How would you handle this?

[horsemen61]

Hey everyone,


So to get to my job and go Home I pass a stretch of Road here in Springfield Mo ,and I see this sign. At first I wanted to rip it down but the more I thought about it the more I realized I Just want to speak to whoever put it up. What did the sign say I’m glad you asked it said “Love Children Not Guns Ban Assault weapons”


I would really just like to see what their thoughts on the matter where why they put up the sign and ask them honestly if they ever considered the fact that weapons are inanimate objects A Person Must make them functional


So I ask you

What would you do/say if you were in my shoes?

mods I feel this is gun related can we please try to make this thread work

 

[Styx]

Hey everyone,


So to get to my job and go Home I pass a stretch of Road here in Springfield Mo ,and I see this sign. At first I wanted to rip it down but the more I thought about it the more I realized I Just want to speak to whoever put it up. What did the sign say I’m glad you asked it said “Love Children Not Guns Ban Assault weapons”


I would really just like to see what their thoughts on the matter where why they put up the sign and ask them honestly if they ever considered the fact that weapons are inanimate objects A Person Must make them functional


So I ask you

What would you do/say if you were in my shoes?

mods I feel this is gun related can we please try to make this thread work

Keep driving. They have the right to their opinion, it's none of your business, and not your place to interrogate them over their constitutional right to express their opinion.

You have about as much chance of changing their option about guns they have to change yours. Plus, you already know what ever "logic" or rhetoric they're going to say to support their opinion. It won't be anything you haven't heard before.

Use that energy to contact your city, state, and federal representatives instead.

 

[Roverguy]

It is a thoughtless banality and, as per above, an exercise of first amendment rights. It may be a banal idiocy but they have every right to express it. The second amendment will never be secured by infringing on the first.

 

[21H40]

If you know them then you might be able to have a discussion starting with common ground issues like "let's find ways to make schools a safe place for children."

Otherwise, just enjoy the example of them living their 1A freedom because no discussions with a stranger will change anyone's views on guns.

 

[Hartkopf]

Put up your own sign right after theirs that says, “raise your children with morals so they become responsible gun owners.”

 

[Taurus 617 CCW]

I wouldn’t bother talking to them. They are either entrenched in their belief (enough to hang a sign saying so) or have been personally affected by guns in a negative way in the past. Either way you aren’t going to change their mind. If they approached you asking your opinion it would be a different story. Save your energy for a better cause.

 

[.38 Special]

It's offensive and intentionally so. Of course, people have the right to be offensive, and we do not have the right not to be offended. At any rate, it's extremely unlikely that anyone's mind is changed by it, so I consider it the moral equivalent of someone giving passing motorists the finger: pointless, irremediable, and worth ignoring completely.

 

[LiveLife]

in Springfield Mo ... I see this sign ... “Love Children Not Guns Ban Assault weapons”

What would you do/say if you were in my shoes?

Be glad I live in a free country where people have the right to free speech.

What would you expect supporters of MADD to do when they see "Dads Against Mad Mothers" sign?

Or supporters of ERA to do when they see "Men Going Their Own Way" sign?

Or fans of 1911 to do when they see "Glock Perfection" sign?

Nothing.

 

[Hartkopf]

have been personally affected by guns in a negative way in the past.

I was negatively affected by a gun once. I quickly sold that jamming piece of crap.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Ignore it for the virtue signaling that it is.
Like the liquor store down in Lawrence that just put the circle slash no guns allowed signs on the doors. It means nothing but helps their "feelings". Just pass them by...

 

[kwb377]

I would have passed it by and thought, "Huh,...morons", and went about my day...probably would have forgotten about it by the time I got home. And if I had remembered, I probably wouldn't take the time to type it out on an internet forum.

Wanting to rip it down? That just reinforces their belief of, "That person definitely shouldn't be allowed to own a gun."

 

[Electricmo]

I live in Springfield. Where did you see that sign?

 

[Meeks36]

If you engage, you will enrage them. If and a big IF you can locate them. Best thing to is have a conversation about the weather first. Be friendly and slowly work in to firearms. And see if they would be willing to take a trip to the range with you. Might convert them, might not. Best way to do things imo. Heated debates get nowhere. An afternoon of shooting 22s might.

 

[PistoleroWadcutterGANG]

Forget it and drive on by. Very little chance the progenitor would be open to civil discourse about it. Maybe write up your thoughts about the whole thing and send it into a paper / editorial submission. That way you get a catharsis of thoughts and avoid a situation where the person maybe really trying to jam a person up with a he said she said or worse altercation. you don't need that in your life. (Thank you for thinking and standing up for gun owners' perspective and rights)

 

[horsemen61]

I live in Springfield. Where did you see that sign?

On Kansas Expressway

 

[jtrent]

I live in Springfield. Where did you see that sign?

East side of Kansas expressway just south of College. Not far from Cherokee Firearms.

 

[horsemen61]

I would have passed it by and thought, "Huh,...morons", and went about my day...probably would have forgotten about it by the time I got home. And if I had remembered, I probably wouldn't take the time to type it out on an internet forum.

Wanting to rip it down? That just reinforces their belief of, "That person definitely shouldn't be allowed to own a gun."

It was a Kneejerk reaction that made it no farther than between my ears yes on one hand the sign did trouble me I’ve since taken the time to think about it and I’m Not Saying they Shouldn’t Have The right to Put up Said sign it just got me thinking I would love to Have a constructive conversation with them about it remember people that are on the Fence see this to and I would like to be able to show them through logic reason and facts that the sign is silly yes I understand I could just keep driving but that doesn’t help our Cause now does it?

 

[Artg56]

Past experience has taught me that engaging a anti over their views is almost always a futile exercise, they are rarely interested in a meaningful conversation.

 

[snowman357]

The child in me thinks spray their yard with round up. I would do nothing its their opinion and I try not to talk to any idiots that I dont have too. Most likely if they made a sign to put in their yard no logic or reasoning will change their mind.

 

[GBExpat]

... What would you do/say if you were in my shoes? ...

Nothing.

 

[kidneyboy]

What would you do/say if you were in my shoes?

Remind myself that Missouri is an open carry state and move on.

 

[jmr40]

Take another route to work if you can't ignore it.

 

[IWAC]

It was a Kneejerk reaction that made it no farther than between my ears yes on one hand the sign did trouble me I’ve since taken the time to think about it and I’m Not Saying they Shouldn’t Have The right to Put up Said sign it just got me thinking I would love to Have a constructive conversation with them about it remember people that are on the Fence see this to and I would like to be able to show them through logic reason and facts that the sign is silly yes I understand I could just keep driving but that doesn’t help our Cause now does it?

If the "Gun Problem" could be discussed constructively, with facts and logic, (which will never happen) in our sissified society, it would disappear in about two weeks!

 

[Riomouse911]

I grew up in Berkeley. Compared to what I was surrounded with every day, if that single sign bothered you your head would’ve popped like a firework seeing all the political hooha there.

The magic of the US is I can put my Leupold and NRA benefactor sticker on my car and park it next to a Prius with “Coexist” and a “Feel the Bern” stickers on it. We would be on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but just like the creators of that sign we are all Americans.

My prescription; Go buy a case of ammo and enjoy your 2nd rights this weekend.

Stay safe.

 

[AlexanderA]

Ignore it.

"Signs don't vote." As I pointed out in other threads, the antigunners are flailing mindlessly these days, as they're realizing that their message is not getting through. Prepare to see more such signs, and more acting out, in the coming months. They're getting desperate.