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Originally Posted by PhilA
Thing is, Skuggi, as gun owners we have to have our stuff absolutely buttoned up. We're already the underdog, so any chance we have to make our case means we have to take the high road.
We need to be seen as credible, articulate and rational. Which sometimes means following the old adage: 'Tis sometimes better to remain quiet and let people think you're ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Not that we should remain moot on issues we feel passionate about, but certain websites/opinions/rants do more harm than good.
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I have all that, and have been using it, But people do not want to learn. They do not care. They're right and that's that.
What does it take to change this kind of persons perspective? Well my multiple gigs of information doesn't help. What helps is when they've been put in the situation that the police couldn't protect them. I get people that come to me after they've been robbed, assaulted and raped. I teach them self defense, I also suggest they obtain a firearm. Most of the time before the incident they were also against guns (Not all but a good majority.).
One thing that does work is to make them think, facts they are told are scewed by the other side. Plain numbers, Or a simple senario. I.E. "If I put a gun in your pocket right now, does that rule that you can't have a gun at X place stop you from walking inside?" "If we banned guns today, would a crack dealer also give up his guns? He hasn't given up his crack yet has he?". Plain and simple numbers without any BS around. Something that's like the blogs, from a normal person that they already read and don't believe that this person would lie to them. That's how they think, and if you show them all this professional stuff at first they think it's a very well fabricated lie with everything paid for VIA the NRA.