[Oe List ...] guns

[Paula Philbrook]

Could we add competency testing like drivers licenses, registrations, maybe
insurance requirements too?

Paula

On Nov 8, 2017 7:36 AM, "Marianna Bailey via OE" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> I would like to see gun ownership treated like car ownership. The fees
> (taxes) collected each year used for neighborhood services.
> Marianna
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Jack Gilles via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Thanks for your thoughts on what might be done on the gun issue. Here are
> my additions to what you said.
>
> 1. Make this a long term strategy, say three years, so that in the 2020
> elections it can be raised.
> 2. Work from the inside out. Set a goal of 10 million new memberships for
> the NRA. Cost is $35/yr. Other option is to recruit amongst those who are
> already NRA members to participate.
> 3. Get a foundation, or wealthy donor, to design a slick, personal, set of
> adds of ideas for a campaign for 2020. It would feature: “I am an NRA
> member. I support the 2nd Amendment." (here there could be a series of
> ideas presented) tax for victims of assault type weapons, insurance rates,
> course in schools, etc. Use the power of images to get the message across.
> 4. Do a similar campaign with vets. Get people to identify themselves from
> red-states. I believe women will be key - keep this in mind in designing.
> 5. Go for a “foot in the door”, not win the war.
> 6. Local-national-local campaign. Learn from the right wing on how they
> have done it.
>
> Jack
>
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 11:09, David Dunn via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2017, John Epps wrote:
> 7. Opposition from the firearms industry could be ineffective, like
> opposition from the tobacco industry adapted to the no-smoking movement.
>
>
>
> 8. Highlight root causes, e.g., an imaginal presentation in today's New
> York Times about the inescapable correlation between the prevelence of guns
> and the death rate from mass shootings in America and across the world.
> Conclusion: it’s not a mental health problem, it’s the image, enshrined in
> the constitution and Americans’ minds, that citizens have a RIGHT to own
> guns. Not new information, but dramatically articulated and presented.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-
> shootings-us-international.html
>
> Good article. Striking graphic data.
>
>
> David
>
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