On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 12:03:54 PM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 1:45:22 PM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 7:31:26 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:36:40 -0800 (PST), wrote:

The NRA has record high membership and they manage to spend close to a
half billion a year on causes and candidates so rumors of their demise
by people like Madcow are greatly exaggerated, grounded in wishful
thinking.

Really? As far as I've been able to determine, they've been claiming
"five million" or "nearly five million" or "5.5 million" for about
eight years. Analysis of their IRS filings suggests that much of
their income (and income growth) nowadays is from donations rather
than dues.

My husband used to be a member, but dropped his membership because
the organization was getting "crazy". He still shoots fairly often.

Same here, I left the NRA twenty years ago. One thing that annoyed
me was the non-stop mailings, every couple of weeks, with a moronic
letter with a plea for more money.

I still get those from the Republicans. Apparently they have not figured
out I left them yet. A couple weeks ago I got a letter from Melania.
It said "check enclosed" on the outside. The check was a copy of a check
for $45 that Melania had donated to the GOP. The letter asked me to do
the same. That's the kind of shystering that got me fed up with both
the NRA and GOP. Another GOP favorite is a letter from the chair saying
that next week I have to give the president a list of our supporters
from NJ and I hope to be able to put your name on the list. Or the
critical "survey', with questions like:

Do you think Trump should be impeached?
Are you in favor of NK having nuclear weapons?
Are you in favor of unlimited abortion?
Do you approve of open borders?

I used to get those. I answered the questions the opposite of the
way I knew they expected, although I'm convinced that nobody ever
looked at anybody's answers. They only looked for the check.

Cindy Hamilton