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And here is Dave's response:
I will be at all the meetings until this get resolved
Can you keep us advised as to when and where these meetings will be? I was unable to get to the one on Friday (I was over in the People's Republic) but will go to others if I'm around.
I would suggest that at each meeting you simply say "At your meeting on September 30, I brought up the issue of RTC's violation of state law regarding open carry of firearms. I have been informed that there would be a legal briefing on the issue. I would like to know what progress has been made to correct RTC policy to conform to state law, and when further progress is to be expected."
You might also HAND-DELIVER (and get a receipt) information on the Sparks city parks OC correction. This might help them see that they aren't on the side of angels, and show them a face-saving way out.
Please tell me if I am being too rash but I think we need to take more action especially when our rights are in question.
I think that you are being too rash.
Rosa Parks only threatened people's belief systems.
Men with guns are seen as a more direct threat. We need to live Heinlein's dictum that "An armed society is a polite society."
Give the bureaucrats time to find out that they haven't got the support they think they have on this issue. Be there at every meeting, don't let them set it aside, and we will win without making anyone feel frightened.
By going on a bus while OCing is threatening a belief system.
Concur.
But look at how they handled it. They did NOT have sit-ins, instead they refused to give their business to the bus authority, costing them money (they still had to send the buses, but didn't get the fares to pay for the service).
They won using the principles of Aikido. If the company didn't want them in the front of the bus, then surely the company would be happier if they weren't on the bus at all!
In other words, they were pleasant rather than confronting, and they out-pleasanted the company.
We need to do the same thing, but there is the added factor that we are ARMED. We have to NOT be an adversary, but instead be their friends. Instead of forcing the issue, we have to help them see for themselves that they are in the wrong, both in the law and in their fears of us.
This isn't the American Revolution, this is simply getting a few words removed from an obsolete policy, the same way it was done in the Sparks parks and in the DMVs. They were given the chance to read the law and comply, and they did so. Sure, they did it simply to keep from being sued, but they DID it and it only took a couple of polite letters. If we get adversarial, they won't be so reasonable, and it will take longer to get the same result.
Everyone, read this.
Learn it, live it, love it.
THAT is how you create change.
VERY well stated, DVC.