We are being outplayed in the court of public opinion. America’s enemies planned for this and had a scripted sequence of stories and “spontaneous events” polished and ready even before the shooting, just waiting eagerly for enough children to die. While I hope we can out-wait them and not give in to further restrictions on our God-given right to self defense, we need to do more.
(1) We need to get the pro-gun “victims” out there talking about how much safer they would have been with trained and (voluntarily) armed teachers who cared about the students instead of depending on the indifferent deputies cowering outside.
(2) We need to articulate to the low-information voters why people are safer when more people are armed. We need to make sure all people know that guns make the weak, the old, the small, minorities, and in general those who are disadvantaged the equal of anyone who might mean them harm.
“God Created Men and Sam Colt Made Them Equal!”
- March 5, 1836:
It’s going to backfire. Gun grabbin’ will finally get idiot conservatives off their asses and into the voting booths this fall.