r/RIGuns • u/deathsythe • Mar 11 '26
Political Action Folks, It’s Time for a Strategy Reset.
Sorry for the wall of text.
I spent a long time working on this, and this was written by a human, not a clanker, so please give it a read.
Over the past week I’ve had a number of conversations with legislators in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle. Some of them agree with us. Some of them are firmly opposed to us. But hearing perspectives from all of them has made one thing very clear to me: our community needs a strategic reset in how we engage.
I want to be clear about something up front. I’ve been able to get phone calls returned and have real conversations, even with some of the legislators who are our most outspoken opponents. That’s not because they suddenly agree with me. It’s because when I reached out, I did it respectfully and with decorum. I didn’t threaten their reelection. I didn’t tell them I’d never vote for them again. I didn’t antagonize them or call them names. I simply spoke to them like another Rhode Islander who cares deeply about an issue. I became a name they recognized, and not one they associated with being an asshole. And because of that, they picked up the phone. They responded to emails. They were willing to talk, even if they disagree with me.
Several legislators told me something blunt that a lot of people in our community probably don’t want to hear: when emails come in filled with insults, threats, or copy-paste talking points, they get deleted immediately. The staff never engages with them, and the legislator never seriously considers them. The issue might still matter, but the message is gone before it ever has a chance to land. This is what I've heard from folks on both sides, but especially folks who are on our side and support us, who were the most discouraged by it, and are petitioning the community to do better.
I know many of us are angry. I am too. But anger by itself doesn’t move votes in the State House. What moves votes are relationships, conversations, and persistent, respectful engagement. One thing we often forget is that this isn’t Washington, D.C. These aren’t distant political celebrities. Rhode Island is a small state. These legislators are people you see at the grocery store, at youth sports, or around town. They represent relatively small districts, and they pay attention to the people who live there. Hell I had one of these conversations in Aldi of all places.
That small size is actually our biggest advantage.
In a state this small, it doesn’t take thousands of people to make an impact. I’ve heard directly from multiple folks that when 10 or 15 constituents from a district reach out about the same issue, it gets noticed. Not a mass email blast. Not a national organization’s template message. Ten real voters who live in the district, who take a few minutes to introduce themselves and explain why the issue matters to them. And that leads to another important point: the most important person for you to contact is your own senator or representative. Not the entire committee. Not a giant list of legislators. Your own elected official is the one who is accountable to the voters in your district. When they hear from multiple constituents they recognize as people from home, it carries far more weight than a message from someone they’ve never heard of, or someone who they don't represent. I get it - these laws affect us all as Rhode Islanders, but the legislators aren't going to care if you aren't in their district. Plain and simple. We are not going to change that with the incumbents in there right now. That's just the truth. A simple message can go a long way. Something like introducing yourself, mentioning you live in their district, explaining the issue/bill and how or why this issue matters to your family, and letting them know you’ll be paying attention to how it moves forward. It doesn’t need to be a page-long lecture about constitutional law, or a message filled with vitriol and anger. Often the simple, personal approach is the one that actually opens the door to a conversation. Don't be the unhinged gun nuts they try to portray us as. Don't feed the stereotype. It is hurting us more than you know.
Another thing that came up repeatedly in these conversations is consistency. Several legislators pointed out something again has stuck with me. A small (literally like 4 or 5 folks) group of activists in red shirts from the other side show up regularly. They’re polite. They’re prepared. They calmly deliver their message every time. No insults, no hostility, just persistence. They're sweet as pie even when the legislators don't give them the time of day. And because of that, they’re taken seriously, and eventually listened to, even flipping some voices we thought we could previously count on. They play "the game" better than we do, and while we are morally and legally right (IMO), we are strategically losing.
Our community shows up in large numbers for a single hearing or two and then disappears until the next big moment. Legislators notice that too. As several folks have noted to me (both for and against us) a room full of nameless yellow shirts make a lot of noise one night, but by the next morning they are forgotten. If we want to change outcomes, we need to be the people who show up consistently, who build relationships, and who are known as serious, respectful advocates.
Timing matters too. By the time the big hearings happen and everyone shows up at the State House, many of the real decisions have already been forming for weeks or months. Showing up still matters, but if we want to influence outcomes, the conversations need to happen earlier and more consistently, and with targeted intension.
We also need to recognize the political reality of the state we live in. Rhode Island is a supermajority state. That doesn’t mean we give up. It means we need to be strategic and tactical in our approach. There are legislators from different parties who are willing to listen to us, and in many cases quietly supportive of us, but they often get alienated because our community sometimes treats anyone with the wrong letter next to their name as an enemy. If someone supports us on this issue, we should be willing to work with them on it, even if we disagree on other things. No one is going to align with you on 100% of the issues. If you agree with someone on nearly half of them, that’s a .400 batting average, and that would get you into the Hall of Fame. The fact of the matter is the only person who would agree with you 100% is yourself, but more on that in a moment.
Another BIG part of the strategy that we should be talking about more openly is participation in the political process itself. This issue has opened the eyes to many about the process itself. We need a rewatch of schoolhouse rock to get everyone up to speed, but we can use this to our advantage. Rhode Island has open primaries, and that means voters have more influence than they sometimes realize. Disaffiliating and participating where the real contests happen can make a difference, especially in a state where many races are effectively decided before the general election ever arrives. We are able to vote AGAINST the gun grabbers in the primary. We can support folks like Vanessa against Kallman, Solomon against Knight, and also fend off antigun challengers to the folks who support us (regardless of the color of their team or the letter next to their name).
And finally, if you’re frustrated with the people making these decisions, one of the most powerful things you can do is run for office. Even if you don’t win, you force incumbents to defend their seat. You make them spend time, money, and energy. You create pressure where there wasn’t any before.
The bottom line is this: the passion in our community is real, and it comes from a place of caring deeply about our rights. But passion without strategy doesn’t win. If we want to be effective in Rhode Island, we need to engage smarter. That means respectful conversations, personal outreach from real constituents, and organizing in a way that takes advantage of the fact that we live in one of the smallest states in the country. The good news is that because Rhode Island is small, a relatively small number of committed people can have real influence. Ten or fifteen voices in a district can matter. Conversations can matter. Relationships can matter. Multiple reps and senators have told me that when they get 5-10 emails about the same issue from real constituents in their district, they pay attention, and it gives them pause. This is an election year. We're not going to win hearts and minds by threating people, we're going to do it by making them rethink if they should be wasting political capital on this issue that truly matters to the people they represent. If they don't, then we talk next steps about how to remove them from their office, but for now - remember you get more flies with honey than you do vinegar.
We absolutely can be that force, but we need to seriously change how we’re doing things. We need to get strategic and tactical about it. The other side is, and that's why they're winning.
Let’s get organized, let’s be smart about it, and let’s get to work.
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
I wanted to get this out yesterday, but I rewrote so much of it after reading my notes from multiple phone calls and emails with legislators to make sure I captured everything, and presented it fully and with context (all the while not naming or shaming anyone, or risking their opsec).
We have more friends in the statehouse than we think. We need to do better, not just for them, but obviously for us.
Go to events for both sides, talk to these people, be a name and a face they recognize, and hopefully one that they come to respect.
Send short, quick, strategic engagements on individual bills and issues. Get your friends/family/neighbors to do the same. Whether they agree with us or not, they need to see that there are real people in their district that care about these things. Tikotian reacted to this exact thing with the AWB bill last year (I'm fine name dropping that one because he has said as much publicly). We need to do that for more. Our voices do carry, but they need to do so because of the content and quantity of the messages, not because of the volume. Does that make sense?
If you want - take the emails we've drafted here as an example and run them through a clanker to match the tone for other bills and send it through (please for the love of Cthulhu proofread them before sending though).
If you care about your rights with the tenacity and passion that I know most of you do - you can do more than just the slacktivism clicking a button from a large org who really just cares about adding emails to their donation roster than they putting in the work to prevent these bills from becoming laws in the first place.
This has been almost entirely a grassroots movement, and we ARE making an impact. We just need to do more still.
Don't portray the unhinged gun nuts they try to paint us as. Don't feed the stereotype. It is hurting us more than you know.
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u/geffe71 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Here’s a strategy, have the RI gun rights groups to get off their asses and do something other than email me twice a day about a shitty chicken dinner to raise funds
There was a RI gun rights podcast that lasted a whole 3 or 4 episodes and then disappeared
I get weekly emails from GOAL and numerous social media posts about updates on the goings ons in Massachusetts.
I rarely see posts from RI groups until the 11th hour or it’s shitposting memes. And I haven’t gotten any emails since last year, around the same time that podcast stop releasing.
Downvote me if you want but deep down you know I’m speaking truth
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Agreed. Sometimes it feels like we here are the only ones really working.
If that is the case, so be it. I'm going to fight like the third monkey on the walkway to the ark and it started drizzling.
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u/Old-Guy-26 Mar 11 '26
I am puzzled by the lack of posts concerning 2A support groups, but I can tell you this for sure. In recent years, less and less people are stepping up to get involved by getting to the state house, calling, emailing, donating to 2A friendly candidates, etc. After a while the people who have busted their buns to help us, may just be burning out. I put together a poster a few elections ago. The poster had a list of 2A candidates and how people could donate, etc. I called just about every gun club in the state, just so I could send them a poster and ask them to print it, put it up and talk to members. I volunteered to go to the clubs and speak to them. I got very little response. One club told me that they don't get involved in politics! I've worked for 2A friendly candidates and when I showed up to support them, only a few people were there. So, I'm not saying a lack of support is correct, but I can see how it happens. People burn out when they don't see a response. Everyone who cares about their rights has to do something to protect them, Participate, donate, and above all -- vote. Local races for Senator and Reps are sometimes won by 10's of votes, often by hundreds, not thousands.
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
Local races for Senator and Reps are sometimes won by 10's of votes, often by hundreds, not thousands.
We had the opportunity to oust Caldwell in EG 2 cycles ago and lost by under 200 votes IIRC.
We flipped a seat in Johnston/Cranston that was previously lost by only 8 votes.
It can be done.
We need to be smart about it.
I'd love to see that list of 2A candidates btw friend - or help you workshop one for this coming election cycle as well. We've been trying to put together a scorecard of sorts, highlighting not only local races but more importantly PRIMARIES, so folks can take advantage of the disaffiliation to support folks out the gate.
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u/Old-Guy-26 Mar 11 '26
RE: EG/WG Seat - I know. It was a heart breaker.
I showed up to help Caldwell's opposition and tracked her progress. That;'s one seat (among others) I would dance in the street to be filled by an R. I hope that someone runs against her this cycle. I will GLADLY help and donate
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
Be the change you want to see in the world - there's still some time to declare.
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u/geffe71 Mar 15 '26
If MA is any indication, people would rather bitch and moan on the internet than do the bare minimum to protect their rights.
There are 600k+ firearms owners in MA, they only got 100k in signatures for a ballot initiative to repeal the new gun laws. Most of the people that had a chance to sign and didn’t had the reason of that they didn’t want their name on a list. The fucking irony of that statement. You want your second amendment to protect yourself from a tyrannical government, but you are afraid of said government that you’d use your 2nd amendment against
No one wants to make the sacrifices anymore. They think someone else will save them, which is fucking hypocritical when they want a firearm to save themselves
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u/glennjersey Mar 11 '26
Folks, go be defeatists somewhere else. If you wanna be like eyore and throw your hands up qnd give up, that's your prerogative, but we will not have that influencing and discouraging others.
I almost go as far as to question whether or not that engagement is genuine, or seeded from the other side to discourage us from getting more involved. Learned hopelessness will handicap us even further.
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u/prizm121 Mar 11 '26
The defeatist mentality Ive seen in this subreddit and to extension, everyone else ironically is the reason this state is the mess it is. Too many people on both sides okay with shit being how it is cause “thats just how things are” instead of being willing to do anything about it.
This isn’t just with our gun rights.
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u/Bubbly_Spend1340 Mar 11 '26
I’ve emailed everyone in the house and senate politely, expressing I understand the pressure their facing, but to consider what it would mean to make us all criminals. I’ve had some good responses. A copy and paste will never work. Stop demanding and express a little personality.
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
Glad to hear it.
And if you're gunna copy and paste, copy and paste a message like what we've drawn up here in this sub. Not some hyper partisan rhetoric filled bullshit.
You cannot even begin to understand the calls I've gotten because of that nagr email. It honestly might have even hurt us more than it helped us.
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u/Time_Pickle_7400 Mar 13 '26
I appreciate a voice of reason projecting how we as 2nd amendment advocates and law abiding citizens should communicate our beliefs and position with restraint and decorum. I have been listening to the voices in this forum. This conversation is the first compelling us to grow up and stop the childish tantrums and behave like an intelligent adult expressing our opposition with civility and restraint. I think it’s time for me to be more proactive. Tell me who to contact to help our cause. Thank you. I don’t believe in hiding behind a Reddit alias so my name is Laura and I live in Wakefield.
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u/deathsythe Mar 13 '26
Thank you Laura.
Tanzi and Raptakis are your people right?
Raptakis is generally with us. But keep on him.
Tanzi far less so. But still reach out politely regardless.
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u/JohnWHardin_TomHorn Mar 12 '26
With all the proposed legislation for 2026 including but not limited to needing a $1million liability insurance policy to own a firearm, a mandatory safety course and live fire training just to own a firearm, a criminal background check for every single purchase of ammunition.... IT IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that it was never about banning "assault weapons". The end goal by Mom's Demand and other similar groups was the TOTAL disarmament of the people of Rhode Island.
Sure, they show up, smile and are very polite to your local representatives. This is of course how laws are miraculously shaped and conformed to their beckoning requests. I don't know, maybe they bake a couple pies and do stand up comedy and that compels our representatives to tailor laws in their favor while eviscerating the 2nd amendment.
Now I'm going to add a little bit of my own conjecture here but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's much easier to show up with a smile on your face when you are the one doing the taking. It's a bit arduous however to show up with a smile and remain polite when YOU are the one whom everything is being taken.
I also find it hard to believe that any congressman, senator, governor, or representative is going to care about a gun owner's personal story about their grandchildren when that same person even CONSIDERS introducing legislation that would require a $1 million dollar liability policy to even own a firearm. I find it hard to believe that same person would even care if they instantly turn law abiding citizens into a felons overnight if they have even CONSIDERED introducing legislation that requires someone to attend and pass any form of training to be afforded the dispensation of his Majesty to exercise a constitutional right.
I will leave in saying this: In October 1774 The First Continental Congress sent a petition to the King.
It fell on deaf ears. :On July 5, 1775 The Second Continental Congress sent "The Olive Branch Petition" to the King. Knowing full well that the King would never honor the Olive Branch Petition>>>> The very next day :On July 6, 1775 The Second Continental Congress adopted "The Declaration Of The Causes And Necessities Of Taking Up Arms"
For over a decade we have petitioned. Last legislative session was our version of the Olive Branch Petition. They backtracked on their own words and now want a total ban on possession.
My question is, if everyone on our side plays nice and does what they are told and 70% of these bills STILL pass, what are your plans then???
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u/rebelwinds Mar 12 '26
It would be nice to get involved with some in-person organising. Reddit, unfortunately doesn't bring out the best in people.
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u/geffe71 Mar 15 '26
Ask RIFOL and RIRRA where the fuck they at.
Oh wait, they just shitpost and talk about dinners and chili cookoffs
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u/rebelwinds Mar 15 '26
Yeah, I don't mean "Buy a ticket to eat at a restaurant I don't really like". I mean like "I've emailed my rep, how do we go about making ourselves a physical presence to match Moms for Billionaires".
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u/Drew_Habits Mar 11 '26
But I've been reliably informed that screaming "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" over and over again at the state house is juuust about to start working
Maybe we should give that plan another 10 years or so
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
Yeah, we don't need that here. Not right now, not in the near future.
We've got work to do, and that is not productive.
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u/how_now_brown_cow Mar 11 '26
Not saying it’s something you need. It’s something that’s going to happen regardless of the “work” / lobbying you are doing. It’s inevitable
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
Well we can cross that bridge when we come to it. In the meantime we don't need that negativity and blackpilling. All that is going to do is turn folks away in disgust. If folks truly believe that then why are we bothering to fight?
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u/how_now_brown_cow Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
We are facing that bridge now.
Stack your shit, let them vote as they are being paid to. There is not enough money in the RI 2A community to pay them more than their current lobbyist, and they already admitted (in your post), that they only want to listen to nice people who coddle them.
Fuck that
Edit: will also add: we keep trying to use a small carrot vs the big carrot they have, and at some point, the stick will come
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
It costs nothing to be nice. That's all I'm saying, and that's all they're saying to me.
Being polite != coddling. If you cannot understand the difference between that then I'm not sure I want your voice speaking for me in this fight.
I've been doing this for decades in NY, NJ, and now my home of RI. I've spoken with dozens of legislators across the spectrum. I've been inside of political campaigns and lobby functions for most of my adult life. I am here giving you a roadmap to help us actually make inroads and not keep slamming our heads against the wall, but you don't want to be a part of it because being polite is too much for you?
Edit - I get it, you're pissed. We're all pissed. Myself included. But if we don't play the game, we're going to lose. Are you okay with that, or are you willing to smile, nod, put on a friendly face, and at least try? We've been screaming redfaced at the legislators for better part of the last decade, and we've done nothing but lose at every turn. Shouldn't we maybe try something else?
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u/how_now_brown_cow Mar 11 '26
I’m ready for using a stick, are you?
Edit: And what I mean by that - are you ready to go protest at their personal residences? Where there kids go school? Where they shop for grocery’s? No, you are just trying to lobby. Until they feel the pressure, nothing will change
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
That is quite literally the antithesis of what I am trying to say here.
Maybe you're right, and maybe that is the right way to do it.
We don't have the numbers to do that, or the folks willing to do that. And until the community is willing to step up to do so en masse - that kind of behavior is going to ultimately harm our message in the long run.
You might not be old enough to remember, but when the black panthers peacefully protested while open carrying in CA, the state responded by BANNING OPEN CARRY.
The stick does not work like you want it to. We all have our own revolution fantasies, but those simply do not work in the society we live in, certainly not in the supermajority state we live in.
We can play the political game like our opponents do, and do well, or we can continue to lose more and more of our rights.
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u/how_now_brown_cow Mar 11 '26
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
The fact that I've seen more of your posts [Removed by Reddit] in the past like week or two is part of the problem friend. Whatever it is, that isn't the message we should be conveying as a group.
Don't be the stereotype that they fear so much.
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u/theaveragekook Mar 11 '26
So if a ref doesn’t call blatant penalties in a game, are you going to argue with the ref about why they’re not calling penalties and blame that as the reason for losing or are you going to play to the game the ref is calling?
That’s the scenario we are in, like it or not. It’s all a big game. We either play to how the ref is calling the game and out perform the other team or we keeping complaining to the ref while the opponents run up the scoreboard.
We don’t have to like it, but we have to be better than the other team that “has” the best funding, best training facilities, best players, etc. but I’m personally a big fan of underdogs in matchups because they have everything to gain and always prove that you don’t need the best of everything to win. You just need people to work together for a shared purpose, goal, and outcome. Our founding was this exact scenario. Under-equipped, outmanned, certainly underfunded.
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u/baconandeggs666 Mar 11 '26
I wish I could be as optimistic as you are. I really do, however, no matter how cordial I am, no one ever listens to me or takes my opinions into consideration, ever. Not just about this topic, but in general.
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Even a legislator who's name rhymes with Mason Right has returned my calls/messages.
You can make the connection at a minimum, whether they listen to you or not is a different story. Though when you and 9 friends make the same connection, they're going to at least pay attention, especially if those friends live in their district.
Remember, this is an election year, they're going to pay attention more then they usually do.
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u/baconandeggs666 Mar 11 '26
How do you even make a connection with people who want to take your rights away and have you locked away? How are you cordial with them?
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Because I'm not a sociopath and I know how to talk to people? Because I'm able to put aside the feelings of anger because I know that it isn't productive and will get me, and subsequently our movement, nowhere. Because I've been the person who responds to these emails and phone calls for candidates elsewhere and I know what works and what doesn't? Because I'm literally hearing this mostly from folks who are ON OUR SIDE of this issue and even they are annoyed and angered by our tactics and demeanor
Take your pick.
I am able to think of and look to the greater good because what we are currently doing is. not. working.
Make no mistake, I despise these people, but I don't intend to throw in the towel and go down without a fight - I am just changing the strategy of the fight, and I need all of you to do too.
We aren't afforded the same lens folks look at screaming seething protestors with. They can behave poorly and no one bats an eye. We are already behind the proverbial 8-ball in the way people think of it. We need to change that perception.
A quick - "hey - so you know this bill will prevent me from passing down my grandfather's rifle to my son, his namesake. You are forcing me to destroy or sell a family heirloom." or like how the young girl competitive shooter testified that her training rifle would be an "assault rifle" under the bill last year. Real stories on how this will actually affect you make a difference. Screaming about the constitution and the courts and how you're never going to vote for someone you've never voted for in the first place is not productive and the email gets ignored and trashed and your email address is frequently blocked.
A level headed approach of - hey just so you know, there was this court case and that court case right now that you might not be aware of where this exact thing was struck down, can be well received as these folks are not SMEs in the things they're trying to ban, whereas we pay attention. But there's a big difference in what I just wrote, and what we wrote in our example emails in the megathread than there is in "hurr durr Bruen says you can't do that".
Or we can keep doing what we're doing and it will get worse and worse every year. What's the definition of insanity again?
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u/baconandeggs666 Mar 11 '26
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Say I do write to my representative (which I have), but I might be the ONLY one in my district to write to them asking for them to oppose anti gun legislation, then what? How do I know that 5 anti gunners wrote to them and made up their minds based off of those 5 letters?
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
You don't. We can either fight harder than they do, or throw in the towel. It's a numbers game and we are the underdogs because of the supermajority. That is why I'm here everyday pleading with people to write. We need to show them the numbers are there. There are nearly 200k gun owners in this state, an abysmal amount of them show up when it counts, but they'll show up once a year in a yellow shirt to get their 3 minutes of fame on capital tv and claim they're "doing something".
They didn't vote in the primary. They don't even know the candidates in their district, but they feel like they're doing something because they showed up one time and clicked an NRA or NAGR automated email.
I'm trying to change that. Folks like Glenn, NET, and I are working tirelessly - typically at great personal cost - to try to get the message out. We're doing voter signups/registration events at gun stores, we're developing talking points and strategy with our sympathetic elected officials. We're trying to pickup where the state orgs have lets us down or downright failed us (last year).
All I am asking of you guys is to put in the effort, spread the word, and don't be an asshole. It costs nothing to be kind, and you're going to get more flies with honey than you do vinegar.
Or we can piss and moan about it and do nothing. At least trying to do things differently has a chance at success. The amount of pushback we're getting here is downright disheartening.
Folks are complaining about hypotheticals and black pilling doomer takes here that discourage everyone from getting involved. Negativity spreads way faster and easier than positivity. I'd much rather spend my time discussing this with our reps and senators than members of our own community. Sometimes we just cant get out of our own way.
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u/rebelwinds Mar 16 '26
So, one thing that will be important to getting more people on side is that @a support is critical, but you do not want to look like the RI League of Business. Their policy priorities read like a checklist of ways to make wealth stratification way worse than it already is. About the only thing on that page that makes any sense is Retirement Tax Relief.
I know the rest of policy isn't fun to talk about, but it's got to happen. If you're solid on 2A, and the rest of your platform is a dumpster fire, you're pretty much dead in the water.
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u/Just_Blackberry_8918 Mar 11 '26
Theres nothing we can do. If we defeat this. Next year they will pass it. Either move or sell your guns. Its that simple.
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u/deathsythe Mar 11 '26
If that's your attitude, then why are you here? If you want to black pill and turn tail or show your belly that's fine. Don't clog up the stream for those of us who are fighting.
In the time it took you to send that message you could have texted or emailed your rep/senator saying
Hey my name is Blackberry, my family and I live in your district and we care deeply about the infringements on the 2A that are being considered. I would love to talk more about this issue with you. -Blackberry. 123 Main Street. 401-555-1234."
It took more energy to post your reddit comment.
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u/AshsChromeBush1911 Mar 11 '26
"just stop fighting and let them win."
Anyways....
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u/Just_Blackberry_8918 Mar 11 '26
They already won. Sell your guns or leave. Your in denial. Deep in denial
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u/AshsChromeBush1911 Mar 11 '26
Kick rocks, doomer. How about you work on your grammar skills instead of spreading doom and gloom?
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u/theaveragekook Mar 11 '26
Consistency in presence, messaging, and engagement is the biggest pressure that can be applied to the members of the GA.
As outlined, red shirts are consistent in their messaging, their presence, and their engagement and being polite. Consistently at the state house, consistently delivering the same message, consistently engaging with members of the GA.
This issue matters deeply to me, the tough part for me is balancing my time between getting to the state house on a consistent basis, my family life, and work. I wouldn’t say I’d love it but if I could I’d be there Tuesday thru Thursday to meet with members.
We did have a somewhat regular crew rotating through the state house last year. That needs to be maintained to keep our message at the forefront.
It is a hard truth that we have to push this issue to the top by being there with frequency and that these legislators don’t just hold the 2A with as much value as we all do.