Monday, March 9, 2009

How They Roll

So on appearances, we are dealing with a largely uniformed and easily persuaded electorate if terms are couched in misleading soundbites. We know that they will work to sway and target women and seniors. Nice of them to lay out the ground rules and battlefields for us.
This is not a new tactic. The VPC openly admits to using misdirection to push for their agenda. Classic terms such as 'cop killer bullets', 'Saturday Night Specials', 'plastic guns', etc. are the bread and butter to anti-gun groups because they sound scary to the majority of people who, unfortunately, don't pay attention.

Ask an 'average person' if they know what an 'assault weapon' is. You'll be told it's a 'high powered machinegun' or some variation thereof.

We rely on educating the public to persuade them to our way of thinking. They rely on and cultivate ignorance.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, ignorance, emotion, and misdirection are much easier to spread and much quicker to catch on, just due to their viral and "conspiratorial" nature... We have a long row to plow, but it will be worth it.

Anonymous said...

The constant misrepresentations always made me snicker, until the whole "disposable AK-47's" was the flavor of the week.

That just flat out pissed me off. I've been a cynical gun nut ever since.

Armed US Citizen said...

The misrepresentation and misuse of terms is such a part of even the local media that we have a long uphill fight to turn the indoctrination. But it is a fight we must fight and we must win!

Keep America Safe!

TexasFred said...

We had an IDIOT on the gun forum a while back that went out of his way to use the term *Tupperware* guns at every opportunity, he did it to deliberately disrupt and I asked him to please not do that anymore, I asked nicely too...

He quit the forum and tried to convince folks he was banned by that mean old redneck gunnie TexasFred...

Of course he was lying and I had the security logs to prove it but the fact remains, he used *key words*, gun grabber words and was called on it, he pouted and left..

Makes you kind of wonder huh??

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