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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts) Sat Oct 24, 2015, 01:50 AM Oct 2015

Attempts at shaming only work when you have credibility with those being shamed [View all]

So why are gun control advocates going this route? Gun owners already see them as
somewhere between used car dealers and the more mendacious sorts of TV preachers.

There's no doubt that some of them really think that they can
get gun owners to 'see the light and hear the call' , but to be honest- most of it
seems like a pro forma desperation move, or an attempt to establish
a rep with the like-minded.

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Attempts at shaming only work when you have credibility with those being shamed [View all] friendly_iconoclast Oct 2015 OP

at least the alleged shamers are not piling up corpses by the tens of thousands nt msongs Oct 2015 #1

I think you've set the record pablo_marmol Oct 2015 #2

Now this is a new one! ROFLMAO.. virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #3

Well, people are killed, but we get to hear talk about Penis... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #10

Your post really shows the big picture. beevul Oct 2015 #13

How many gun owners have *you* gotten to "see the light" with that approach? friendly_iconoclast Oct 2015 #17

Yup.......you've hit the nail on the head. pablo_marmol Oct 2015 #4

It is going to go beyond talking to gun owners. All gun owners at least on this board are interested upaloopa Oct 2015 #5

What I'm hearing is -- Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #7

I don't care if you talk to us people. It has gone beyond talking as I have said. upaloopa Oct 2015 #19

You really believe you can get something done without the input/help of firearms owners? GGJohn Oct 2015 #20

Meh? They are locked into a state of "faith" and denial now DonP Oct 2015 #22

Your reply would have been a lot shorter if you had just said, "You're right." Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #21

Lol Duckhunter935 Oct 2015 #8

This is satire, right? GGJohn Oct 2015 #9

False (and borderline slanderous). Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #11

They usually have bupkis to say about the majority of firearm homicides... friendly_iconoclast Oct 2015 #15

It's a curious blind spot, isn't it? (nm) Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #16

Bluster and bravado. You lot are demonstrably prone to false consensus effect friendly_iconoclast Oct 2015 #14

Funny, as in strange sarisataka Oct 2015 #18

gun owners see through their "we only want" lies. ileus Oct 2015 #6

"...somewhere between used car dealers and the more mendacious sorts of TV preachers." beevul Oct 2015 #12