Leaked guide reveals how to advance strict gun control

Small Government Times ^ | 2013-08-09 | Steve Adcock

[sdnet]

Leaked guide reveals how to advance strict gun control

August 9, 2013

A recently leaked playbook provides details to proponents of strict gun control on how to most effectively strip gun rights from the American people.  The tips include everything from using properly-crafted extreme language to taking full advantage of well-publicized gun crimes.

The guide repeatedly stresses the use of emotion, and actively encourages gun control proponents to leap onto gun crimes and start exploiting the crime’s emotional toll immediately – even before the facts are known.

“The smartest thing to do is avoid linking our message and arguments to any one set of partially-revealed facts. We shouldn’t assume the facts,” the report said, arguing that the core message about restricting gun rights is “independent of facts that may shift on us over time.”

In other words, do not let facts get in the way of the message.  Before the smoke has left the gun, savagely start feeding off of the victims of the crime and exploit their emotional tragedies with calls for strict gun control.  Focus on their misery.  Take full advantage of their disaster.

The keys to advancing gun control, according to the report (emphasis mine):

• Always focus on emotional and value-driven arguments about gun violence
• Tell stories with images and feelings
• Claim moral authority and the mantle of freedom
• Emphasize that dangerous military-style weapons are easily accessible
• Emphasize America’s “weak” gun laws
• Challenge the NRA on OUR terms, not THEIRS

Clearly, Washington politicians are learning.  Ignore the facts and instead focus on emotional arguments.  Use terms like “military-style weapons”, even though those weapons are not used the wide majority of highly publicized gun crimes.  Claim moral authority by arguing the destruction of gun rights can prevent the next massacre and put a stop to the worry that Americans have over gun crime.  And whenever possible, exploit the victims of tragedies by plastering up images of crying mothers, scared children and the “pain and anguish” of gun violence.  How lovely.

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[Resolute Conservative]

I prefer they go door to door and collect them. That would be more efficient, right :)...

[Triple]

“This messaging guide builds on that research. It has been prepared by a team of communicators who have brought to the table decades of experience advising organizations on message development and strategic communications:

FRANK O’BRIEN, creative director and founder of OMP, a communications and fundraising firm that consults to a host of brand name charitable and advocacy organizations. Mr. O’Brien is widely rec- ognized as one of the leading direct response strategists in the country.

AL QUINLAN heads Greenberg Quinlan Rosner’s team of U.S. political analysts and campaign pollsters. Mr. Quinlan’s specialty is delivering strategic consultation and issue management advice to a broad range of issue groups, corporations and political campaigns.

JOHN NEFFINGER AND MATTHEW KOHUT, principals in KNP Communications, a highly-regarded commu- nications consulting firm. Neffinger and Kohut have more than a decade of experience preparing politicians, corporate executives, and others to communicate effectively.

This guide is intended to help organizations and individuals choose effective arguments and language when communicating with the public on behalf of stronger public policies to prevent gun violence. It is not intend- ed to offer media training advice on topics such as how to prepare for a media appearance or advice about specific media such as how to write a press release or prepare a compelling email message.” - from the guide

The people involved...

[centurion316]

the core message about restricting gun rights is “independent of facts that may shift on us over time.”

The same approach applies to every single one of the lefts pet agendas - no need for facts, they get in the way don't you know.

[from occupied ga]

The people involved...

Dangerous enemies to be added to the list.

[MeshugeMikey]

the “pain and anguish”.... of “gun violence”

Can one give a gun a time out? Would that be effective halting “gun violence” in the early stages of Juvenile Gun Delinquence?

[Renegade]

Come yto my door and you will be carried back to the coroner’s vehicle!

[Little Ray]

Funny there is never anything about the pain anguish of be disarmed and helpless in the fact of attack, or about appropriate punishments for the criminal (Public Hanging was not “cruel and unusual” for centuries before the Supreme Idiots had a “revelation.”).

[Noumenon]

More for the List

[Truth2012]

This use of emotions is also a standardized Common Core Tactic, used in K-5 in social studies, writing and English standards, to encourage the students in the use of “emotion” wording to socially engineer the public beliefs and behaviors.

They got us coming and going.

[IronJack]

Authors of the ever-popular “How to Steal Constitutional Rights: A Handbook for Totalitarians”

[RedMDer]

Fight the Leftist Gun Grabbers.
Support Free Republic.

[from occupied ga]

How to find people on the list

take Frank Obrien - seriously you take him I don't want him

Works at OMP in Wash DC (where else)

Suppose that Mr Gun Control lives in Montgomery county maryland - one of the richest counties in the USA. How to find his address (to send him fan mail preferably third class mail and pounds of it). The land records office of Montgomery county is on-line records A bit of digging and jackasses can no longer hide.

But suppose he lives in Fairfax county - this is a bit harder because names are not available online property search but a dedicated title search can find out the information.

[MeganC]

I just sent $60 to the NRA. Thanks for posting this and reminding me why that’s important!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Make that check payable to George Lakoff. Cha-Ching....

[Triple]

If these folks are not enemies of The Constitution, then what would earn someone that classification?

[DuncanWaring]

What kind of rifle’s he holding?

Some variant of Ruger?

[RedMDer]

I don’t know what brand it is.

[damper99]

M-1 carbine.

[DuncanWaring]

So it is.

I should have recognized the magazine.