Thanks, Tim, for the thoughtful reply. Sorry to have posted a question and then gone out of town, like that.
I'm glad you said what you did. In my own experience, some of the graphics at a-human-right have provoked the most thought. When people actually think about it, engage their brains, they seem to shake off the cobwebs. The pat gun control answers ring hollow and don't seem to make as much sense in the face of stark scenarios. They can't help but project themselves into what they see.
What will it take for our country to recognize the ORIGINAL INTENT of the Second Amendment? Frankly, I don't think it will happen until we are again faced with a threat on our own soil, against which our standing military and para-military units are inadequate. Or, the darkest of dark thoughts, almost too difficult to ponder, until we are faced with a government we can no longer accept, and realize that we need to be as well-armed as our military and police. Of course, if we are talking original intent, then we must consider that the men who drafted it had personal knowledge of a time when the country had little or no standing army, when the Crown sought to confiscate the public stores of black powder kept for the common defense of its subjects, when every man needed to be as well armed as his adversary. And yet, the RKBA was a subject of debate even in the 1780's between those who remembered and those among the elite who already felt threatened by an armed populace.
Ask the citizens who had to defend their homes against the French, the Indians, the Rebel or Union raiders. Ask the pioneers who had to defend their homesteads in the absence of the army and local lawmen. They got it. Ask those who had to defend their homes and businesses in the riots of Memphis and Los Angeles. Ask those who come from behind the Iron Curtain. Ask those who are faced with the reality of choosing between fighting and being a good witness while they wait for the police. They get it. But for the country to come around, as a whole, the country will have to be in that position, I think. Until we are again faced with the necessity of taking up arms, it will not be perceived by most as a...necessity.
Don't get me wrong. Your goals are worthy. I think you will reach those who are willing to listen and able to think. Some, perhaps the majority, will not accept the truth until they have no choice and are forced, though, perhaps too late. Still, we have no choice but to do what we may.