Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumShannon Watts says she will counter the NRA's "guns for anyone, anywhere, anytime" message
The NRAs agenda to ensure guns for anyone, anywhere, anytime no questions asked will be presented without irony, even though guns will be banned from the venue when Trump speaks, and even though the vast majority of NRA members and gun owners support strengthening gun laws.
Thats why, as founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, I will also be in Louisville this weekend, along with grassroots volunteers and survivors of gun violence. Since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we have become the counterweight to the Washington gun lobby, representing millions of Americans who will no longer allow the gun lobby to write our nations gun laws.
While candidate Trump exhorts the crowd to make America great again, we will demand political leaders Make America Safe Again.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/05/18/comment-nra-foe-deliver-pro-life-message/84540176/
ileus
(15,396 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)Still waiting for some actual examples of the "Guns for Anyone, Everywhere, All the Time, Central Daylight Savings Time, Time Out, Overtime at time and a half, etc."
"No questions asked"? Gee, I get asked a lot of question any time I buy a gun.
But maybe Shannon's armed bodyguards shop somewhere a little more lax on following the 22,000 existing Federal, State and Local gun laws?
Straw Man
(6,775 posts)That'll work ...
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)What competent marketing professional keeps the competitor's slogan in the forefront of the audience's mind? The idea is to create a distinct, resonating message; not ape the person you claim is a bad example.
beevul
(12,194 posts)That could prove impossible, seeing as that isn't the nras message or their stance.
What? All 13 of them?
Did Shannon drop acid or something?
Oh, you mean like before there were background checks on guns at all, pre1994? Or do you mean that plus before the fopa?
They speak for more Americans that support the second amendment than Shannon does.
Those protections obviously did not stop sandy hook or VT, so maybe someone can chime in with exactly what those protections accomplish that makes them worth keeping, beyond "gun control good", but somehow I don't think we'll be hearing from anyone on that point.
Its ok, I'm sure bloombergs checks clear just the same.
You can't be trusted to talk about guns without misrepresenting the issue and those who support the second amendment.
Duty to retreat is a criminal/violent enabling piece of excrement.
Uh huh. Continuing the effort to cloak yourself and your group as people that "just want reasonable controls", as if is working. Well, shan, it isn't:
"Our message is that, you know first of all, were not anti-gun, we support the second amendment..."
http://momsdemandaction.org/in-the-news/moms-demand-action-deeply-disappointed-federal-judges-decision-overturning-chicagos-citywide-ban-gun-dealerships/
No sale.
Uh...right. That will actually have meaning when it becomes A true, and B when your org actually has people who teach gun safety.
One simple question, and any controller can answer it:
Which year in the past was "America was more safe", and what gun control laws were in effect then that aren't now?
My "in general" comment:
The 'piece' linked to in the OP, reeks of desperation and dishonesty - in other words, the smell remains the same.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)beevul
(12,194 posts)They know they're promulgating is untruth.
The anti-gun crowd makes a HUGE production out of guns not being allowed at nra annual meetings, for example.
So the "NRAs agenda to ensure guns for anyone, anywhere, anytime no questions asked", is obviously a false premise.
I don't mind pointing it out.
DonP
(6,185 posts)Facts and reality are not involved.
If they were, Bloomberg might get frustrated and take his money and decide to save the rare Tangerine Orangutan instead and Shannon would have to go back to just bullying people at her Homeowners Association Meetings again.