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.

Important: Build up an 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. 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!

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?"

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 THAT WORK