Old Dog
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CoalTrain49, I-594 passed here WITH the support of thousands of gun owners. I didn't talk to many gun owners prior to the election who'd actually read through the measure, understood its implications, and compared it to the competing measure.
Frankly, at this point, I don't think we have enough gun owners intelligent enough, with the reading and critical thinking abilities, to impact any potential legislation should it become imminent. Certainly, we didn't get out and campaign effectively in Washington. The proponents of this measure were everywhere, handing out brochures to soccer moms at the grocery stores, while the anti-594 folks handed out propaganda at ... gun shops and gun shows.
All the "we will not comply" folks here simply made us look like cretins, and there was little effort to educate the voters who mattered (the non-gun owners, the fence-sitters and the people who might have listened) -- all the gun organizations here did was preach to the choir (and the choir still didn't listen).
I can't for the life of me think of an effective strategy to temper potential UBC legislation that would get past the average non-gun owner, mostly because we, the RKBA crowd, can't seem to get organized enough and use the anti-gun folks' tactics against them. On the surface, UBCs would seem to Joe Citizen to be a good thing, because Joe Citizen isn't going to see past "helping to keep guns out of the hands of those that shouldn't own them."
Frankly, at this point, I don't think we have enough gun owners intelligent enough, with the reading and critical thinking abilities, to impact any potential legislation should it become imminent. Certainly, we didn't get out and campaign effectively in Washington. The proponents of this measure were everywhere, handing out brochures to soccer moms at the grocery stores, while the anti-594 folks handed out propaganda at ... gun shops and gun shows.
All the "we will not comply" folks here simply made us look like cretins, and there was little effort to educate the voters who mattered (the non-gun owners, the fence-sitters and the people who might have listened) -- all the gun organizations here did was preach to the choir (and the choir still didn't listen).
I can't for the life of me think of an effective strategy to temper potential UBC legislation that would get past the average non-gun owner, mostly because we, the RKBA crowd, can't seem to get organized enough and use the anti-gun folks' tactics against them. On the surface, UBCs would seem to Joe Citizen to be a good thing, because Joe Citizen isn't going to see past "helping to keep guns out of the hands of those that shouldn't own them."
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