Stand like a rock against the storm

[Rule3]

What the heck doe all these "words" have to do with "activism"??

"Stand Like a Rock" ? What is that a Car Commercial or a Bob Seger song? Sounds so poetic!

Must like to read what you write, standing on some soap box. Preaching to the choir here is not going to help support the 2nd amendment.

Now is NOT the time to bash the NRA. Say what you will but they are pretty much the only going in our "defense" and I doubt any of you would be writing on a Gun forum if not for the NRA

Call and E mail our "Lawmakers" Speak out, they are listening to the children, not reading posts on Gun Forums!

In today's paper, how much influence does this image have on popular opinion??!!

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

This thread got moved here from a different discussion, presumably because we didn't want it seen in General. You're right, it isn't really about planning anything.

Sometimes inaction is the best course of action. We won't win by shouting, demonstrating, or marching. Our numbers are too thin, the opposition too numerous.
With extreme difficulty, I resisted the urge to counter demonstrate against the Antis marching downtown today. I'm not going to change their attitudes and they won't change mine.

What I did was fire off another round of emails to my reps, sent $20 to the NRA, and cleaned my ARs.

If we are to endure, it must be with logical arguments to counter hysteria, concentrating our resources where they will be most effective (The NRA), supporting politicians aligned with our cause and defeating those who are not.

Let the storm rage. The people who matter will only hear the sound money dropping in their campaign coffers. If the NRA needs to stump the base to get that money, fine. If their lobbyists need $3k suits to play the game, fine.
The crowd can cheer all they want, but the team that puts points on the board wins.

 

[GEM]

This is close to being closed as it really doesn't address real activism plans. If you can't propose something besides the same old thing, vague this or that, let it gently come to rest.

 

[joed]

Nothing we can do matters, our only option is to let the wave of emotion break upon us, without flexing. We are currently flexing, which is where the problems come from.

The reason this event seems ‘different’ is because of the venue. This was a well to do, liberal, anti gun place already, with lots of students and families already connected to both media and gun control groups. So, like with Newtown, the instant it occurred, phone trees lit up, mailing lists were activated, and favors were called in to get several of the experienced political operatives who attended that school in front of cameras, reading talking points, and screaming at politicians like seasoned-protestors.

We, as gun owners, cannot change any of this, we as gun owners are responsible for none of this. Nothing we do, say, or give up will derail the machinery already set in motion, all we can do is hold fast and see if we can resist it again, as after Newtown. It would help if our own machinery (the NRA) would try to be similarly robust.

Why do nothing? What speaks are numbers, in this case those marching for more gun control that doesn't work. Watch the news and they will televise the marches of the students. Why can't legal gun owners get out and march for a better method of identifying the crazies as an alternative to more gun control? Right now politicians are watching thousands marching for more gun control and no one marching for some other method of stopping the killings. Numbers speak loudly and send a clear message, inactivity says nothing. I don't buy that we are outnumbered. If someone comes up with a better way to stop the killing people will listen.

 

[GEM]

When we have a real plan, let's post it. Note that massive progun marches have never happened.

Closed.