Has anyone considered this yet....?

[Dorian]

I firmly beileve that the internet is going to seriously help the removal of the AWB, and Gun Control legislation in general.

How "mainstream" was the internet during the AWB? I personally can't remember, cause I was only 13 in 94.

I think that this bit of technology is going to seriously assist in the bringing together of shooters and pro-2nd amndment people. And it makes people so much more aware of what's going on.

And most importantly, it informs people like me, who don't know any better, on what they can do to help and what is going on.

Heh.... thought this post was gonna be a lot longer.

 

[blades67]

It didn't help in '94 and it won't help now. Apathy is to blame, but nobody cares.

 

[Majic]

You have to remember that here you are "Preaching To the Choir". Look at our membership size and compute the ratio against the total voting public. If you total all the firearm forums membership base to skew statistics, remember alot of us are on several forums. Plus alot of the members are not U.S. citizens. Statisically we are of no concern in the polls, but we can do the leg work of a grassroots effort. In that point is where we make a difference, but that is not a new concept and historically has gotten the victories we have in the laws now. Our biggest problem is that politics is a game of "LIAR'S POKER" played on it's highest level. Many politicians have been put in office on promises only to later, when in power, turn their backs to you in the form of a compromise to support something else.
The trick is to find ways to spread our information so EVERYONE would be exposed to it. Not just the few here, who are already like minded.
We are growing, but we don't get a fair chance to get our message out to the masses.... YET!!!

I hate to rant, but politics sucks

 

[NRA Instructor]

We all complain to each other about our elected officials and that gets us no where. One thing many of us should do is to take a few minutes to write them a letter and express our feelings. Believe me, they do pay attention to the written word coming from someone who votes.

I assume that all gun owners take the time to vote. Remember, this is a representative republic. Too bad many young people forget this and don't take the time to vote.

"My vote doesn't matter". "Nuts", as a famous general once said. We elected a pro-gun state senator last year with a majority of 46 votes out of thousands that were cast. If 47 gun owners had stayed home that day it would have made a difference.

"If your don't vote you have no right to complain about the outcome of the election".

We many not always agree with the answer we get from our letters to our elected officials, but they have listened and they will hear from us again on election day.

Some of them do not know the difference between gun control and crime control. It is up to us to educate them. And please, no response to this that gun control has to do with a steady aim.

Yes, I practice what I preach. I've so far this year I've written to both my local representive and my state senator. They know where I stand on getting the right to carry here in Wisconsin. And I now know both are pro-gun.


My one regret, I just wish my spell checker worked on the High Road.

 

[JSolie]

I firmly beileve that the internet is going to seriously help the removal of the AWB, and Gun Control legislation in general.

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but, to borrow an analogy from Poe: That pendulum swings both ways...unfortunately. :banghead:

We can organize, they can organize, we can write letters, they can write letters, we can vote, they can vote. However, we just need to make sure to do more to regain lost ground.

I haven't written yet to my state representatives (mainly cuz they're both pro-2nd amendment, and a couple of other causes near-n-dear to me), but it's high time to do that. I wonder if it'd even matter sending letters to the two senators from my state...

-- John

 

[Correia]

Information is power. Yes the net can help beat the AWB.

You want an example of what the net can do. Look at what happened to Smith & Wesson. Where did the boycott start? Right here. Now compare that to Ruger in the first AWB. There were plenty of people, but there weren't enough angry people aware of what had happened to have any real power. The internet was in its infancy then.

It isn't just the gun boards or the AWB, it is much much bigger than that. Look at the panic in the main stream news media. Their monopoly on the truth is in danger.

There may only be 5,000 people who read a piece of information, but those people are decentralized. They pass it onto two or three of their friends who aren't online, they pass it to a few more. You get the picture.

However it doesn't do us a bit of good if we don't get off our butts are bug the heck out of our legislatures.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I believe the internet has made it more difficult for people to get away with lies, and lies are precisely what leftist extremist so-called "gun control" laws are founded on.

Once upon a time, we had to buy magazines to find information on firearms and shooting and Second Amendment issues. Now it's all a click or two away. I've found myself becoming far more politically involved in the years since I first ventured onto the internet.

 

[45R]

The internet is yet another useful tool in the fight against gun control. I believe that its limitless but its the people who must act. The internet is a way to diseminate the information. Its up to what people believe when the read the information. They then act accordingling. Will the internet help with the removal of the AWB...................I really hope so.

But I live in CA .....................

 

[geekWithA.45]

To Answer the original question....

The net was really just getting started in 94, as a widespread, commercial concern, and it wasn't really a force to be reckoned with at the time.

Things are different, now, and it'll be interesting to see what the impact is.

Think of the Net as a 10 million channel TV, where having your own channel is cheap and easy. It's mostly full of seething, churning crap, and a coupla high quality places, like THR.