Airman193SOS:
So much for taking the high road. I have my reasons, which are none of your concern, that I don't join the NRA. Your assertions are reprehensible.
Signed,
Freeloader
Of course you have your reasons, and I bet they are darned good reasons too. I've never met a freeloader who didn't have really, really good reasons for being one. The highest toned freeloaders are those who freeload out of some principle or other. Lower in the pecking order are those who freeload because of a grievance. You're a truly distinguished freeloader because you combine both reasons: you're a freeloader because you want to be persuaded, enticed, lured, and perhaps even seduced to join and instead you've seen my opinion that people like you are freeloaders. So I've both transgressed your principle that I have some obligation to stroke your ego
and created a grievance by insulting you.
I am the reason why you do not belong to the NRA. It's all my fault. Now I must live forever after with the guilt of being responsible for you not rejoining the NRA. My heart will ache forever. Have pity on me.
I suppose you've realized that that I'm laughing at you while I type this message. You joined this thread with the dual aims of identifying
yourself as a freeloader
and complaining that it's "reprehensible" for anyone to identify you as a freeloader. I don't understand the sense in joining a thread to make a fool of yourself while arguing--badly--that you don't like being thought a fool, but you're so impassioned about it all that I do think it's funny.
I agree with
you, though, that your reasons for your odd behavior are not anyone else's business. But I must inform you that my reasons for considering you a freeloader and contemptible are overwhelming and incontrovertible. So my reasons demolish all of your principles, grievances, and other sad rationalization. Of course you understand that
my reasons are not any of
your business.
What I resent is this characterization that people like me are riding your coattails. Nothing could be further from the truth. I guess by your rationale all Texans that own guns are nutballs, and since I asserted it it simply must be true.
Such accusations are counterproductive and holier-than-thou, and have no place in a reasoned discussion.
For that matter, had Mr. Hairless not made such a condescending statement, I would never have posted anything in this thread. Isn't it enough to say that you think that everybody should join the NRA? That's what I came here for, to be convinced to re-join. Instead, I face the scorn of people who should know better than to scorn anyone who even remotely supports them.
The High Road, indeed.
I'm not sure whether a duck resents being called a "duck" but how else to name a creature that looks like one, waddles like one, quacks like one, and emits the pungent aroma of one? I can't bring myself to call such an animal a "lion" even if its little duck brain suffers delusions of superiority, virtue, and pride. It's a duck just as you are a freeloader.
I don't understand why you resent being called a "freeloader" when you identify yourself as one, but you are indeed riding on my coattails and those of every other NRA member because you do not carry your share of the burden for protecting your own ability to own firearms. We carry that burden for you without any help from you. You don't care. You even had the gall to discuss opening a gun shop in Pennsylvania while everyone else funds the activities that attempt to protect those activities. You are a freeloader who has the thought of becoming a professional freeloader.
As for your claim "That's what I came here for, to be convinced to re-join," do
you really believe that's why you joined this thread? Are you sure you
really want to maintain that you expected people here to write you the same explanations you can find on the NRA web site, on numerous other web sites, in various publications, and in a great many other message threads in this forum from the time of its beginning? You know the word "reprehensible" but you can't get widely available information and you expect people to believe that you entered this thread on an innocent quest for enlightenment. Do you believe your own nonsense?
Earlier in this thread someone did express honest concerns and I addressed them directly and at great length. There was an honest man, not a duck pretending to be a lion. You didn't join this thread for honest reasons. You joined it to quack at people who are carrying you.
Go talk to the duck and stop pecking at people who do the work from which you benefit.