Shades of gun bigotry

[MinnMooney]

The anti-gun crowd is very similar to pre-WWII Nazi Germany with their anti-semitic posters. The Nazis were very successful in creating false stereo-types of the Jews and made it easier to get rid of them when the time came.

Does any of this sound like familiar tactics to anyone???

 

[wishin]

^^^Excellent anology and poster. What language is that??

 

[Straight Shooter]

Can anyone translate the poster above?

 

[mbt2001]

I sent a letter.

Personally, I am tired of the "over compensating" type remarks that people criticizing gun owners throw out there. It is offensive. If it were any other subject and we were perceived as anything other than white males, it would be political death to do it.

Imagine if women were the perceived main proponent of guns and there were a ton of editorial cartoons showing fat, PMS enraged women killing people... Yeah, cartoon and story retracted.

 

[JohnBT]

I've been reading that rag off and on forever. My parents and relatives read it for the local news and obits (and the Richmond paper and Washington Post for better coverage of the important news.) Here is a bit of a letter to the editor from last November.

"Does The News Leader want to be a niche player in a dying market or an expanding player in the local market? Find stories that local people want to read. Get an editorial board that is at least balanced, not falling off the left end. Appeal to people who might buy your paper. Go out and get readership. Don't chase them away by telling them that they are wrong, wrong, wrong.

If The News Leader would realize they publish their newspaper in the reddest part of Virginia, they might not be forced to lay people off or send their printing to another county.

PHILIP LYNCH Fishersville"

 

[bikerdoc]

Call him.

Be calm respectful, present your status, job, standing in the community, etc.

And tell him you are offended!

 

[atomd]

Where are the good political cartoonists anyways? Do they even exist? Every single one I remember seeing is not even slightly funny and looks like it's drawn by some barking moonbat who either can't draw well or is too stoned to really try. Guys like him are the first ones to be offended when someone says anything negative about any race other than whites or any religion other than Christians....but yet they can be blatantly offensive to the white males, Christians, or any group that isn't "PC" this week. These guys actually make Family Circus seem slightly funny (and that's saying something).

 

[scndactive]

What is amazingly hypocritical is stomping a mud hole in the 2nd amendment while Enjoying and profiting from the full use of the 1st.

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

We at THR are like most groups. We have very educated folks, not so educated folks, and everywhere in between. We also have a multitude of professions represented here. Doctors, lawyers, computor programmers, secretarys, diesel mechanics, pilots, truck drivers, you name it.

"We" also have a strictly focused set of forum rules and strictly enforced censorship rules. Therefore, what you see here, is with the 70% of mindless drivel that you'd see on other forums stripped away. "We've" got a great bunch here, but it's also a highly filtered minority of people. Browse a few other forums and see what level of discussion passes as intelligent there.

 

[Artiz]

Does any of this sound like familiar tactics to anyone???

What, are you saying these brainwashing happiness TV commercials are not meant to strenghten my independent and extremely right wing mind?

 

[Walkalong]

Browse a few other forums and see what level of discussion passes as intelligent there.

I have. That is why I am here.

We still have a very diverse group with a commonality of the love of shooting.

 

[TexasBill]

Why not just e-mail Mr. McCloskey personally? His e-mail address is [email protected]. Before you do, you might want to think of a reason why someone would want or need to buy more than one handgun a month. Starting with the flawed logic that says someone who wants to buy more than one handgun a month is going to want to do that every month or is necessarily going to buy more than two handguns ever. Earlier this year, I bought two handguns on a single transaction: both were .22 pistols. I wanted to be able to have my wife join me at the range so we could shoot together, an activity we enjoy.

Sadly, the image of a gun fancier as a white, reactionary redneck is all too common, making a prime subject for cartoonists. It's a pity that some of our more conservative cartoonists (yes, they exist) don't seem to be able to come up with a good caricature of a rabid gun control nut. It's also a pity we don't have more high-profile liberal gun owners (yes, they exist, too) willing to stand up for the pro-gun movement.

 

[StrateShooter]

Leftists are not liberals for the most part because they oppose freedom, including gun rights, victims' rights, and the right of self-defense, and some are even totalitarians. "Liberal left" is an oxymoron. And they are hypocrits because they pretend to be liberal and opposed to bigotry but they are bigoted themselves as we see in the McCloskey cartoon and that is only a small part of the bigotry. For the most part they are unstable extraverts (cholerics), prone to psychosis, neurosis, and anti-social attitudes and behaviour. The anti-gun lobby is in general anti-liberal, totalitarian (supports a police state and the banning of guns), criminal, psychotic (believing guns cause crime), psychopathic (supports violent crime, defends criminals, opposes victims and self-defense), and phobic (morbid fear of guns), and is managed by the same people who orchestrate mass murders to galvanize people against guns (trauma-based mind control).

 

[shockwave]

While anti-gun sentiments were, at one time, strongly correlated with Democrats, this is much, much less so today. In fact, two of the strongest opponents to private gun ownership that I know personally are very conservative Republicans. It is probably safer to say that the "anti-gun crowd" are operating less out of politics and more out of personal prejudice or fear. And cartoons like the one in question don't help.

Also, one thing that seems to be unknown to the non-gun-owning public is the high cost of firearms. Billy Bob might want to buy more than one gun a month, but can he afford it? Unlikely. This is why most gun owners (this is backed by a formal study, btw) are solidly middle class and up. Those in a lower SES can and do obtain firearms, but often illegally, or guns of very low quality.

Yet another point is the culture of safety embraced by most - not all - gun owners. Our culture has a very strong safety focus, and that's why there are relatively few gun injuries due to accidents and mistakes. Those who follow the Three Rules of safety are virtually guaranteed to not be a source of problems. The non-gun-owning public has no idea about this and tend to picture gun-owners as being dangerous, whereas most are fanatic about avoiding accidents.

 

[Artiz]

Yet another point is the culture of safety embraced by most - not all - gun owners. Our culture has a very strong safety focus, and that's why there are relatively few gun injuries due to accidents and mistakes.

True, I always feel safer at the gun club than anywhere else in town. Police office included (the reason being a history of cops shooting other cops here, scary ****)

 

[atomd]

While anti-gun sentiments were, at one time, strongly correlated with Democrats, this is much, much less so today.

If you look at the ratings of politicians on the NRA-ILA site, you'll see a heck of a lot more "F" ratings next to Ds than Rs.

 

[StarDust1]

There are many reasons that some people support gun control. Plain old fashion bigotry is just one of them.

Actually bigotry was the original reason for gun control...

 

[StrateShooter]

I was able to identify only 3 words in the poster posted by MinnMooney. The 1st word is Jud, as in Jew, the 3rd is people, and the last is probably Judaic.