This kinda all came together in a quick hurry. I am also one for more transparency in what the BoD does, but we had to move on this quickly in order to have the boards up, not only during the holiday season, but also to coincide with the National Guns Save Lives Day Campaign- jointly sponsored by pro gun groups, including the good ol NFOA!
National Guns Save Lives Day will be on Bill of Rights Day and is an effort to counter president Obama’s Organizing For Action exploitation of the anniversary to the tragic Newtown school shooting to push his anti-gun rights agenda - See more at:gunssavelivesday.com . So you see, we had to act fast. Overhauling the design, finding and approving available locations, and amount of dollars to allocate took up enough time as it was. And anyway, folks were wanting us to spend some of that War Chest we had built up- thanks to the generosity of our great members!
We wanted to make our contribution our own and came up with this original design that not only supported the ideals of NGSLD, but also also our own issues within our state. ( Senator Christensen's Teacher Carry bill just happens to fall right into place - awesome timing). We can apply this to many legislative battles we may encounter.
Since things fell as they did, we ran a bit of a teaser on the FaceBook page with a contest , the first pic(s) posted with location won/wins a free Official NFOA T-Shirt. So who was paying attention? Situational Awareness? (I have already found all the Lincoln sites- of course I knew the locations so I was ineligible - I have to buy my own shirt
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How can you help make this campaign live up to everything we hope it can?
Right now we are asking our Social Media fans to change their Profile/ Cover photos to the sign. As we all know from the Outlet Mall fiasco- we can make things go viral in a quick hurry.
We need to push this all the way through to the holidays.
This all makes for a great conversation starter with Friends, Family, Coworkers, etc. Have the talk, urge them to check out the NFOA , join the conversations and share their stories with us.
And if anyone would like to make an extra donation to help with the costs associated with this, by all means feel free to do so.
I'll throw this question out there: Who would like bumper stickers similar to the billboards? What would you be willing to pay? $2? $5? Business owners- Would you be willing to sale these items with all monies coming back to the NFOA?
