How to Persuade Americans to Give Up Their Guns from The Atlantic magazine

[DougC]

From time to time one should make note of what the anti-2A crowd is promoting to disarm us. As Sun Tzu is quoted;, "If you know your enemy and..."

The Atlantic is a left-wing publication and featured this article recently.

 

[Renegade]

what a doofus

 

[2ManyGuns]

How to persuade Americans to give up their guns, the answer is simple! Execute more dangerous criminals, especially criminal politicians.

 

[skfullgun]

Very convincing article. Poignant and powerfully persuasive.
If I still owned firearms, I'd be investigating the most effective manner in which to surrender them.

 

[Wiliamr]

This is the type of article that a large number of Americans read. A large percentage of Americans do not own guns and their only connection to them is through television and movies that depict violent use of guns. The American population is being manipulated and led to believe that any and all gun ownership makes the owner a killer. We on this forum are very parochial in our interest in guns and our knowledge of same. What many here do not do is to open discussion with those who do not own guns and listen to what they say and their perceptions. What we must do is not try to convert these people, rather we need to listen to their fears and ignorance and formulate a platform to offer them, in the future, an alternative informed and factual truth about guns and the ownership of same.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Go pound sand

 

[ronbwolf]

The only line in the entire verbose blathering article that made any sense was in the description of the author at the end, he wrote "Trumpocalypse, restoring..." too much Trump Derangement Syndrome, the author has opened his mouth, and proven himself a fool, and now also a MORON!

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[EZ-E]

The author of the article is pretty oblivious to the call time to wait for police with dumb ass statement like this one from the article.

"In virtually every way that can be measured, owning a firearm makes the owner, the owner’s family, and the people around them less safe."

 

[Kar98]

This isn't new with this weasel:

David Frum - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And we have seen a bunch of posts and letters to the ed by alleged "reasonable gun owners" recently, that the existence of astroturfing campaigns is a given at this point.

 

[V-Tach]

Unfortunately many in our society are totally ignorant on the subject of firearms. All they know is what they see on TV or hear from their source of news. Sadly, both are no longer reality based, but emotional based.

Those unfortunate Citizens that only know urban life, cannot fathom the life most of us have known by not living in a major metropolitan city.

To them, we are hicks and rubes to be dismissed by their enlightened utopian views.....

Hicks and rubes will be the final winners in the end..............

 

[DougC]

This is the type of article that a large number of Americans read. A large percentage of Americans do not own guns and their only connection to them is through television and movies that depict violent use of guns. The American population is being manipulated and led to believe that any and all gun ownership makes the owner a killer. We on this forum are very parochial in our interest in guns and our knowledge of same. What many here do not do is to open discussion with those who do not own guns and listen to what they say and their perceptions. What we must do is not try to convert these people, rather we need to listen to their fears and ignorance and formulate a platform to offer them, in the future, an alternative informed and factual truth about guns and the ownership of same.

Well stated. Thanks for adding to the conversation. Too often on this and other forums we are talking/writing in an 'echo chamber'. Hearing ourselves all the time.

 

[Coyote9]

From time to time one should make note of what the anti-2A crowd is promoting to disarm us. As Sun Tzu is quoted;, "If you know your enemy and..."

The Atlantic is a left-wing publication and featured this article recently.

I could get 75% of gun owners to bring their firearms in, offer them an upgrade and 100 rounds of ammo!

 

[Axxe55]

If a person owns guns, and reads an article written by some idiot, and that is what persuades a person to give up their guns.

I can only conclude that person maybe should have even owned a gun in the first place.

Years ago, I use to care what anti-gun liberals thought, hell even to some degree cared about their feelings, and their fears.

What I realized is the more logic, proof, and facts that I used to debate them, the more emotional and illogical they became. It dawned on me that discussion with people that are anti-gun, is just futile and a wasted effort. I don't anymore.

If they want to be the victims of armed thugs and criminals, or the slaves of an oppressive governmental regime, then let them.

 

[skfullgun]

The folks who are convinced by this article have never seen evil in action. They truly believe that "all men are good", and that we should all just get along. For them it's a land of skittle rainbows and unicorns.
Let the electricity go off and they will see the true face of humanity.

Keeping with that thought, I read an article today that stated air conditioning is the biggest polluter and generator of greenhouse gases on the planet. I guess if you think about it, it's true. Yet, I don't see anybody suggesting that we all get rid of our a/c to save the planet.

 

[Grumps21]

While I certainly do not agree with this article, assuming they do ram through laws that essentially trample the 2A, how would they possiblly make people whose guns are confiscated or “bought back” whole again?
1) how would they value a gun? You can’t just arbitrarily put an across the board value. Purchase price isn’t a good indicator due to inflation. A $350 gun in 1970 might be a $2000 gun in today’s dollars.
2) there are accessories that in some cases are half as much of the gun that would be useless like holsters, safes, bags, slings, cases, cleaning stuff, reloading presses, optics, scopes, scope rings, silencers and associated tax stamps, etc. How would any of that be compensated?
3) what about all the ammo that would now useless?

I mean, for some folks, all the ancillary stuff could be as much or more that the guns they want to take. These gun grabbers talk like they can throw a number like $500 or $1000 per gun as a buy back, but that’s not really the case. Good thing I got rid of most of mine

 

[candcallen]

Regurgitated drivel.

 

[DoubleDuty]

Uh up to 3 million times a year firearms are used to prevent a crime or murder from happening. Hate these lying scum

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Sorry I'm just a great unwashed and base negro. It was a hard read for me.
I don't give a flying as to how much thought and mental gymnastics some think tanker and hallowed halls putz puts into this they have never been exposed to true evil.
I watched a old video from a family in Fla his wife didn't want a gun in the house. He got one she made him lock it up upstairs in the room.
Guess what home invasion her raped kids killed him killed..
So for all of the pontificating until you survived a desperate encounter and provide me proof that you negotiated your way out of and lived to tell the tale.
PLUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON

 

[2ManyGuns]

If a person owns guns, and reads an article written by some idiot, and that is what persuades a person to give up their guns.

I can only conclude that person maybe should have even owned a gun in the first place.

Years ago, I use to care what anti-gun liberals thought, hell even to some degree cared about their feelings, and their fears.

What I realized is the more logic, proof, and facts that I used to debate them, the more emotional and illogical they became. It dawned on me that discussion with people that are anti-gun, is just futile and a wasted effort. I don't anymore.

If they want to be the victims of armed thugs and criminals, or the slaves of an oppressive governmental regime, then let them.

I concur, BUT how do we remove these persons "stank" from our beloved country.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

I concur, BUT how do we remove these persons "stank" from our beloved country.

A .50 from 1k yards