Oh and just now on Morning Joe(Joe Scarborough) a right wing advocate for small government told the truth about guns. It is rare I find myself at all ever agreeing with him, but damn, I think he just single handedly and rightfully stuck it to a nasty industry that cares nothing about solving social problems.
He said what many already knew. This is not about gun ownership or the second amendment. This is about the typical scam that any business can concoct and exploit the public with. You set conditions to make society dependent on you, you use fear to keep them dependent on you, then you have a ready made buying base to sell a solution to. It is nothing about guns, but big money and their monopoly on the climate to maintain and expand the market, just like any other big business can do.
The coal industry was very abusive in West Virgina for a long time. The scam was that the mine owner would buy everything in town, the stores, and the housing, and pay the miners in company script creating legalized indentured slavery.
The gun industry is doing the same thing by creating mental slavery. Convince people that the world will end if we regulate guns. If there is less economic instability, and better mental health care, people wont feel the need as much to own a gun. Solving the gun problem is quite simple and will not require any force or fascism to get this epidemic under control.
Spread the word of how the scam works. Do that, people lose their fear.
On basic aspect of product marketing is to appeal to someone's insecurities. This works with makeup, weight loss, car insurance, just about anything one can sell. Gun manufacturing is no different than any other business. Understanding that is nothing more than appeal to vanity and insecurity is the key for the public to counter any big business and put healthy "supply and demand" back into the power of the buyer, and not the seller, where it should be.
The question isn't "Should people be allowed to own guns", the question is, what can we do to create better living conditions. The gun industry does not want to undermine it's own market and more than McDonalds wants to stop selling burgers and fries. However McDonalds is changing, some of it is by regulation, just like the car industry hated Nader, but adapted to his recommendations and now cars are better off because of his insistence of being a dick about it.
The same thing has to be done with the gun industry and the climate of fear it lives in, which is destructive. Gabby Giffords owns a gun herself, and most sane gun owners want things to change as much as I do. But the industry itself, the CEOs and shareholders of gun manufacturers have to have the same type of ethics and regulations that foster positive change in a society rather than simply exploit it.
He said what many already knew. This is not about gun ownership or the second amendment. This is about the typical scam that any business can concoct and exploit the public with. You set conditions to make society dependent on you, you use fear to keep them dependent on you, then you have a ready made buying base to sell a solution to. It is nothing about guns, but big money and their monopoly on the climate to maintain and expand the market, just like any other big business can do.
The coal industry was very abusive in West Virgina for a long time. The scam was that the mine owner would buy everything in town, the stores, and the housing, and pay the miners in company script creating legalized indentured slavery.
The gun industry is doing the same thing by creating mental slavery. Convince people that the world will end if we regulate guns. If there is less economic instability, and better mental health care, people wont feel the need as much to own a gun. Solving the gun problem is quite simple and will not require any force or fascism to get this epidemic under control.
Spread the word of how the scam works. Do that, people lose their fear.
On basic aspect of product marketing is to appeal to someone's insecurities. This works with makeup, weight loss, car insurance, just about anything one can sell. Gun manufacturing is no different than any other business. Understanding that is nothing more than appeal to vanity and insecurity is the key for the public to counter any big business and put healthy "supply and demand" back into the power of the buyer, and not the seller, where it should be.
The question isn't "Should people be allowed to own guns", the question is, what can we do to create better living conditions. The gun industry does not want to undermine it's own market and more than McDonalds wants to stop selling burgers and fries. However McDonalds is changing, some of it is by regulation, just like the car industry hated Nader, but adapted to his recommendations and now cars are better off because of his insistence of being a dick about it.
The same thing has to be done with the gun industry and the climate of fear it lives in, which is destructive. Gabby Giffords owns a gun herself, and most sane gun owners want things to change as much as I do. But the industry itself, the CEOs and shareholders of gun manufacturers have to have the same type of ethics and regulations that foster positive change in a society rather than simply exploit it.
