RE: It's True. You Can Tell A Lot About People
August 26, 2016 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2016 at 11:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That doesn't explain it at all. Manufacturers voluntarily go to the extra steps of added safety measures as a competitive edge, and no previous gun reform (or sensibly potential gun reform) has or would register as a blip on their profits. They make -more- money when this or that gun is banned, when people even talk about banning this or that model.
At some point, you have to start entertaining the notion that guns are a political prop to the NRA. OFC the manufacturers pay the gate fee to play the game, the NRA is the only one courting them. Maybe sensible people should court them, maybe sensible people should offer them a platform. They're a business, after all...they want to continue to exist, continue to turn a profit.
Or, I guess, we could keep doing what we're doing..wasting political capital on poorly informed (and completely ineffective) pipe dreams while alienating an industry that has a history of voluntary compliance with everything we hope to achieve with those pipe dreams....and simultaneously, flooding a nutball fringe with both real -and- political currency.
At some point, you have to start entertaining the notion that guns are a political prop to the NRA. OFC the manufacturers pay the gate fee to play the game, the NRA is the only one courting them. Maybe sensible people should court them, maybe sensible people should offer them a platform. They're a business, after all...they want to continue to exist, continue to turn a profit.
Or, I guess, we could keep doing what we're doing..wasting political capital on poorly informed (and completely ineffective) pipe dreams while alienating an industry that has a history of voluntary compliance with everything we hope to achieve with those pipe dreams....and simultaneously, flooding a nutball fringe with both real -and- political currency.
Quote:If this is the case, why are the NRA directors (if that's the right word for this group) pushing to block ANY gun-law reform?Bar setting for negotiations. They start it at "batshit crazy" knowing that they will -have- to be negotiated with, stacking the deck in favor of their own interests in any bargaining process. Bit like asking for $100 when I'll take $25. Everyone's happy, at the end. I get what I want, and the opposition can take their "success" at reducing my price back to whomever it matters to along with the product. Yet another service the NRA provides it's opponents.
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