losesight of the fact thatmany of the NRA's key funded initiativesactually contravene the interests ofstate and local law enforcement (i.e.heightened registration requirements, expansive criminal background checks, tighter gun transfer laws, etc..). I just can't see donating to an organization that undermines the efforts of law enforcement,indirectly causing taxpayer dollars to be wasted in courtfighting thesebattles.
Perhaps the NRA is against more registration, more criminal checks, and more gun transfer laws is because these useless laws are AGAINST the Second Amendment, and don't do a thing to prevent crime!
Hunting organizations are good, but if the Second Amendment ever falls, will ALL hunting NOT be far behind!
As far as asking for donations, nobody is FORCING you to donate! But if you are not helping to defend the Second Amendment, then you are helping to distroy it! Is the NRA the only way? No, but it is the best/strongest voice we have!
4 million NRA members out of almost 100 million gun owners, if ONLY half the gun owners were NRA members you would NEVER hear the words "gun ban" again!