(February 21, 2021 at 12:07 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 21, 2021 at 11:56 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I guess you missed the tongue in cheek
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To clarify.
Nobody is marketing fear - at least not that I have seen.
When you see the shelves cleared off on a gunshop' s shelf - it's not marketing genius by the marketing department of Smith and Wesson or Federal Ammunition. It' s because many right leaning gun owners have listened to the left leaners who want to stick huge taxes on guns and ammo - or outlaw types of guns. Of course this is not the entire left - but a portion of it - and those people on the right pay attention.
When you get some nutter like Diane Feinstein who wants to outlaw handguns (she did while Mayor of San Francisco in the mid 80's) the right pays heed. She is forever labeled the enemy. ANYTHING she now does is suspect.
No.. It's not fear or disinformation - it's long memories.
Of course they’re marketing fear. Gun sales spike because the right keep singing the tired old song that the Democrats are coming for your guns. Never mind that this has never happened (please cite the most recent gun confiscation enacted under a Democratic presidency), all that matters is that people believe the fairy tale.
I don’t know who coined the phrase, ‘They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead hand’, but I’ll wager it wasn’t anyone on the left.
Boru
Let's see you buy a. 50 Barrett M82 in California.
You can't. The ( D )s that be prohibited it....
