<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I would like to see gun ownership treated like car ownership. The fees (taxes) collected each year used for neighborhood services. <div>Marianna<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Jack Gilles via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">John,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your thoughts on what might be done on the gun issue. Here are my additions to what you said.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Make this a long term strategy, say three years, so that in the 2020 elections it can be raised.</div><div class="">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. </div><div class="">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. </div><div class="">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. </div><div class="">5. Go for a “foot in the door”, not win the war.</div><div class="">6. Local-national-local campaign. Learn from the right wing on how they have done it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jack</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 7, 2017, at 11:09, David Dunn via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 7, 2017, John Epps wrote:</div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">7. Opposition from the firearms industry could be ineffective, like opposition from the tobacco industry adapted to the no-smoking movement.</span></blockquote><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Good article. Striking graphic data.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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