CA RKBA initiative effort closing down

jnojr

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Due to very low levels of participation and poor communication with the group sponsoring the effort (including our inability to get a signature count), we're calling it off.

If we were anything close to on-track to getting enough signatures, we'd know. But we aren't. Our effort was severely hampered by poor communication and organization... we were basically trying to build up while the signature gathering period was running. My analogy was, the race had started, and we were still building our race car.

We've learned a lot, and this initiative will be put forth once again in '08 Our intention is to build a real organization that can accept donations (maybe even a dues-based group), and build our effort up and have it ready to go when the gathering period starts. We want to have a professional website and the ability to supply forms and professionally-designed posters and flyers, rather than asking people to go out-of-pocket for forms and cheesy flyers we threw together ourselves :)

Please destroy any unfilled petition forms you may have... they cannot be reused. Filled out forms should be delivered to the TACR address.

If you have any questions, ideas, concerns, etc. or would like to be involved with building a group to tackle this initiative in '08, please email joliver@reformcagunlaws.com
 
For a couple of reasons.

One is, every time shall-issue is put forward, the antis come out screaming about rivers of blood in the streets, etc. It never happens, but that doesn't stop them from screaming, nor does it stop the unwashed masses of sheople from listening.

Another is, we don't want to have a very complicated or too-focused item up there... it's hard enough just to get a simple RKBA (especially along with the language it has that will give us heaps of ammo to go after every gun law on the books). But for every particular item (shall-issue CCW, repeal AWB, repeal magazine ban, etc.) that gets added, there's another group that'll come out screaming and yelling.

Putting forward a simple RKBA puts the antis in the position of having to admit that they do not believe in an individual RKBA. Adding shall-issue or repealing the AWB allows them to say that they do think there's an individual RKBA (yeah, right!) but that they're just opposed to schoolkids being massacred with hidden guns or dangerous "assault weapons".
 
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