by jshuberg on Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:26 am
I've been told that many weigh face-to-face visits the highest, hand written letters next, phone calls and then finally emails. The problem with emails, there are so many robots out there that they don't know if there's a real person behind it or not. If you do send an email, make sure to provide all of your contact info - name, address, phone #, and email address, etc. If you are a constituent, make sure to point that out as well.
If your representative has a town-hall style meeting, meet with as many neighbors as possible, and sync up on your message and get your talking points down, and overwhelm him/her with your position. This will be remembered.
One thing I highly suggest is that when asking for something, be polite about it. Don't bang your fist on the table or shake it at the sky. When on the defense, when our rights are at risk, that may be a reasonable tactic to use, but not when your trying to convince someone to support your position. When you're contacting your rep, regardless of the how you do it, you'll be seen as an ambassador to the gun-rights community. Make a point to represent us as a polite, law-abiding, level-headed majority.
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