re: #135 Rightwingconspirator

Uh huh. Well count me in as one of those who does talk it up and one of my motivations is certainly the critics that broad brush us or expect so many to come to their conclusions once exposed to the same old gun stats. So there we are.

Yeah, the politicization of it is what makes it seem weird to other people, and I’d say the evangelization may actually be working against you. Again, one of the major problems among gun advocacy groups is how rarely they talk about people who shouldn’t own guns—not because they’re bad people, but just because they’re irresponsible, they get loaded, or are buying the gun for ‘self defense’ when they live in a very safe neighborhood and are not actually increasing their safety by doing so.

By making it into a political, rather than a pragmatic position, I think gun advocates do their own position a disservice, and wind up opening themselves up to a lot of legitimate criticism about evangelization.

Veteran gun-owners, responsible law-abiding gun-owners, should be dissuading, as well as encouraging, people to own guns, just as a boxing trainer should dissuage, as well as encourage, to box, based on the person.