Letter writing to get our opinion in the media?

[goon]

An article I read the other day titled "Gun owners push back" cited the letter that Joshua Boston wrote to Diane Feinstein. I am wondering if it would be worthwhile for all of us to follow his example and bombard the largest newspapers and media outlets in the country with a massive letter mailing campaign to help get our opinion better represented in the press. I've written and called my rep and senators, but it seems that we need to make a strong case in the court of public opinion too.

What do you all think?

http://news.yahoo.com/gun-owners-push-back-former-marines-letter-dianne-210043517.html

 

[beatledog7]

I think anti-gun people, and that includes anti-gun politicians and most media, think that they already know what we think, and they don't care what we think, because their agenda requires them view us thus:

1) We are dangerous, bloodthirsty, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who just want to kill people,
2) We can barely complete a sentence in English, and all we want to do is kill people,
3) We cling to an antiquated, no-longer-relevant document as our basis for thinking we should be able to have guns so we can kill people,
4) We hate government, and we want to kill its effectiveness,
5) We hate peace-loving people, and we want to kill them.

They're utterly wrong, of course. Whether they realize all these assertions are not true is certainly debatable; I suppose many would argue that antis don't really think we're like that at all. I tend to agree with the latter view. I would say that the antis will like us just fine and will be ready to welcome us into society as soon as we surrender our 2A rights and therefore our guns.

 

[k_dawg]

Until there is at least one honest national level media person willing to hear from us, the firearm owner, you will never get heard I think.

 

[Green Lantern]

I think anti-gun people, and that includes anti-gun politicians and most media, think that they already know what we think, and they don't care what we think

Chalk and cheese. You talk of chalk. Hard, rigid, unable to be shaped into anything but what it is. They are a lost cause.

The "cheese" would be people on the fence, willing to listen to a persuasive, well-reasoned argument from either side. We can't afford NOT to try to get our side of things out there for them to be exposed to.