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[Brian37]

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

I think that was Charlton Hesston. 

I don't own firearms myself. But if I did, and my government said, "We need you to help us, could you give up this or that to help make the public safer?" I damned sure would consider it. I wouldn't be so damned paranoid as to assume they wanted to oppress me. It is no different than when smokers flipped out the more businesses banned indoor smoking. Many flipped out over that, but now banning indoor smoking is accepted. Smoking hasn't stopped though. 

This fearmongering by the far right cult worshipers to me is no different when you tell theists that their holy book has been used to justify violence. That isn't a call to ban all religions, but merely a statement of fact. 

Our flooded market is a huge problem and most certainly because of the few on the far right buying fear. 

I simply find it absurd anyone would argue that voting Democrat and points out that we have a problem is causing more gun sales. No, the sell of fear is causing more gun sales. Democrats don't want firearm owners to fear us. But those who want to reduce firearm violence should not be blamed for the marketing that preys upon that fear. The fear isn't being caused by us, but by the industries seeking to protect profits.