Posted on 07/14/2015 8:08:30 AM PDT by SZonian
Fresh off their recent victory in having same-sex marriage legalized, many of the movement’s organizers are now turning to gun control as the next hot social issue, or so reports the New Yorker.
“Marriage-equality activists in every state were armed with a talking-points tip sheet from WhyMarriageMatters.org whose logo reads “Love. Commitment. Family.” The one-page memo talks about the protection of religious freedom, the golden rule, family stability, and mutual respect. In the fight for marriage equality, the left borrowed the language of the right, in other words, and used it consistently and explicitly to bring the opposition along. Now similar tacks are being taken on guns…
When Zach Silk thinks about how to articulate the values of the renovated gun movement, he uses the same words that the gun advocates use: “Community. Safety. Responsibility. Protecting my family.” In this redefining, he hopes to make a point. “Protection” isn’t an individual matter (a canard in any case, because having a gun in the house makes you exponentially less safe) in which individual patriarchs safeguard individual offspring. “Protection” is a communitarian thing, in which the safety of one’s own children depends on the safe habits of one’s neighbors.
Gun people underestimate these guys at their own peril. I shudder to think that in the face of savvy, patient, successful operatives like Zach Silk, we’re offering the tone-deaf and thoroughly unlikeable Wayne LaPierre, along with mass mailings filled with fear-mongering fever swamp boilerplate about black helicopters and the NWO.
We need an NRA 2.0 to go with Gun Culture 2.0, and we need it now.
But it's something folks need to know about and prepare for...the pink mafia fascists keep on rollin'.
The 21st century fascism. Democrat party and GOP quislings.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312894/posts
We need tort reform, so very badly.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/why-gun-control-could-be-like-marriage-equality.html
New York Magazine
Keep it up Gay Mafia and soon ... very soon ... “sights will be on you
Thanks, must be the outdated browser I’m on...
And would it be a double entendre’ to say that 2n Amnt rights advocates will set their sights on the Gay marriage advocates, if they push that button?
It’s all fun and games until someone misses a headshot
All of those Leftist paid consultants have won their gay marriage victory. They need to find another paying gig.
It appears the author of the article got New Yorker and New York magazines confused.
The pink mafia will ally with any other organization they find a common cause with...conservatism is a common cause they and anti-2nd Amendment groups are fighting against.
So be it...but IMO, any organization, the NRA to be specific, that compromises and endorses known socialists is not a friend to the 2nd Amendment or the Constitution as a whole...yeah, they’re a single issue entity, but to endorse Harry Reid, Manchin, etc. is a failure of good common sense...those bastards are responsible for assisting in the demise of our country and liberty...make no mistake, they will side with anti-gunners when the chips are down.
And I invoke Godwin’s Law...have a good day.
Fixed.
Forgot to mention 'extremely effective Wayne LaPierre'. This screed reads like cheap, amatuer propaganda. Goebbels would not be impressed.
I wonder why they peg him as "unlikeable? Doesn't have anything to do with their constant demonization of the NRA and anyone associated with the NRA, does it?
Maybe we should get a handsome and eloquent man, perhaps an actor to head the NRA. It would help if he had impeccable credentials and a history of supporting the civil rights movement.
No, wait. We tried that with Charleton Heston, and the left still excoriated him.
Maybe we just won't make points with the lefties no matter what we do, and a pitbull like LaPierre is exactly what we need.
Bring. It. On.
This will make not only revolt possible, but likely.
No problem. I just declared that all my guns are gay.
They are now protected.
Guns are the one thing which could level the playing field for gays in hostile territory.
Effing idiots.
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