Thank God and the Founding Fathers that we don't have a Democracy. We have a Constitutional Republic made up of 50 separate Constitutional Republics.
Otherwise, we'd have been dead and gone many moons ago. It is exceedingly hard to make change in this country when the people and the States are divided; even when they are all in agreement change requires many years to accomplish.
We need to start the looooong slog of pushing back to get where we want to be. It's not going to be easy. We've had the easy part, and the state we're in is the result of that. The other side has been working tirelessly at making change, from a place that they hated to the point we are at. Now it's our turn to fret and push and fight for the way we want to go.
Unless you want to overthrow the government by force via a civil war. I don't. The chances of us winning are small, the chances of millions of people dying is high, and the result is completely unpredictable.
You wanna fight? Ya gotta start from where we are and not where we wanna be. Ya gotta start finding the people we can and turn them to our cause.
Find "populist" arguments that resonate with people. Play the race/money/power cards; show them how the law abiding people in the inner cities are being denied their civil rights by the left. Show them how their police chief is denying them the right to protect their children and their spouse. Show them how the rich people in the suburbs mostly have no problems, and how the law is discriminating against them because of where they live, and probably because of the color of their skin.
When making less direct appeals, stop arguing "facts" with the left and start arguing from the heart, talk about impact, show the horror of a woman cowering with her baby children in her attic as several attackers are lurking. Show them the raped woman who wasn't allowed to take her defense with her on campus. And when the time is right, show them the pictures of the Jews being herded into trains en masse with just a handful of Nazi guards watching over them. Then show them pictures of the internment camps in Buchenwald with the prisoners looking out of the barbed wire, and morph that into the internment camps in Montana with American Citizens of Japanese descent looking out from behind barbed wire.
Get people licensed. Get a gun in their hands and you've got a voter. Heck from their experience, one gun might get us 5 or 6 votes.
Then you can turn around our Constitutional Republic.
ETA: And stop running around yelling "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!" It means NOTHING to anyone outside of our group. NOTHING. You might as well be yelling "GO TEAM". It is meaningless noise to them; not only do most of the people not understand the meaning of the word "infringed," the phrase doesn't carry any emotional weight with them as it does to you.
We've gotta find a better phrase, along the lines of the "for the children" mentality, a phrase that can transmit an emotional message that is ours.
