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3) I don't agree with Crimefree's interpretation that gun owners drive people away.
That is perfectly normal people do not like change, However you have explained your objections so that makes it real easy to respond.
Thanks.
Rather its a leftwing media and politician cooperative that does this and they aren't going to change no matter what Gun owners do
It is a very common misconception that the media act as they will. Common sense say no for the simple reason they are in business to provide a product the public will purchase. That is a lever, the only lever we have to exploit. Unless one throws unseemly amounts of money at the media there is no other way of firearm owners controlling what the media prints. Let me give an example from real life experiences. A newspapers runs a gun control op-ed or comment on something. The next few days it get a few letters pointing ouut the errors and that he reality is the news paper and gun control are complicit in endangering the public. It get ignored. Thereafter each time the number of letters increases as more people come on board. There is some number of letters that say you cannot ignore me because now the letters are also complaining about bias, Those letters or some of them will be published. The public now see your free advertising. Cost 10..20 minutes and data cost. Make sure the message is not one of winging about gun control or promoting guns or services, That message must be aimed at public safety and security,
Firearm owenrs simply cannot afford to buy media coverag it is goinge like this
-as long as gun owners and the NRA vote for the type of candidates the MSM and the Democrat party oppose, the demonization will continue.
Politicians without public support have nothing. It really is that simple. You cannot buy politics with hoping for sympathy. I'll put it this way. First principle of politice. The only currency of politics is POWER.
4) in other words, as long as the Democrat party keeps pushing gun control as a way of pandering to some members of the public, the BM will keep demanding more restrictions in order to pander and because gun owners and our organizations will vote against the pimps who pander, the MSM will demonize us.
Seriously political parties can only do what the public let them do. There is no greater power than the public.
As an example after Sandy Hook gun control made a huge push for bans and other laws. This fell through not due to any action by any firearm organisations. It fell through because legislation had not been prepared and public opinion had now swung form around 60% for more strict laws to close to 50%. That made any legislation a bad decision because of the potential to cause a back lash on the sponsoring party.
Unless a government is willing to take on citizens and defeat them with arms there is no option but to do as the public want. It is why gun control does everything in its power to obtain public sympathy and support.
I'm not sure how well this explains this aspect to you. Let me know if there are any doubts.