Posters to address VT shooting

One more... Simple B&W and smallish, for ease of cross-posting on message boards.

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The fault of this tragedy is the anti-gun Democrats, police chiefs who do not allow citizens to carry concealed.

No.

The fault lies squarely in the hands of the nutjob who actually did the murdering.

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Amen.
All finger pointing aside, we(the RKBA crowd), of all groups, adhere to ideal of personal responsibility. Making this murderer into a political icon for all those thoughtless(mindless?) legislators, blissninnies, etc. that we oppose seems to be a contradiction. Yes, they set the climate & environment for this carnage, but only the shooter has the blood on his hands.
Would I like to see change? Hell, yes! I just think it needs to come about in a more mature manner than the finger pointing and name calling by both sides.
My $.02. You get what you pay for!

This vile monster,murdered innocent people and felt happy about doing so,without a second thought.This shouldn't of happend at all-NOT TODAY OR NOT EVER:


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If only I had the opportunity to have a CCW permit and defensive training,I could have done something about this and made a difference.




Instead of seeing this and endangering my life,because I was weaponless.

Colleges should be safe places to work in and you could make them even safer,by making ccw legal on the premises,otherwise you might end up in this,if you are unarmed and vunrable.

Apologies if this has already been suggested. I'm on the fly out the door.


The meaning of "Never Again!"
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The Jerusalem Post reports:

Israeli professor killed in US attack

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As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech College that left 33 dead and over two dozen wounded.

Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter when the man attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, "but all the students lived - because of him," Virginia Tech student Asael Arad - also an Israeli - told Army Radio.

A 76-year-old Romanian-Israeli Holocaust survivor.




An old man.

A man who knew the price.

A man the world could ill afford to lose.

There are people alive today because this man paid for them.

Maybe paraphrase something I've heard on THR a few times, like "outlaw guns on campus and only outlaws will have guns", perhaps referencing HB 1572 that would have allowed CCW on campus.

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I like that idea, particularly it capitalizes on the typical college student's distrust of The Man.

Also working on that, maybe something like, "Just like wolves have been domesticated into dogs, the government is domesticating people into slaves by disarming them and making them easier to control. Both the domestication of wolves and people involve a subtle mindset change."

As always, the question is who the audience for the poster is. If its for us, we already get it and your options are more open.

If its something you want to put in places where non-gunnies will see it, I'd avoid using a gun, and do something like place a copy of the No Weapons policy the school has with something like "He must not have read this" or something along those lines..show the inherent stupidity of banning guns. Maybe if they'd had a specific policy against murdering people in cold blood he'd have reconsidered.

I second savetheclaypigeons idea about the sheep. Just have a long line of woolly sheep with backpacks heading towards a slaughterhouse.

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I'll amend (or supplement) this idea:

- a sheep with a backpack
- a collie (or similarly 'positive image' dog) with a backpack
- a title of "9 out of 10 wolves prefer sheep to dogs."

How about:

- 9 sheep with backpacks
- 1 sheepdog with a backpack
- title, "Wolves beware."

Or, if going for humorous:

Something like this: [img=http://www.informationgospel.net/images/armed%20sheep.gif]
(something more CCW-friendly and defensive-looking, of course - like maybe drawing from a concealed 'pouch'?)

Caption: "This is one sheep who won't be taken easily."

Ideally, a whole series of different posters on a given theme, with different perspectives on the same concept, would be useful.

This would be an IDEAL time to start up a cross-campus organization trying to revert the bans on weapons, and to use said posters to aide in such a quest. I'd donate, most certainly.

The fault lies squarely in the hands of the nutjob who actually did the murdering.

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Partially, and mostly, true but not the whole picture. People do not operate inside a moral vacuum, and therefore your statement demonstrates one-dimensional thinking.

While not directly responsible, the people who implemented the no-guns-on-campus rules are, in part, culpable for the deaths. They banned the guns, and therefore they had the responsibility to make sure that this kind of thing didn't happen. of course, that's not possible, because it would require a lot of money to do so, and schools don't like spending money when it makes them look like a 'police state'.

The shooter was the single party responsible for the act, yes - but the people who passed the rules foolishly are also responsible for the deaths. It's like a mayor passing off on a bridge design he knew was flawed, and then only the engineer getting in trouble when the bridge collapses and kills someone.

This one may be over the top:

a group of people in a laying dead in a line, shell casings and blood everywhere.

"In a civilized country people line up for gun control"

or:

"Good thing none of them had a gun, the others might not have felt safe"

I think I'd be awfully careful with the sheep analogy. It's unecessary and implies that we know what thoughts or actions those students took. We don't, and personally, I'm not going to judge a one of them. I know what actions I'd want to take, but I've never been put in that position.

Immediately after the VT tragedy, anti-gun groups began using this incident to push their agenda.

I find that practice appalling.

Except for the message being true, I’m not sure why I should view this poster development thread in a different way just because I happen to be on the same team.

We don't need to use the VT tragedy.

It will offend well before it makes someone have a pro-gun epiphany.

Oleg,

Grab the picture of the coffin above this post. Label it:

"The only safe gun-free zone."

Pops

To those offended:

If not now, when?
If not VT, what example?

Of 60 casualties, there's a good chance ONE would have been packing - had they not been threatened for doing so.

Do we wait until it's a dismissible memory?
Do we wait until people revert to "I don't want anyone else having one"?

Posted this somewhere else today but I think this is a better place for it since you want ideas. I still want to make a few changes to it but it, but here's the current working version.

Updated: See post 175 for newest version.

How about...

He survived the Holocaust.
He escaped from Communism.
He saw Israel, and made it to America.
But he didn't survive the gun-free zone at Virginia Tech.

eidsvolling-
Don't let the door hit you on the way out!!!

Oleg -
Keep up the good work!!!!

There is a lot of good, creative work here! While I do not have a specific idea, I think we should focus on a poster/ad that does not offend those who might be inclined to support gun control. Try to sway the fence-sitters; gunnies are already convinced!

By this I mean that gory or threatening posters, like the muzzle end of a gun, puts off those who are already afraid of guns, elliciting a "those gun nuts are mad men!" response.

Perhaps a pictue of something / someone attractive but with a double-entendre, so that once you read the whole poster then you get the point.

I'll try to come up with something...

PC around the VT shooting

Well I cant say I disagree with the members that do not want to use this to push concealed carry laws or those who want to back off out of respect for the victims. Let me explain, I experienced a school shooting first hand in the mid 80's in Goddard, Ks. Although there was only one fatality and I did not witness the shooting (just in the building at the time) I felt contempt for local authorities, politicians and expecially the media that politicized the event. That being said I see no moral issues discussing this event in an open forum where people have the right to participate or not.

OK now back on topic: Some great poster ideas on this thread but I believe that most are only going to receive positive feedback from those who already support our right to carry. I would suggest being a little more subtle if the intent is to sway opinion.

First attempt.

Add text to read, "Some dogs kill people...

...should we ban them all?"

Ok, I am not a graphics guy and I cannot add the test without making the picture too big (MB), but you get the idea - don't repel people that are sitting on the fence! Use logic to bring them to our side!

Suggestion: Adjust the white text to be more over darker background areas for contrast. Make the text bold. Great otherwise.

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Thanks for the advice! The text position was bothering me to it just didn't feel right. I played around with it a bit more and came up with this instead...still not 100% on it but I feel I'm getting closer.