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ninksink <ninksink@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> True life stories of how the 2nd Amendment helps protect you and your
loved
> ones by using an equalizer.
>
<excellent stories SNIPped - Go read the main post>
>
> Gun control advocates are making head way because they appeal to the
> emotions.  Gun advocates tend to state the facts, though true, facts are
to
> the TV blob minions of today, "boring".  So starting today, I am going to
> appeal to emotions when I support the 2nd Amendment.  Then when someone
> whines, that is the time to use the facts and support the emotional point.
> I will post these messages to my state and federal represetatives and
> senators, and to several newsgroups dealing with this Constitutional
issue.
> I urge all others who care about their founding forefathers and the legacy
> they beseached upon us to do the same.  Rather simple and cheap these days
> with the internet.
>
As I see it, that's one of the biggest problems pro-gunners face.  People
don't buy primarily on facts, they buy on emotions, and use the facts to
back up their choice based on those emotions.  The Anti-Gunners use the
emotions of Fear (if we don't ban guns, this will happen to YOU!)
Sadness/Pain (just LOOK at these kids killed by GUNS! Isn't it TERRIBLE?
Don't you feel SAD?) and other negative emotions to get people to "buy"
their anti-gun ideas.

It's more difficult to get as strong a POSITIVE emotion from good stories of
people protecting themselves with guns (Gee, Wasn't that GOOD? Aren't you
HAPPY this guy saved his own life?)  See. not as easy.  The NRA uses fear
pretty good (They're confiscating guns in California! Your state could be
next!), but only to those who give a damn about it to begin with.  But when
pro-gunners use fear and negative emotion as a "selling" tactic to our
ideas, it makes us look a little wacky to those who don't understand what
we're fighting for.

We need to find a way to get the undecided or borderline people excited
about the Constitution and the Second Amendment.  We need to give these
people a real reason AND emotion why it's worth fighting for.  We need some
way to get people in the middle of the road, who don't care yet one way or
the other, to "buy" our pro-gun side BEFORE the anti-gunners can "sell" them
on their ideas.

I came up with the slogan "Embrace Freedom, Hug a Gun"...

...That's not too "Wacky", is it?...
...OryGunner...




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> Fire arms are used over 2 million times a year for personal protection,
and
> that the presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime
> in many instances.
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