it's a march to let the legispotators know what we will not stand for?
If you're going to plan a chitchat, meet at a coffee shop I mean, why even bother with standing around?
I understand what you are saying, but obviously there would need to be a written and cohesive public statement given. People would undoubtedly take notice and the media would show up.
What counts is that people NOT show up armed. What counts is that attending gun owners NOT react to antigun rhetoric. What matters is showing up calmly to demonstrate that we are law abiding citizens, who don't believe limiting the rites of law abiding citizens is a viable solution to dealing with criminal behavior. What matters is showing that we DO IN FACT believe in school safety and keeping our society safe, but are unwilling to trade our freedom for what we believe will be an ineffective solution.
The rabid gun banners are of course not interested in what we have to say, nor were the millions of brainwashed children that were used as pawns in that political maneuver. Kids will believe what ever their parents tell them to because they lack critical thinking skills, and some folks are willing to trade their freedom on the gamble that the cops and government can keep them safe, and will never turn on them.
What matters is when people on the fence see gun owners peacefully and calmly showing up to demonstrate their support of the 2A in it's pure sense, and state their support of our nation's laws, and safety for all. The reality is we gun owners want change also, but we just don't believe in limiting freedom because of a few bad apples. We don't agree on HOW to fix the problem of mass shootings.
I for one am in the camp that believes mass shootings are caused by mental health issues. But what new programs or new methods of reaching out to these people to bring them back into the fold have been funded and implemented? Maybe as gun owners we should start calmly requiring our law makers to do something about the mental health problem in this country. When I hear people on THR say they wrote their representative to ask them to support their gun rights, did they also ask them to support and develop new programs to stop school and other mass shooting at their source?
There's two problems as I see it.
1. How do you stop a crime before it is committed without violating a person's basic rights? It's not illegal to be weird or creepy, but when someone starts making comments on FB about wanting to shoot up a school, maybe we need to consider an interdiction before a crime is committed.
2. How do gun owners come together to generate a cohesive and well balanced statement for said march, that all gun owners can be on board with? Often we don't agree ourselves with what is needed. So how does a march message get written to be inclusive of gun owners, and who writes it? The NRA is evil according to many media outlets. I think they should be left out of it.
Again, it was just an idea to demonstrate a calm reserved expression of our perspective, because I believe there is a perception that we gun owners are a overly aggressive lot. some are of course, but not all.
Maybe it's a terrible idea. Maybe it wouldn't work. It was just a suggestion for a different tactic than has been used, with the hope that it would have a different result.
