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All,
I was doing my normal internet checking and all that and wound up back at the NRA-ILA site where you can write all your legislators. State, local and national legislators from YOUR zip code are all listed and automatically addressed.
Once you write your message (or copy/paste it) from another place, you just click on either "Email" or "Written" message and you'll see what it looks like.
Me? I always use the "Written" choice as it's a real, live letter, sent via US Postal and they have to read it and respond, which is good.
Emails are generally just blasted through but they have to actually open the mail and document it. Obviously the President isn't going to read your letter, but one of his aides will. The same goes for your senators, governnors and congresscritters.
If you select the "mail" option like I did, the document prints to either your printer or your computer as an "rtf" document so you can make sure it will work with your printer before printing or sending anything.
It's all finished. All you do is print it and stuff an envelope. About a month or so later, you'll get a nice reply that will not actually say anything, but you did at least get your message added to some list in their office.
So, head on over and send out a letter. I've made up a small Word document that has all the addresses in it now so anytime I need to send another letter, I just crank out an envelope, type up a message and it is done!
Here's the link in case you've never been over to the NRA-ILA site:
NRA-ILA | Write Your Reps
And if you hate the NRA, you don't even have to be a member to use the service!
Anyway, don't get stuck on the sidelines. Write your legislators, no matter how stupid they appear on TV.
AD (none of my guns killed anything while writing those letters)
I was doing my normal internet checking and all that and wound up back at the NRA-ILA site where you can write all your legislators. State, local and national legislators from YOUR zip code are all listed and automatically addressed.
Once you write your message (or copy/paste it) from another place, you just click on either "Email" or "Written" message and you'll see what it looks like.
Me? I always use the "Written" choice as it's a real, live letter, sent via US Postal and they have to read it and respond, which is good.
Emails are generally just blasted through but they have to actually open the mail and document it. Obviously the President isn't going to read your letter, but one of his aides will. The same goes for your senators, governnors and congresscritters.
If you select the "mail" option like I did, the document prints to either your printer or your computer as an "rtf" document so you can make sure it will work with your printer before printing or sending anything.
It's all finished. All you do is print it and stuff an envelope. About a month or so later, you'll get a nice reply that will not actually say anything, but you did at least get your message added to some list in their office.
So, head on over and send out a letter. I've made up a small Word document that has all the addresses in it now so anytime I need to send another letter, I just crank out an envelope, type up a message and it is done!
Here's the link in case you've never been over to the NRA-ILA site:
NRA-ILA | Write Your Reps
And if you hate the NRA, you don't even have to be a member to use the service!
Anyway, don't get stuck on the sidelines. Write your legislators, no matter how stupid they appear on TV.
AD (none of my guns killed anything while writing those letters)