Should I accept or decline her offer? [More]
Well, since you asked, yes, but with caveats.
I wouldn’t go in with attitude if I wanted to get something done or maintain contact. I also wouldn’t go with a list of all grievances. If you can get one or two resolved, that would be “a good first step” and open a door for further interaction. I’d also let her know of my intent to share the basics of our conversation with other RKBA advocates.
I’d pick something where an unequivocal resolution is doable, and have a printed handout of my question/concern, with my contact information, to give her to back up our conversation, for instance:
As an activist member, I’m concerned with how hard it is to reach individual directors. Why can’t NRA post a form on its website allowing us to contact and communicate with one, more, or all of the directors? For that matter, why not make inclusion in an @NRA.org email address directory a requirement for all officers directors?
Or…
I keep seeing the Executive Vice President also referred to as CEO in official Association statements and documents, yet the Bylaws establish all authorized titles and specifically declares, ““The Board may not abolish said offices nor create any other offices.” What is the authority to not comply with that restriction?
Or just hand her this article and tell her you would like a formal written answer to the questions raised, and ask what she thinks a reasonable response time would be.
I’d then thank her for taking the time to meet with me and hear me out, shake hands, document and share the experience, and give an after action report to readers, following up as responses were given or commitments missed, sending her a link to all mentions and inviting her to respond to those.
One Sunday morning, I was in line to enter a gun show at the Miami-Dade County fairgrounds. Just as I was about to slide through the door into the entry screening area, an “authorized journalist” with her camera person in tow, appeared in the line behind me.
After passing interrogation by one of Miami-Dade’s finest, and passing through the metal detectors, I saw her take a quick look around and make a bee line toward the guy wearing the most camo.
I remember thinking, “This could go well, or it could go very, very poorly.”
Remember Mike advising us to ask, “Who is this guy? Why is he telling me this? Why is he telling me this right now?”
The questions that occur to me are, “Why her? Why now? And why Nick 2.0?”
Random toss of the dice maybe?
Right!
Be advised that my parents may have raised ugly children, but not stupid ones.
“The game’s afoot!” — Shakespeare in “Henry V”
https://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/henryv/11/
Straight out of the DSM Playbook…
You guys bring up good points. If I hadn’t been so cynical, I may have come away with thoughts more along the lines of Codrea’s.
As to DDS, yes, this is strange. “Advancement” means she goes after the millionaires, the Larry Potterfields, the David Dell’Aquila types. The most I ever gave to the NRA at one time was probably $200.
I was never a member of the “donor class”. Which did make me wonder, how I ever got on her radar, especially since I haven’t sent them any money at all since 2018 or so. Which again makes me wonder why? The envelope was stamped as well, with a full price stamp, not a non-profit discount stamp or a pre printed postage paid make.