Everyone seems to believe that if only the AMA had not accepted "drones" into our organization that the FAA would have just ignored us. Guys, that's not how they work. When drones began to be a problem for the FAA they didn't consider that "model airplanes" are different...they said if it's an object in the National Airspace it has to be under our control. Nothing the AMA did or didn't do has affected where we are today.
If you really want to get paranoid think about what will be the outcome when/if a sUAS ever does collide with an airliner and causes a crash. You can kiss your models goodbye then for sure.