HIFICO and the Legislatures PAR is offering a workshop on gun rights activism.  We'll go over...

Update on current issues
Events next year (displays, rally, NRA meeting, etc)
How Government works
How to write compelling and effective testimony
Lobbying
and more....

Please share this to your friends.

We got a lot of work to do over the next few years. Protect our gun rights from an increasingly hostile legislature, legalizing carry of tasers, and preparing our open/concealed carry laws for our eventual win in Young v Hawaii for handgun carry in public.'

There's also the strong probability that in 2020 we'll lose the Senate and Presidency, along with another possible swing of SCOTUS to the gun control side.

Now's the time to start preparing.

There's also the strong probability that in 2020 we'll lose the Senate and Presidency, along with another possible swing of SCOTUS to the gun control side.

Now's the time to start preparing.

I'm not sure that message will inspire people to attend a workshop or crawl into a hole.

Prepping? You mean like going to a doctor and getting him to go along with the idea of preventively prescribing a stockpile of anti-depressants in order to be prepared when everything becomes even illegaler? 

Tom Gresham's take on the current state of affairs...

https://guntalk.com/news/politics/motivation-and-commitment

Motivation and Commitment

It’s time for a “Come to Jesus” talk in the gun rights world, and it’s not going to be pleasant. I have something to say, and it won’t take long.

It’s time to review our and your motivation and commitment. We just lost an important fight in Washington state when I-1639 was voted in by the public. This repressive measure puts into place a number of restrictions, from increased age limits to buy a gun, to branding semi-auto squirrel rifles “assault weapons” and making it more difficult to buy them.

These same restrictions are being introduced into every state legislature and into the U.S. Congress.

Each of us must do a serious review of our motivations on gun rights. We have to review and reflect on our level of commitment.  Here’s why.

We are losing.

We are losing our rights in state after state. We are losing in the courts. (This may change with the new Supreme Court, but don’t count on it.) We are the good guys. We don’t commit crimes.  Yet we are being branded as the crazies just because we like to own and shoot guns responsibly.

Make no mistake. We are losing, and it’s because so many gun owners are on the sidelines. Sure, they are cheering on the NRA, but they won’t take a day off work to go the state legislature. They won’t write a check for $100 to the NRA each year. They have never actually called or emailed a politician about gun rights. That’s a guaranteed recipe for failure.

I'm not sure that message will inspire people to attend a workshop or crawl into a hole.

Prepping? You mean like going to a doctor and getting him to go along with the idea of preventively prescribing a stockpile of anti-depressants in order to be prepared when everything becomes even illegaler? 

I probably should've posted that in the drunken posts topic.

But it does take a lot of work and a long time to create change.  Changing the vote in Hawaii and getting good candidates to run takes about 5 to 10 years.

Crossposting the December legislative workshops which are a good alternative if you can't make this one.

https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=32411.msg291705#msg291705

A few topics on the agenda are updates on the Young case and tasers, future lawsuits, Capitol rally, and legislative strategy.