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TACTICS
THAT WORK
INTRODUCTION
WHAT CAN I DO?
I get asked this all the time.
People are frustrated with the infringements and abuses they see growing.
Do you want to fight back? Chip in? Have an effect?
If you want to help protect our gun rights, and freedom in general,
you can get started right now. It's easy.
Your state gun-rights group is listed in our National
Directory (blue button on home page) -- JOIN if you haven’t already,
go to meetings, get involved and you start having a real effect (plus
it’s fun). Write the check. Join one of the national
gun-rights groups while you're at it, to increase your clout -- and
their power. And check this out if you're in my home state of Arizona.
Read and learn more -- learn how to be more effective
than you are -- take a look at my Politically
Corrected Glossary, or the yellow Position Papers
button on home page, for ideas you can use. This helps you talk the talk.
Take a look at out our books on state gun rights
for even more ideas. Find out more about why gun
politics works the way it does. Learn about the Heller Case and the protections it has for the right to keep and bear arms.
Important: Build up your email list so you can forward important news to
people you know who can make phone calls, get active, and help the cause
(you have my permission to forward anything I circulate, or anything on
this site). Political action is rapidly becoming an email thing. Get real
ambitious and make an e-list of all your legislators from my directory or the tool at GOA.
Now there's a great thing to have. Do the same for radio, TV and printed
news in your town. Hey, I'll
take a copy of that one, and put it to good use, send yours to me!
Learn how to watch your own state legislature
online for any gun or freedom-oriented bills you need to know about (and
email news to your friends). Dress nicely on a day (wear a tie??!) and
actually attend a state legislative session or especially a committee
meeting to see how it works. Get alerts automatically on proposed
federal gun laws, with easy ways to contact Congress.
Go to lunch or dinner once
a month with like-minded friends and focus your whole conversation on,
"What can we do to protect our gun rights and expand freedom in our
own community?" Come up with something you can actually do, and go do it. Visit your representatives and let them know what you think. Personal appearances have real impact.
Check out the blue Billboards button on our
home page for a great idea that will affect the public, at a modest cost.
Also from our home page, download, print and ask your own state legislator
to introduce the Gun-Free-Zone Liability Act,
or the High School Marksmanship Act.
Take someone to the range and enjoy some safe shooting. Anyone. Take a
journalist, your doctor, dentist, teacher, relative or anyone who has
never been, and show them how much fun it is, how it isn't connected to
crime, how other people -- just like themselves -- go to the range and
it is good clean American sport. Always start newcomers with a .22, and
be careful not to scare anyone off with a cannon-caliber the first time
out (a bad mistake some macho types make, it can permanently scare off
some people). Oh, and bring extra ammo, everyone always asks for it.
Is that enough for a start?
Will you actually get up and do something...
anything?
You can make a difference, and enjoy yourself.
Get to it!
Alan.
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TACTICS
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