HetchHetchy
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What are the THREE PRIMARY REASONS why the Anti-2A Camp so often seems to be more successful at its mission than the Pro-2A Camp?
Because it's easy to frame and sell a position, when you aren't constrained by the truth
Well, you don't have to buy it.No sale. Sounds nice, but no sale.
I don't believe anyone out funds the NRA.I would have added that the anti-gun groups have much better funding. Bloomberg and Soros spend lots more money than the pro-gun groups have to spend. We are out spent by a factor of 10 or more.
No sale. Sounds nice, but no sale.
Yup...the old saw holds true; A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Because it's easy to frame and sell a position, when you aren't constrained by the truth
I don't think you can narrow it down to any three "primary reasons..."
For the longest time, Tom Gresham pointed out to folks that there were many Democrats that are gun owners, and we should be careful about alienating them.
A few months ago he changed his stance, stating with the current political climate and HRC's candidacy...well, if you're a Democrat (voting Democratic) you're not for the 2nd Amendment.
He stated he was sorry, but that's just the way it is...
Part of our problem is that we mistake our own internal propaganda for marketing. But the rest of the country does not get the wit and witticism of Ted Nugent.
Another problem for us is that we are essentially selling a personal liberty as part of the Conservative platform - which is generally and historically not much for defending personal liberties. It is difficult to make a coherent message of "firearms for all" when we are simultaneously backing police as part of the "law and order" tradition, and those police by training, policy and public statement hate guns.
It would make a lot more sense if the NRA was publicly critical every time the police shot a man because they thought there was a gun. But we get real quiet every time a fellow gun owner is killed by police without firing a shot.
Because we don't do anything to help ourselves, except make pronouncements and preach to ourselves. You can't fight the legislative process by not legislating.
And, we don't have a coherent message.
It sounds like we have nothing to worry about, then. Carry on.If you only read Die Volkischer Beobachter and the Mainichi Shimbun in December 1944, you'd think that Germany and Japan were winning the war.
We can't stop the anti-gun cult from believing its own propaganda. That doesn't me WE have to believe it.
Part of our problem is that we mistake our own internal propaganda for marketing. But the rest of the country does not get the wit and witticism of Ted Nugent.
Another problem for us is that we are essentially selling a personal liberty as part of the Conservative platform - which is generally and historically not much for defending personal liberties. It is difficult to make a coherent message of "firearms for all" when we are simultaneously backing police as part of the "law and order" tradition, and those police by training, policy and public statement hate guns.