Hawaii wants to abolish Second Amendment.

A tourism boycott seems to be in order here.
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Really?? And just where would you send your tourism dollars?? Europe??? :eek: California?? :rolleyes: NY? :p

Point #1
In order for a boycott to have any effect, at all, the people being boycotted have to know they are being boycotted, and WHY!

Point #2
The people being boycotted have to CARE.

Point#3
The people affected by the boycott must be the ones responsible for the reason you are boycotting, or have leverage on those who are.

I don't see any of those applying to the rhetoric (or even the actions) of a few wackjobs in the Hawaiian government.

But, don't let that stop you, just be sure to call the Hawaii tourism bureau and let them know WHY you won't be going to Hawaii and spending thousands of dollars. And get all your friends to call, too. And call EVERY travel agency in the book, too, and explain their loss of business, due to circumstances beyond their control, too.

Make sure they all understand that they lost their commission because of Hawaii's gun politics. (and not for any other reason). AND all the hotels, airlines, and etc., all the way down to the airport taxi service. Make them aware they're losing money, and WHY. Let them call the Hawaii govt and complain, too.

Oh, and better not order that Hawaiian Pizza, and consider a pineapple free diet, and let Pizza Hut, and Dole, know WHY! :rolleyes:

I don't hold any great hopes for your success, but good luck, anyway!
 
Not only is it a stunt to pander to voters; but it is a stunt that actually hurts those voters chances of getting any kind of gun control by creating backlash amongst voters who disagree and reinforcing their not-unfounded belief that the goal of gun control is elimination of civilian ownership in its entirety.
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I agree, but the press is not going to give this much coverage. And while polling on specific gun control goes up and down, eg support for "assault rifle" ban going up, and then going down, and now going up; in the last twenty years there has been an under reported broad ground shift on whether the public sees firearm ownership as an individual right. A frontal attack on the second amendment is actually counter to long, medium and short term trends.
but keep in mind this effort can be used for messaging by the gun control lobby: "we just want to be reasonable and ban the 'bad guns' but we can't even get that."

The Left can put together things like marches, occupy wallstreet, gay pride parades, etc.
We NRA members, GOA members, and gun owners can't seem to muster up the numbers for these kinds of protest rallies that might make a difference.
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1) I like gay pride parades. I also am not in agreement with any number of GOP positions. I am certainly more libertarian than conservative left/right

2) Stop wringing your hands about rallies. Gun ownership is inherently confidential and private. I would say 90% of gun owners I know are not going to go to a rally. The other side also has a lot more money to organize rallies. Competing rallies goes to our adversaries' organic strengths.

Can we not go down the 'leftists' are coming trail again. One failure of the RKBA advocates is noninclusive stereotyping like that.
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We absolutely need to be inclusive. But it would be as erroneous to ignore the increasing partisan divide demonstrated by actual voting on this subject. Rather than left we should say "Democratic party." Since the objective cold facts on legislation related to gun control -- and surveys on attitudes of voters by party show this issue is more partisan then ever. Republicans are more pro-2A than ever. We certainly have the most pro 2A president.
 
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