We need to start strategizing this. HOW DO WE DEFANG/DECLAW/DEFUND the NRA????

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21. I have found that large organizations, especially well-funded and influential ones

will only do the right thing IF THEY'RE FORCED TO. It could be propaganda-driven - like Mothers Against Drunk Drivers worked to make it uncool to drink and drive. I think we have to take it directly to them. Put them on defense. Make them look bad.

What about making it SOOOOO costly to do business that they shut down? A hundred lawsuits a week? Letter-writing campaigns? Sit-ins at congressional offices? I realize most of this stuff doesn't work well - we sure tried to shut down the Iraq war during the dubya years - and that didn't do much. BUT IF WE COULD GENERATE ENOUGH ACTION THAT WE REACH A CRITICAL MASS...

Ideas! We need 'em!

And the problem with the NRA - there is massacre after massacre and NOTHING has happened, and NOTHING significant has been done, and the blather and propaganda go on. Outfits like the NRA are COUNTING on that sense of hopelessness and a David who's too depressed and demoralized to pick up that slingshot against Goliath. They're COUNTING on us getting mad for a few days and then rolling over and going back to sleep, or worrying about how to get home in time to see the Honey Boo Boo show or "Dancing with the Stars" or some such mindless dreck.

HOW DO WE GET THE BALL ROLLING, THE DRUM BEATING, THE PEOPLE RISING UP? Let's figure out what will stick, what will make the bad guys in this case look SO DAMN AWFUL that even they can't stomach supporting the NRA anymore. Sour the milk. Poison the well. HOW DO WE DO THAT, AND DO IT EFFECTIVELY?????