Boulder AR-15 Ban

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Originally Posted by O2HeN2

They would have found something. On the order of 25 years ago I led an April 19th protest at the state capitol - back in the days of trying to make Colorado a "shall issue" state. Suggested dress code was suit and tie.

99.9% of the people showed up dressed in coat and tie. Press coverage? The 00.1% camo clad folks with shirts that said stuff like "Shoot 'em all, let God sort 'em out".

The press is our enemy. They will go to any length to cast us in a bad light. If not a single gun was visible they would have found something else to focus on.

O2

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And? Make them work for it then. Don't sick cousin
Bubba on the community just because the press will find something bad anyway. If people do their best to not act like a bunch of shit throwing monkeys, then maybe the "bad" stuff the press finds won't really be that bad.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Gays in the 90's told everyone how normal they were and how they were just like everyone else.

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So are you saying they haven't moved their agenda forward at all since the 90s? I think you just blew a huge hole in your own argument.

O2

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Originally Posted by Irving

Carrying rifles around in town isn't normal, never has been, and never will be. Gays in the 90's told everyone how normal they were and how they were just like everyone else. Then swung their dicks from the tops of parade floats and walked around naked everywhere. Open carrying is the same thing. If you want to point out how normal something is, then act normal about it.

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I was going to make that same exact point but couldn't figure out how to put it. Well done.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Make them work for it then.

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Ah, you're under the impression that to slander a group of poepole would require work on their part.

Nope.

O2

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Originally Posted by O2HeN2

So are you saying they haven't moved their agenda forward at all since the 90s? I think you just blew a huge hole in your own argument.

O2

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How much of a part do you think leather chaps and public oral played in moving that agenda forward? The only way I see it helping is people acting normal in direct contrast to those who didn't.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Carrying rifles around in town isn't normal, never has been, and never will be

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Wrong again. Hell, kids used to take rifles to school and go hunting afterwards.

Now it appears that even pro-gun folks think of that as some kind of perversion.

O2

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Originally Posted by Irving

Carrying rifles around in town isn't normal, never has been, and never will be. Gays in the 90's told everyone how normal they were and how they were just like everyone else. Then swung their dicks from the tops of parade floats and walked around naked everywhere. Open carrying is the same thing. If you want to point out how normal something is, then act normal about it.

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Yep.. normalizing guns means that the media's depiction of crazy gun owners needs to be faced and disputed. People walking down the sidewalk with a rifle on their back is highly unlikely to ever be "normal" throughout most of the US no matter how much you may want it to be.

When average people walking down the street that may have never seen a gun in person in their entire life see a bunch of guys waving flags and holding signs with rifles hanging from their shoulders the first thing that will pop in their heads is the news report of the crazy gun guys on TV the previous day.

Or the alternative is that they could walk through a crowd of people that look just like them and don't fit the media narrative, that's when they then start to think that maybe the news is full of shit.

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Originally Posted by Irving

How much of a part do you think leather chaps and public oral played in moving that agenda forward?

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A lot. After all, after being exposed to that kind of fringe, Milo Yiannopoulos seems somewhat normal, n'etc-ce pas?

O2

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Originally Posted by O2HeN2

Wrong again. Hell, kids used to take rifles to school and go hunting afterwards.

Now it appears that even pro-gun folks think of that as some kind of perversion.

O2

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Driving a gun somewhere and taking it inside, or leaving it in the car (even in a window gun rack) just isn't the same as walking around town.

I don't think it matters much what we argue here, because there will be people who take paths, at the same time. We're all going through this one way or another. See you on the other side.

If you think this would have turned out differently if lawful gun owners behaved differently, you are a heck of an optimist. Or have a short memory. The libs will always vote against us. It's what they do. And they will continue to do so for as long as people keep voting for them. They may attempt to placate people with cheap words about how they are on your side, but they are signing away your freedom while they do so.