This is great! As an NRA member I was able to contact my reps to encourage them to continue safeguarding my constitutionally-protected civil rights! :)
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@crispinheneise It's amazing how little the NRA spends on lobbying in comparison to others like Google who spent $16,830,000. To think that they have some ironclad control with their lobbying power over congress is ridiculous.
@crispinheneise The right to bear arms is an important one - but the right to bear a semi-automatic weapon with minimal effort...I don't consider that a civil right but rather a civil disgrace.
@abe_storey@crispinheneise And that's the glory of living in America :) We all have the right to share our views. I was taught at a very early age how to use firearms responsibly and believe that's how they should be used... responsibly. I also believe that ill-minded people should not use them, but that's the problem... they are "ill-minded" and will find a way to obtain them, whether by illegal means or otherwise. If there's a will, there's a way!
@morroworks@crispinheneise I agree! America is an amazing place because every person is able to share their views. Together, we're able to create an amazingly diverse group of people and thoughts. I absolutely understand and respect your upbringing. I simply believe that there's still more work to do for gun reform.
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It'd be really awesome if you could break down the 2014 gun violence statistics into felons vs. non-felons. I'd like to see what percentage of these gun violence statistics are caused by people already breaking current gun laws. Or would that be too polarizing and take away from the point you are attempting to make (that guns are bad)?
@parkeragee I don’t know if that data is readily available, but I mostly wanted to add that section to the site to show people that the NRA funding does make a difference, and that it’s a real problem (with 12,591 deaths, it’s no longer easily dismissible). There are other websites for exploring gun violence, but here I thought some basic statistics would be better. Thanks for the feedback though :)
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This looks awesome! I don't live in the US, so I'm not your target audience, so take my advice into consideration to whatever extent is useful to you.
I've always heard that calling your legislator has way more effect than sending them email, so I would emphasize the phone button more, as a clear call to action. Also, you're showing the legislators who receive NRA funding in red, but why not also show them first in the list? I'd show them, sorted by the amount of funding they receive.
@_bigblind Thanks for that feedback! It's true, highlighting the phone more might be good. As for the sorting, you're probably right—it's just alphabetically right now.
Pretty cool! There has been some discussion that providing open data is useless, because it doesn't change anything, but you've pretty much solved that. You're focusing on one issue (NRA funding, which is pretty important) and you're providing an immediate action (phone, tweet or contact your representative). Good work!
My only complain would be the design. Wouldn't it be a bit better not to have everything on one page, but instead only bring up the relevant politicians for a search? You might also want to put the funding and the makers of the project in the footer, so that the user is immediately (and always) confronted with the field to look up their address.
Other than that, amazing.
@laef Thanks so much! Re: the design. Perhaps. I thought the primary use was for people to explore where this funding is going, and the address search was more for people to jump down and see if *their* Congresspeople got funding, but assumed they’d want to scroll around a bit or see if a specific person they’d heard about gun funded. The page does get pretty long 😜—appreciate the comments though!
@lachlanjc You might want to just have a View All button which would then go to a page with everything. Long pages (even good looking ones) can be pretty daunting!
Hello Product Hunt! NRA Funded is a site on which you can see where the NRA’s Congressional funding ($3,360,000 on federal lobbying in 2014) is going. You can search for your address to see if your Congresspeople are being funded, and explore other districts and states as well. I’ve pulled out some statistics on the funding at the top, as well as what gun violence is doing to the country.
Read more: https://medium.com/@lachlanjc/an...
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