by Justin Thyme
a GSL member
Here we are again, a brand new year. What will we do with it? What will you do with it? We do not get many re-dos in this life.
New Year’s is a great time for restarting – or making real changes to improve one’s life. For some it might be a lifestyle change to go to the gym and eat healthier.
Of course 2024 brings us an election with life-changing implications. With that in mind, do you know the names of your state and federal representatives and senators? You can find this online at the Illinois State Board of Elections website.
Once you know who they are, you should help them learn who you are. Visit their offices and introduce yourself to their staffers. Make time to attend their community events as a constituent. Visit your local city council and/or county board meetings as time allows. Meet every elected official you can and help them understand the truth about guns so they can be better, smarter politicians.
Hopefully your efforts will help influence their decision-making prior to their votes. Praise your politicians for good votes and give them some polite feedback for bad votes.
Don’t know how to run a computer to help keep tabs on them? No worries. You’re not alone. I struggle with them myself. If you need technical help, recruit your kids or grandchildren to help you. Have they already left Illinois? Ask the neighbor kids for help. They may enjoy helping, and by doing so, you can use it as a teachable moment. Encourage them to support liberty by opposing gun control schemes and other government control. We need to progress toward a future of freedom, not a system that reenacts past tyrannies.
We all know people who have fled the once prosperous Land of Lincoln for greener pastures.
Illinois can become great again, but citizens will have stand up for freedom for that to happen.
Don’t forget political candidates. Help them figure out what changes we can do to more fully take advantage of the ideals voiced in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Volunteer to help the really good candidates.
Just as important, work to help your friends, neighbors and coworkers to understand the truth about guns. Assuming, of course, they haven’t already figured out the proven benefits of firearm ownership and bought their own first gun in the past few years.
Though I cannot promise you a happier New Year, you will have a happier New Year knowing that you’ve done some things to help preserve the freedoms bequeathed to us from previous generations.
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