RE: Fucking NRA
September 30, 2016 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2016 at 2:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's what people think, but it's more accurate to say that they are the pocket that others are in. Manufacturers give them money because they feel that what the NRA has is more valuable than the money they;re willing to give for it. It;s a sober and factual assessment on their part - regardless of what lunacy the NRA spouts in the course of the operation of their model.
Manufacturers make a product that people want. Advertisers push a message that people want to hear. A -manufacturers- busines model is -always- the same. Produce a marketable product at a price point that allows for an acceptable roi. Fear has nothing to do with that. Now I can;t personally vouch for why every person who buys a gun buys one..but I've never bought one for fear...and I know a hell of alot of people who prefer a different kind of ad copy (like tech specs and range trials that blow the competition out of the water). The NRA doesn't want you to buy a gun, they're not even honestly -in- the gun business. To them, it's a useful pretext, as I said, a wedge. They want to scare you into voting for their list of approved candidates and legislation. More than anything else, they want this to be profitable in both economic and political terms -for themselves-. The manufacturers are a client to be squeezed of pennies, same as the rest of us. Did anyone see a commercial for a gun, in the OP video? Nope. That's not the product they're peddling.
Maybe, jjust maybe, if some saner group or person would advocate for the necessities of the manufacturers businesses, they'd put themselves in that groups pocket...but so long as the people chiefly motivated towards this sort of legislation can take themselves no further than "guns bad, manufacturers evil"....that;s never going to happen. Our national idiocy regarding gun control has -handed- the NRA those keys. We flatly -refuse- to discuss our actual gun problem, the proxy problems we invent for purposes of stumping are...from the bottom to the top, ludicrous claims and flat out bold faced lies......and it's better for everyone principally involved if it remains this way. It serves the purposes of government, it serves the purposes of the nra. A data based assessment of the gun problem we have would expose both parties for what they are, and what they've been doing. In this case, even ideological enemies have agreed to maintain the silence on that issue, between them, for glaringly obvious reasons.
Fear, in any case, is the tool that both sides of this political divide apparently see best suited to compelling people to vote, yay or nay, for any given specific. One side tells you big bad giovernment wants to steal your guns. The other that your kids are going to be shot any moment now because of evil corporations. Neither claim is remotely true.
Manufacturers make a product that people want. Advertisers push a message that people want to hear. A -manufacturers- busines model is -always- the same. Produce a marketable product at a price point that allows for an acceptable roi. Fear has nothing to do with that. Now I can;t personally vouch for why every person who buys a gun buys one..but I've never bought one for fear...and I know a hell of alot of people who prefer a different kind of ad copy (like tech specs and range trials that blow the competition out of the water). The NRA doesn't want you to buy a gun, they're not even honestly -in- the gun business. To them, it's a useful pretext, as I said, a wedge. They want to scare you into voting for their list of approved candidates and legislation. More than anything else, they want this to be profitable in both economic and political terms -for themselves-. The manufacturers are a client to be squeezed of pennies, same as the rest of us. Did anyone see a commercial for a gun, in the OP video? Nope. That's not the product they're peddling.
Maybe, jjust maybe, if some saner group or person would advocate for the necessities of the manufacturers businesses, they'd put themselves in that groups pocket...but so long as the people chiefly motivated towards this sort of legislation can take themselves no further than "guns bad, manufacturers evil"....that;s never going to happen. Our national idiocy regarding gun control has -handed- the NRA those keys. We flatly -refuse- to discuss our actual gun problem, the proxy problems we invent for purposes of stumping are...from the bottom to the top, ludicrous claims and flat out bold faced lies......and it's better for everyone principally involved if it remains this way. It serves the purposes of government, it serves the purposes of the nra. A data based assessment of the gun problem we have would expose both parties for what they are, and what they've been doing. In this case, even ideological enemies have agreed to maintain the silence on that issue, between them, for glaringly obvious reasons.
Fear, in any case, is the tool that both sides of this political divide apparently see best suited to compelling people to vote, yay or nay, for any given specific. One side tells you big bad giovernment wants to steal your guns. The other that your kids are going to be shot any moment now because of evil corporations. Neither claim is remotely true.
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