Re: AARP
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Greg Langelius *</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If I thought boycotts worked, I'd be boycotting a ton of groups, and in the end, mostly all I'd be accomplishing is cutting my own nose off to spite my face.
When you take a look, a good look, at who's for and against gun ownership, you begin to recognize that beneath the surface, there's hardly any group that doesn't support gun control to at least some small degreee, either directly or indirectly. Figuring out who to boycott is hard enough, but even if you could identify them all, it would probably be impossible to live without providing at least some of them with some support anyway.
I refuse to be intimidated into altering my lifestyle because some wrongheaded individuals have managed to worm their way into some otherwise good organizations. They don't deserve that sort of satisfaction. I prefer to think in terms of them busting their chops to drive a wedge between me and my guns, and failing despite their best efforts. Meanwhile, I'll take 'em for all the bennies I can get out of their public assistance programs.
If we allow such organizations to drive us this way or that, they control our lives, even to that small degree. If we allow such organizations to scare us in any way, then <span style="font-style: italic">we</span> are the ones who provide them with at least some of their clout. I choose not to permit them that power over me. I own guns, I will continue to own guns, no matter what the AARP try to do to alter that fact. They are not the boss of me.
Greg</div></div>
Additionally, if every time a large membership organization begins to lean against your personal policy views you just pack tent and leave then EVERY large membership organization will consist ONLY of people with opposing policy views. If you want YOUR policy views to be known then you have to participate, recruit members, make YOUR opinion the majority opinion. You can't BOTH be a hermit AND complain that you have no influence in society.