{"id":31715,"date":"2021-11-18T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31715"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:31:15","slug":"do-you-know-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31715","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know Who I Am?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3420,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/quoteinvestigator.com\\\/2011\\\/04\\\/18\\\/groucho-resigns&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/quoteinvestigator.com\\\/2011\\\/04\\\/18\\\/groucho-resigns\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I got a piece of mail yesterday from the NRA that greatly amused me. It said it was from the &#8220;Honors Committee&#8221; of the NRA. I was nominated get the &#8220;National Patriot&#8217;s Medal&#8221; and to be a member of the &#8220;NRA Golden Eagles.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t they know I&#8217;m one of those dissident Life Members who is royally disgusted with Wayne and the majority of the Board of Directors? That I signed the ballot petition for their arch-nemesis Frank Tait? That I&#8217;ve been a critic of the NRA&#8217;s leadership and its direction for the last two years? That 1st VP Willes Lee has labeled me a &#8220;hater&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amused-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amused-rotated.jpg 480w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Amused-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess for the low, low payment of only $250 annually or a quarterly payment of $62.50 required to be a NRA Golden Eagle that all is forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My $250 would get me a special decal for my car, a NRA Golden Eagle ball cap (probably made in China), and the knowledge that I, too, could help pay the legal fees of Brewer, Attorneys and Counselors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2011\/04\/18\/groucho-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">great Groucho Marx said in one form or another<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;I don\u2019t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.&#8221; There are some I for which I&#8217;d make exceptions but this isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a piece of mail yesterday from the NRA that greatly amused me. It said it was from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5855,26,5854,353],"class_list":["post-31715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-groucho-marx","tag-nra","tag-nra-golden-eagles","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31718,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715\/revisions\/31718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}