People should be trained in “defensive” use of firearms.
Lots of people know how to shoot but not a lot of people know when to shoot and not.
Municipalities are the first line of defense. There are already disaster readiness citizen groups which teach people how to respond in a natural disaster. They volunteer to leave their families to help with the town’s defense.
Knowing how a natural disaster group works and doesn’t work (ie central assistance place vs neighborhood eyes and ears) would help people know how to be eyes and ears for police and their swat teams. (Even some small cities have swat or tactical teams now.)
One thing often overlooked which occurred in Israel this week, is that cell phone signals were jammed, so walkie-talkies and maybe ham radio operators would be needed.
People should have walkie talkies and agree on which channels to use within a neighborhood. However, cheap walkie talkies have only a few channels, easy to scan for chatter.
Your plan for everyone to send the same letter is not a good one. One thing legislators hate is what they see as a rubber stamped carbon copy campaign orchestrated by one person.
Sure, people can read your letter, but by applying a little bit of thought, they can write their own letter integrating things they may have seen that you have not.
If legislators have a pile of 1,000 of the SAME letters on their desk, they bin them and put the figure 1 next to it. And they consider 1,000 of the same letter a gross waste of their time. So if a campaign is to be useful, every letter has to be differently thoughtful, even if it might mention some of the same things.
Hi Jeff- If you subscribe to Turleys substack can you (or someone else) post a link here? I tried to find it searching his name on substack and no luck. I’d like to follow it.
IMPORTANT ERRATA:
— Governor DeSantis' correct email address is GovernorRon.Desantis@eog.myflorida.com. I left out the 'eog' (now fixed).
Got my note and a copy of your letter done and sent. Cc’d you. Hope he gets thousands of messages from the C & C crowd. 👊
To get logistical about it,
People should be trained in “defensive” use of firearms.
Lots of people know how to shoot but not a lot of people know when to shoot and not.
Municipalities are the first line of defense. There are already disaster readiness citizen groups which teach people how to respond in a natural disaster. They volunteer to leave their families to help with the town’s defense.
Knowing how a natural disaster group works and doesn’t work (ie central assistance place vs neighborhood eyes and ears) would help people know how to be eyes and ears for police and their swat teams. (Even some small cities have swat or tactical teams now.)
One thing often overlooked which occurred in Israel this week, is that cell phone signals were jammed, so walkie-talkies and maybe ham radio operators would be needed.
People should have walkie talkies and agree on which channels to use within a neighborhood. However, cheap walkie talkies have only a few channels, easy to scan for chatter.
Your plan for everyone to send the same letter is not a good one. One thing legislators hate is what they see as a rubber stamped carbon copy campaign orchestrated by one person.
Sure, people can read your letter, but by applying a little bit of thought, they can write their own letter integrating things they may have seen that you have not.
If legislators have a pile of 1,000 of the SAME letters on their desk, they bin them and put the figure 1 next to it. And they consider 1,000 of the same letter a gross waste of their time. So if a campaign is to be useful, every letter has to be differently thoughtful, even if it might mention some of the same things.
I sent an email with a few comments. I have the feeling he is going to get a lot!
Hi Jeff- If you subscribe to Turleys substack can you (or someone else) post a link here? I tried to find it searching his name on substack and no luck. I’d like to follow it.
Thanks for the address update. Sent from Montgomery, Al
Hi, Sharon!
Is it “. Com” or “. Gov”?
Agree PH. And maybe my sheriff?