Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: A closer look: How many school shootings since Newtown? [View all]DonP
(6,185 posts)I started to realize that the gun control people are consciously choosing to ignore the "science", e.g. actual FBI and DoJ facts about violent/gun crime dropping precipitously, because it doesn't fit their narrative of "skyrocketing gun violence" and demands for more gun laws.
Identical to the climate change deniers, who choose to ignore any and all of the scientific facts placed before them and pointing to a heavy snowfall in the past 10 years as "proof" of their belief.
I guess science is only important to some Dems, if it matches your predetermined beliefs.
Worth noting that last week Mark Glaze, Executive Director for MAIG/Everytown USA/MDA left Bloomberg's employ and gave an exit interview to the WSJ on the current status of the gun control movement. Glaze said the gun control movement hasnt solved one of its signature problems: Many mass shootings wouldnt have been stopped by tighter regulations proposed by gun-control advocates.
(Emphasis mine.)
"The most attention on gun control comes after mass shootings just look at the post-Newtown push and the brief attention paid to the issue after the Memorial Day weekend shootings in Isla Vista, Calif. Yet virtually none of the solutions gun-control groups are pushing would have prevented any of the massacres that capture public attention."
Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy solutions that we have to offer and the way some of these mass shootings happened, you know, it is a messaging problem for us, I think.
Is it a messaging problem when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting? Sure its a challenge in this issue.
A messaging problem? It's a freakin' challenge because you were not offering any solutions Glaze! You were offering something to make the less informed feel good and, IMHO with children's lives at risk, that's bordering on criminal.
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