Tag: propaganda

The THING That Would Not Engage

We already saw it wouldn’t leave.

This is telling:

In addition to their website’s “contact us” and “media inquiries” buttons being disconnected, replies their X posts are disabled. Like all gun control groups, they like preaching to the choir.

I’d argue “mob,” not “choir,” but it’s a valid observation. Check it out:

Their whole purpose, at least their stated one, is to “foster a collaborative community to ensure our policies are shaped by comprehensive input,” yet they shut off inputs from the very community they purport to speak for. At least we see what they mean when they say they’re “taking back the conversation.”

Tell us they’re AstroTurf phonies without telling us they’re AstroTurf phonies. Of course, the fact that they’ve been around for years now, gotten all kinds of free publicity, and have only amassed 11K X followers in all that time, an unknown percentage being the people whose comments they muzzle, is our first clue.

The reason for the censorship, of course, is clear– every time they post something they get their @$$e$ handed to them in the ratioing, but that just goes to confirm they’re false fronts. The gun groups don’t have to do that and have more than enough supporters to drown out trolls or take them on on their own turf.

That pretty much proves out one other comment: Yes, in addition to being frauds, they’re cowards.

We’re the Young Generation and We’ve Got Something to Say

A new generation of young political leaders is gaining power in the US by using their personal experience with gun violence to push for reforms they say the US is ready for… Pearson’s brother, Timphrance Pearson, died of a self-inflected gunshot wound. It wasn’t his first experience with violent loss; just years before, his mentor Yvonne Nelson and his former classmate Larry Thorn were shot and killed in Memphis. [More]

All these supposed “young Turks” and not an original idea among them…

I’ve been embedded in the issue for longer than some of these people have been alive and have not personally known a single person so affected, making me wonder if it’s more a culture thing than a gun thing.

Noting that Pearson is “a recent gun owner himself” and is still pushing citizen disarmament kind of emphasizes why I maintain new gun buyers is not necessarily cause for the victory celebration so many “gunfluencers” treat it like.

I also note this propaganda piece is filed under “News” and not “opinion,” something to keep in mind when The Guardian pop-up begging for donations appears.

[Via Andy M]

Oh, Look: A Professional Liar

Arming teachers does nothing to protect our children from gun violence. Data shows these reactive initiatives are ineffective, make students and staff feel less safe, and only bring new risks into schools. Despite this, a staggering 15 states have laws on the books that explicitly authorize arming teachers. [More]

And which schools where teachers are armed have experienced mass shootings or any of the dire consequences being warned against?

This is just like when concealed carry was starting to become a thing, and we heard hysterical bleating against Dodge City/Wild West/Blood in the streets over fender benders that never materialized.

These un-American liars would rather see you and yours savagely murdered than armed, and would prefer it if your assailant used a gun so they can dance in the blood and demand more defenselessness.

Concealed Carry Killers Redux

Legally armed civilians, we’re told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others whenever they personally believe “force is reasonably necessary,” and rely on racist self-defense laws. [More]

One question: Why do they refer to violence monopoly propaganda apparatchik Mark Maremont as a “reporter”?

And as per the playbook of resurrecting old scare tactics that didn’t work the first time, such bleating isn’t even original.

I just got a subscription solicitation in the mail from WSJ. They get the same reply FOP did.

[Via bondmen]

Debunking Bunkum

Who says I want to escape? [More]

Seems society’s a lot safer than we think, and self-defense is statistically insignificant. You believe that when told by people who’ve been lying and trying to grab your guns for decades, right?

If true, not only should the police disarm (sorry, forgot about those superior “Only Ones” abilities), but their Train Smart program is admittedly putting attendees at risk they knew or should have known they were endangering, and maybe someone who took it and then blows a DGU can sue them.

Speaking of DGUs, even if you accept their calculated low-balling of numbers, 69,000 still exceeds “gun deaths.” Oops.

Funny thing: This “research” isn’t signed. I was hoping the authors could demonstrate some of their claims. I’d volunteer to help.

CONCLUSION: They’d rather see us dead than armed.

EXCLUSIVE: Gun Industry Uses Standard Sales Techniques for Legal Products!!!

The tactics he described are familiar in the world of online commerce, from food orders to clothes. But the presentation betrayed no consideration of the consequences that may arise if the tactics are applied in a widespread way to the selling of firearms and ammunition. [More]

Oh no! Rolling Stone and The Trace don’t like us!

Like they don’t both use advanced marketing tactics to spread their poison.

[Via WiscoDave]

Bear Maximum

Update to “Bear Minimums“:

“Teachers successfully repelled the bear using pepper spray and a bear banger.”… Tamara Davidson, British Columbia’s minister of environment and parks, called the teachers who fought off the bear “true heroes,” adding that they were well-prepared…” [More]

Do government flacks know how to do anything but gaslight to keep the obvious from being questioned? If the teachers had been successful and well-prepared there wouldn’t be 11 mauling victims fighting for their lives.

Just in Time for Veteran’s Day

Why a federal concealed carry gun bill must be stopped… Anthony Swofford is the author of “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.” He served in a Marine Corps scout sniper platoon during the Persian Gulf War and is special faculty in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University. [More]

Once again we see the false authority logical fallacy, as if his military experience qualifies him to second-guess the Founders. 

Tell us you don’t understand the oath you took without telling us you don’t understand the oath you took. Being a “war hero” doesn’t override that.

[Via Jess]

Stock Answers

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, “Six Words Every Killer Should Know: ‘I Feared for My Life, Officer.” Using a mis-mash of half-baked statistics, legal misinformation, and cherry-picked anecdotes, it tried to make a case that there is just too much darned self-defense going on in America. [More]

Just what do rope-selling capitalists think that rope will ultimately be used for?

[Via Michael G]

Brain Teaser

Blast waves may be damaging shooters’ brains. The Times has a new investigation on how it happens. [More]

And any who believe this is anything more than another attack by the newsraper of record against guns needs to have their heads examined.

But watch the narrative get parroted and spread.

[Via Andy M]

Related UPDATE

Four Boxes Diner speculates they inadvertently put out information that can be used to argue for suppressors.

[Via Jess]

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