Posted on 11/04/2006 7:29:45 AM PST by Oakleaf
Print out the flyer below and distribute it gun shops, gun shows and gun clubs/ranges. Stand there and urge people to vote for their gun rights (which is almost always to vote Republican with rare exceptions in local races). This is something that I have done or tried to do in every election cycle since 2000. These are going to be very tight races in some cases and the key to our victory will be TURNOUT! If you can’t do this pass the word to a friend who can. And don’t get discouraged. In six years I have gotten exactly two people to register to vote and one person to join the NRA. What I don’t know and will never be able to know in this world is how many I convinced to vote who would not have voted without my work.
1. Customize the flyer below for your state. It looks better if you BOLD all the text.
2. Go to your local gun stores and ranges/clubs on, especially weekends. Register new voters, remind people of absentee ballots and early voting dates, have them join the NRA . Give everybody a flyer and ask them to spread the word. Leave piles of the flyers and registration materials behind with signs pointing them out.
3. Work out coverage schedules with your buddies if you have several ranges and stores in your area so that there is one person at each store and each range every weekend until the election.
4. “Work” the lines of people waiting to get into gun shows to register to vote or join and pass out flyers. Ask the show promoters if you can leave these materials on the show handout table. It would be great if you could get a table and register people to vote at a show as well as passing out flyers. N.B. Check with the NRA before you try to register new members at a show, as there often will be an official NRA table and you don’t want to cause difficulty.
VOTEGUNS06! REGISTER & VOTE YOUR GUN RIGHTS! GUN WEB SITES
***REGISTER TO VOTE – REMEMBER ABSENTEE BALLOTS! STATE REQUIREMENTS AND FORMS ARE AT: https://ssl.capwiz.com/nra/e4/nvra/?action=form&state=
WWW.NRAILA.ORG CHECK EVC AND GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM
WWW.NRAPVF.ORG ALL STATE CANDIDATES GUN RIGHTS RATING
CHECK BELOW SITES DAILY: SPREAD THE WORD!
WWW.FREEREPUBLIC.COM NEWS, IDEAS, INFORMATION
WWW.THEHIGHROAD.ORG WWW.THEFIRINGLINE.COM
WWW.KEEPANDBEARARMS.COM WWW.GUNOWNERS.ORG (GOA)
http://triggerfinger.org/weblog/search.jsp?keywords=AHSA BEWARE AHSA! AN ANTI-GUN DNC OUTFIT!
Two Great Sites (Not Strictly Political):
WWW.A-HUMAN-RIGHT.COM GREAT PHOTOS! PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE!
http://www.dvc.org.uk/jeff/ COL. COOPER’S GUNSITE COMMENTARIES
VOTE YOUR GUN RIGHTS 06!
Uh, I don't see a flyer anywhere. I see a list of web sites, but that's not all that useful to hand out.
HA! I had a call from Ted Nugent supporting Ken Blackwell.
Please cut and paste the text from my post, modify it for your state and local conditions then print it out. That's the flyer.
Please see EdReform's post. It shows an image of a real flyer, or poster, one that could be posted and printed out.
What you have here is a list of URLs, with some incomprehensible comments.
You can make a flyer in Word, in HTML, in a graphics program, save it on a host somewhere, then point to it. It will have color, nice graphic design, and more.
There are hundreds of such flyers out there. I'm sure each of the websites you mention in your message has such flyers that vistors to their site can print out on their own computer.
You're asking people to cut and paste, reformat, modify, and otherwise turn some basic text into their own flyer. Why would they do that? Do they have graphic design skills? If so, then they already know how to do that.
Spend some time on your efforts. Do something that people can use, as is. Expecting others to do your work for you just isn't reasonable. Design a great flyer, post a link to it, and people will copy it and print it and post it. Post a list of URLs with hard-to-understand comments, and you'll get five or six replies to your message.
It's worth thinking about.
One, I don't have the technical skills to set up a link for a flyer.
Two, the basic idea is that anyone who reads the post can cut and paste the contents onto their computer and modify as desired. The actual flyers I use have color and font contrasts to be eye-catching. Then they use it in their community, leaving copies at places where others can readily pick them up - the cash register at their gun dealer or the hardware store, a table at the local range or gun club, etc.
Three, I haven't seen anything similar at any of the sites that I've referenced, that is why I've gotten this together.
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