Groups who seek power through the legislative or litigation process do so through the use of victims as evidence of their plight. They actually need victims as leverage to attain that power.
Anti-firearms groups are the biggest users of victims. The ADL, Gay groups, et al are anti-firearms because they also need victims as their main course of leverage. The ADL eschews the likes of
Mordechai Anielewich and perish the thought of a healty Matthew Shepard standing over the prostrate bodies of his intended perpetrators. A person who can stand up for themselves and avoid victimhood is of no use whatsoever in the attainment of the goal. The agenda will whither on the vine without victims.
So the best, surest, and easiest way to "recruit" victims is to convince them, without their cognizant knowledge, that they must allow themselves to be placed in the position of becoming a victim. There is no call for willing victims to be shot as an example of the devastation that firearms are able to produce. They simply recruit the willing who are convinced that self-defense is an evil trait that is reserved for the <fill in the blank> types of people; and we wouldn't want to be like <dripping with condescension>THEM</dripping with condescension>, now; would we?
They are told that firearms, and their use as a self-defense tool, is immoral. They are told that the firearm will simply be taken from them and used against them. They are told that firearms are an ineffective tool for self defense. And here's the kicker. They are told that in light of the "facts" presented above, they should do exactly as the perpetrator(s) say and give them anything they want. The person who does the preceding has a name; and that name is
VICTIM.
Criminals prey on the weak and ignorant and the groups which seek power supply them with plenty of people who fit that apt description. They turn them out like puppy mills. They beat the drum of ignorance in their ears at a steady cadence in the finest tradition of Fritz Lange's 1927 classic "Metropolis".
Always remember. Victims are manufactured. They are not created naturally -- cowards are. They are turned out at frightening rates by willing propagandists whose goal is to enslave them in a far worse way than the criminals ever envisioned. And what is the chant of these victims? Disarm! Ban guns! Guns are bad! Carry a cell phone! The police will protect us!
Peace through concensus or appeasment has never been achieved at any time in world history -- not with tyrants and not with criminals -- yet those who seek to disarm the populace have convinced far too many people that this is not only achievable; but it is necessary to the future of this nation.
God help us all if they ever get their way.