You want clout then here's the way that you would have to do this, and its the only way this works.
You find all of the richest gun control advocates that you can find. You have them reach out of as many victims as you can and get them to sign off on the idea of a gun control lobby group.
You then have to go out and lobby for support in every city in every state and fund raise like crazy to show that this is a serious movement.
Supposedly the NRA only spends about 3 to 4 million bucks a year on lobbying and campaign support. Who knows if that's true, or what happens behind the scenes.
Anyways, you get the what I call ANRA (Anti National Riflemens association), to spend 10 times that amount of public advertising, campaign contributions, lobbying.
You reach out to every senator or congressmen that's in any kind of danger of losing a election, and you flat out give them money, and campaign expertise.
The wheels of change is always going to be based around money.
Basically if you want to get gun control, you have to buy as many people on both sides of the aisle as popular, and you have to spend a bunch of money on public education and advertising as possible to ensure that the president realizes that if he veto's any passed gun control bill that he'll be facing the wrath of the ANRA and the voters.
In other words, you have to buy Congress and the Senate, oh and the State Legislatures.
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