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Gun Control & RKBA

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14. What do you suggest?

Reply to shadowrider (Original post)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 09:00 PM

Jan 2013

I work hard for and support candidates I know will introduce and vote for gun control laws. Any time one of them speaks out (which isn't easy in the West) I immediately contact and thank them. I write letters to local newspapers and enlist my friends and other Democrats to do so also. I try to have good conversations with my family, especially my grandchildren, about guns and why I hope they will never own or use them. I write to families who have lost dear ones to gun violence. I send money when I can to anti-gun groups like Ceasefire (started by Tom Mauser who lost his son in the Columbine massacre).
Most importantly, I think, is to constantly work at all levels for better schools, teachers, and jobs, and against poverty, drugs, and inequality which produce despair, anger and violence. What else can you suggest?

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I'm actually glad to see such a fervent and dedicated gun restriction crowd on DU. Now tell me [View all] shadowrider Jan 2013 OP

Baby Steps with my gun owner husband HockeyMom Jan 2013 #1

just like religion gejohnston Jan 2013 #3

Those are your choices and I respect them. shadowrider Jan 2013 #5

Seems like you're learning to coexist better than I expected! Glaug-Eldare Jan 2013 #11

So I assume his 2nd Amendment "rights" BEGIN, where yours ENDS? rl6214 Jan 2013 #20

Sounds less to me about changing hearts and minds sylvi Jan 2013 #22

I find this post a bit insulting and unproductive, but since you raise the point: NYC_SKP Jan 2013 #2

Interesting shadowrider Jan 2013 #4

Since I am a NYC native born and raised HockeyMom Jan 2013 #6

The laws + the will (but absent a willingness to go even further) are not the solution. NYC_SKP Jan 2013 #8

True. But you also have to realize that the gun laws in Florida ... spin Jan 2013 #10

That's the difference between citizenship and consumerism. nt rrneck Jan 2013 #9

You might have a point there. Passing laws with enough support is easy. friendly_iconoclast Jan 2013 #16

shadowrider someone will find a pretext to alert and ban your OP. nt jody Jan 2013 #7

Alerting jpak Jan 2013 #12

jpak! Other DUers were creating a tale about you committing a crime. Amazing how some people rush to jody Jan 2013 #13

What do you suggest? locks Jan 2013 #14

Making my travel plans to go to the March on Washington for gun control Jan 26 Dems to Win Jan 2013 #15

shall issue was never 'will of the people' jimmy the one Jan 2013 #17

Why then has 'shall issue' never yet been overturned? friendly_iconoclast Jan 2013 #21

Writing and calling my Rep and Senators. I don't have much money. Kaleva Jan 2013 #18

What you call "complaining" is what I call "the most important part of the battle." ThatPoetGuy Jan 2013 #19