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CITIZENS OF AMERICA
http://www.citizensofamerica.org History
COA founded by activists who also
founded the Lawyers Second Amendment Society and the website GunTruths.com (a 2A
activist resource site).
Everything COA has achieved so far has been
done on a very minimal budget, financed completely by donations from
individuals.
Staff
The two people most responsible for COA
operations are veterans of both the gun rights war and of the public
communications arena.
COA Creative Director Jim Houck has
worked for the largest ad agencies in the world, on some of the largest accounts
in the world. Manipulating public opinion and perception is his only
business. And attempting to inform or shape the opinion of the public is a large
part the writing I’ve done (opinion columns appeared semi-regularly in a major
newspaper; Second Amendment and gun-related writing published in numerous
national magazines and posted widely on the internet).
COA’s unique mission
Even with the NRA receiving about 115
million dollars every year and even with its membership at historic highs, the
last six years have seen some of the most far- reaching and restrictive gun laws
in our history passed.
The reason—because no gun rights group has
taken on the formidable task of propagandizing aggressively to the general
public—which is exactly how the government, communications media, and anti-gun
groups have swayed the public to accept massive rights infringements.
COA is doing what gun owners have continually
begged for—it is reaching out and communicating with the general public.
The Results
Judging by their reception—positive from gun
owners and negative from the anti-gunners—our ads are very good at delivering
the message gun owners want sent to the rest of America.
So good that people are:
·
paying
out of their own pockets to run our ads in their locale,
·
placing
the ads—or links to them—on their own pro-2A websites,
·
sending
out COA updates and notices on their own email lists
·
volunteering
(via our new program) to be the collection points for pooling funds to run ads
in their own cities
·
volunteering
not just money but time, skill, and services to help us
·
lining up
for our first print ads to appear so they can pay to put them in newspapers and
other publications.
·
calling
radio talk show and requesting that they interview us, which has resulted in Jim
and I giving 11 talk show interviews in the last 3 months (since Oct.) with more
scheduled. Some of these interviews were nationally syndicated shows (Steve
Wolf’s Crime Talk, Tom Gresham’s Gun
Talk, Jeff Rense’s Sightings,
Ron Engelmans Engelman Overnight)
·
Finally,
radio station managers are calling and asking for the ads so that they can run
them free of charge as public service announcements Why is this
happening?
Again, because COA is meeting a very long-held
and very desperate need of the gun rights and pro-freedom segment of US
society—propagandizing to and educating the general public. And we aim
to actually convert people to our side and actually turn them against people
who propose gun control.
COA’s ads are effective because we do
exactly what HCI, the Violence Policy Center, Sarah Brady, Josh Sugarmann,
Clinton, and the rest of our other enemies do to us—go
for the emotional jugular.
Of course we don’t speak only to the
emotions of the public, but any reasoning power required by our ads is very
fundamental. We avoid trying to convince the public with history, abstract
logic, or tradition—we reach them on a personal and emotional level.
COA has a backlog of print, radio, and
television ad ideas that target every group of Americans.
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