Bring the realism
Far too many gunnies spend their time trying to be right, whether it’s compiling facts about private gun ownership and crime or digging up quotes from the Founding Fathers, and not nearly enough time on how to actually implement their ideas. Anyone who has ever seen the floor debates on gun bills in Albany knows that a rational discussion on the facts never comes up from the other side. Why worry about it then? There is nothing wrong with simply telling a legislator to vote your way or else you will work against them next election cycle.
Yes. And the gunny vote is important in many areas. Politicians know that.
August 24th, 2010 at 10:49 am
A side correlation of this is several of the more notorious anti-rights trolls exist simply because of the pro-rights evangelical nature. Many of us were shown facts and reason to be converted from the anti-rights side…so we ourselves project that rational mindset to the trolls, assuming that just a few more tables and graphs, or a few more reasonable arguments, and sending up links to their websites to get a few more voices to the cause is EXACTLY what puts them on the map in the first place. (I’m probably more guilty of this than the next guy)
IMHO if you find somebody wrong on the internet, ignore them, and work extra hard on your own blog to spread what’s right. The “Fence Sitters” will instead find your blog rather than the troll’s in the first place…
August 24th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
I guess I have to agree. Most Gunnies I know want to have the facts in order to have an intelligence debate on a subject. In politics being intelligent appears to be a drawback since you can’t scream “think of the children” and still appear intelligent.
Most discussions I don’t bother to participate. The anti-gunners don’t spend a lot of time dealing with facts and when they do they find they have to distort them to continue their argument.
I guess the best thing is to just tell the politico that he/she can play it your way or not at all. That’s all that really matters in the end. Unfortunately.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Back in the day, when I was a neophyte gunrights advocate, I had a mindset that afflicted many of us: the fallacious belief that if I could just somehow explain the matters of law, history and natural rights clearly and compellingly enough to lawmakers, they would understand and as a consequence of that knowledge, do the right thing.
The simple, ugly truth is that most lawmakers just don’t give a {bleep}.
August 24th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
One of the reasons we are winning is because we bring the facts and the rational debate, and the other side only has namecalling. This combined with outreach ends up slowly converting people to our side and makes us stronger.
In short: Keep the reason and the logic and the facts, with them we will win.
August 25th, 2010 at 2:24 am
The way we also win is to make an effort to bring a new shooter to the range as often as possible.
Once they have had quality recoil therapy, they are converted.
Lessee, millions of shooters + millions of new shooters = alot of kool folks.