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Overview
of Liberty Letters
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Our Mission
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What We Do
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Why We Do It
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About Liberty Letters
Team
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Contact Liberty Letters
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Submit your Liberty Letters
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Liberty
Letters Archives
Mission
Statement
Our Mission is...
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to provide an outlet for pro-gun-rights
writers and thinkers to share their work with
like-minded people;
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to stimulate letter-writing within the
liberty advocacy community;
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to build an archive of categorized letters
for use by activists who wish to save time and
thus be more effective by reusing effective
letters; and
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to expand the cause of gun rights and liberty
advocacy by producing a much larger number of
letters being submitted for publication to
mainstream media outlets.
What
We Do
We receive
letters written to legislators and other public
officials, editors of newspapers and other
publications and publish them in a cohesive
archive for later use by the people who read this
website.
Why
We Do It
The reasons we
launched this Team includes but is not limited to
the following...
• Good writers
deserve to be heard.
• Good letters
can be reused, especially by those who don't
enjoy writing letters but would gladly reuse
letters written by others.
• Many
mainstream media outlets shun pro-gun-rights
letters. Increasing the volume of such letters
by reusing those published on our site may
help change that pattern.
• Many people
send us great letters, and we finally realized
that an intelligent system was in order to
make the letters count for more than
"today's human interest."
• We've had many
requests that we do something of this nature
-- and here it is.
About Liberty Letters Team
This
KeepAndBearArms.com Team is in its early stages of
development. Richard Beamis is the Director, and
he is currently seeking an Assistant Director. If
you have interest in contributing as a volunteer
teammate, please contact
Richard.
Contact
Liberty Letters
• Before you make
contact, please know that the volume of emails we
receive is often intimidating. Please make certain
that your question is not already answered in our Frequently
Asked Questions section or elsewhere on this
page.
• Please also make sure that any submissions
to our Liberty Letters archives fall within Submission
Guidelines.
• PLEASE DO NOT
this email address to ANY distribution lists without
express written permission to do so. Thank
you!
Director,
Richard Beamis
Letters@KeepAndBearArms.com
Frequently
Asked Questions
What
are the criteria for submitting letters to be
published on this website?
Read the Submission
Guidelines for your answer.
How
often do you publish letters submitted to your
site?
As we refine our
systems, you will begin to see letters published 5
days a week, sometimes several letters each day.
As we are a volunteer team, we reserve the right
to take a break from time to time and thank you in
advance for your understanding and patience.
Submission
Guidelines
Submitting to
Liberty Letters is very simple. When you email a
letter to a public servant, an editor of a
newspaper or elsewhere, you simply send a copy of
your letter to us -- and adhere to Submission
Guidelines below:
IF
YOU WANT YOUR LETTER TO BE PUBLISHED...
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Our "Letters to Editors" email
address is ONLY for use when copying us on letters
you've sent to the editors of other news sources,
to legislators, to pro-gun or anti-gun individuals
or organizations, etc.
This
is NOT the place to send feedback about
KeepAndBearArms.com. REPEAT: This email address is
SOLELY a place to receive pro-RKBA letters that
have been sent to others.
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We will ONLY print letters that involve the right
of the people to keep and bear arms or a closely
related subject.
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We will ONLY print letters that are edited and
ready for publication.
That includes spelling
(use spell checker), reasonably sensible grammar,
paragraphed thought progression, etc.
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We reserve the right to edit letters sent to us if
we deem it necessary to do so.
Such
editing could include the removal of inappropriate
language or in cases where the letter is a
thousand words too long. (Most editors won't
publish a letters longer than 750 words, and some
of them have submission guidelines limited to a
third of that, or less.)
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We do not guarantee that sending a letter to us
means that it will be published.
If we print
it we print it; if we don't, we don't.
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If your letter does not include your full name and
email address and the header that shows it was
already sent to its original destination, chances
are good that it will not be published.
If
the Founding Fathers of this great nation could
sign their name to the Declaration of Independence
knowing it would mark them for death, you can sign
your name to a letter to the editor. If you
disagree, go publish anonymously somewhere else,
and drop back by when your backbone matures.
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If your letter to an editor is in response to an
online article or publication, PLEASE include the
website address of that article so others can go
read it and write their own letter if so inclined.
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PLEASE include the full header of your emailed
letter if you sent it through email.
Having
the date and time you submitted it plus proof that
it was actually sent provides online documentation
that can and eventually will be used confront
editors of other news agencies that refuse to
print the gun owner's side of the story. And
having the email address to which your letter was
sent allows readers to quickly follow your lead.
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DO NOT submit your letters in all caps.
If
you write in all caps, dump the text into a text
editor and change it to "sentence case"
before sending it.
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DO NOT add the "Letters" email address
below to any distribution lists, not now or ever.
If
you do, it will be considered unsolicited email
and treated as such. We have enough to do without
having to get 10 copies of every email on the
internet that has the word "gun" in it.
:-)
FIRE
AWAY
To submit a letter you've written to an editor, to
a writer, to a legislator, or to anyone else in
defense of the right of the people to keep and
bear arms, follow ALL of the guidelines above, and
send it here: Letters@KeepAndBearArms.com
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