Great gun fact and talking point resources

[Mexican_Hippie]

When I'm advising clients on transforming parts of their organizations we spend a good deal of time on communications. Whether or not we like it, we NEED to explain ourselves with more than rhetoric and hubris.

We need to win over people who don't think like us right now. The words we choose matter, and the words that work for us may not be the same words that work for others. Some of us need coaching on the right words, and some of us know that we just aren't great at articulating our points and want to direct people to a resource.

Its important that we connect with people in a way that resonates with THEM not US.

We are the 2nd amendment ambassadors. I thought it would be worthwhile to compile a centralized list of resources to help ourselves think through talking points BEFORE we engage in those conversations. Different videos and materials may also resonate with different types of people you know. Please post up any resources you think have good information or appeal to different groups so we can all refer to them.

I'll try to add any additions to this initial post to keep it in one spot.

Web
Gunfacts.info (VERY complete)
http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/6.1/gun_facts_6_1_screen.pdf

Guns Save Lives - Stories of Self Defense

AlwaysBeCarrying - (Self Defense Stories)

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl.../convrates.htm (CHL conviction rates)

Some good gun quotes:
GUN CONTROL - 210 quotations divided into 8 sections.

Video
Amidst The Noise - YouTube
MrColionNoir Gun Channel - YouTube
You Can't Ban Evil - YouTube
Innocents Betrayed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmKT43j4Tc

Communications Tips
10 Rules for Successful Communication:
Bunch Translate: Words That Work: The 10 Rules of Communication

21 Words That Work
21 Words for the 21st Century- from Author Frank Luntz «

 

[AngeliaH]

Thank you.

 

[General Zod]

Excellent resources. Thanks.

 

[London]

I used gunssavelives and the TX DPS websites to back up some of my claims in a debate with a stubborn old dlady last week. I also told her to look this up in case she didn't believe tyrranny was a realistic threat:


Innocents Betrayed:
[video]www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmKT43j4Tc[/video]

 

[metastar]

There's lots of science between the choice of words. NLP is a subject I'm looking to investigate. I see it's use is fairly common in the MSM. Thanks for the gunfacts link.

10 Rules for Successful Communication:
Bunch Translate: Words That Work: The 10 Rules of Communication

21 Words That Work
21 Words for the 21st Century- from Author Frank Luntz «

Some good gun quotes:
GUN CONTROL - 210 quotations divided into 8 sections.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

10 Rules for Successful Communication:
Bunch Translate: Words That Work: The 10 Rules of Communication

Rule 10 contradicts Barbara Minto's communication methodology. Not sure which I agree with.

 

[txinvestigator]

Mexican_Hippie, great thread and post. Thank you

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Mexican_Hippie, great thread and post. Thank you

Like my wife says...every once in a while I get something right, lol