A lot of second amendment education of the electorate will be facts and much will be a values system or way of life philosophy. Dan Bidstrup has one such piece April 27th which presents facts, and also combines his content with a values system which we believe we are losing. Connect these two – facts and what they signify to us – and you can more likely motivate the electorate.
Good work, Dan.
In examining college student objections to concealed carry on campus, Dan raises two important issues: psychodynamics at work in opposing second amendment rights [projection, he mentions] and how to reach these people.
The core truth is that the battle will not be won by turning anti-gun people into lovers of their sovereignty – by trying to win anti-gun debates, for instance. The battle will be won by motivating and invigorating those who feel they are losing their sovereignty and want it back. The battle will be won by educating people interested to begin with. We know that these Americans outnumber the haters of sovereignty. We know that these Americans outnumber the people who do not want to learn because of inner demons of their own.
- I have a free report which might help identify a useful tool in educating and invigorating the electorate who wants to keep our sovereignty. There's a little ‘brain talk' in that report. You'll need the Adobe Reader to open it and you can get both here.
College students asked Dan similar questions I get when my article appears and generates reader response: "If [insert your name here] is so sold on self-defense guns, why don't we hear about those stories?"
I think all questions are useful, and they ought to be asked of Dan and of me and of every liberty writer. In fact, it might be a very good idea for readers to ask precisely what they want to know. If you don't know what you want to know, ask anyway. You'll get there.
Pretty soon, the anti-gun problem (and all of its daughter programs just hounding America) may take care of themselves as more of the electorate understands what it is about guns to begin with. The average reasonable person can comprehend second amendment values and how they operate in nearly every corner of our society.
That's the reason the second amendment is under attack. It's the place to start for what we're all putting up with today. And tomorrow.
It's good to know that many college students come to learn. It may be tough to grasp at first, but with enough students who advocate concealed carry on campus and with enough questions, it is to find the very thing you came to college for. Understanding.
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Comments
I hate to disagree with any of your cogent and clearly presented arguments, but I must make an exception.
I think no person in the United States who's in a position of reponsibility or whose voice is widely heard objects in any way to retaining the Second Amendment to our Constitution. Even New York City's Mayor Bloomberg and his merry band of nooks and crannies posing as legitimate spokemen for their constituencies will tell us, if they are asked, that they remain steadfastly in support of the Great Second.
Their sole proposal is that we change the language of the Second to prohibit "keeping and bearing" rather than to enjoin against that right.
Let us reason together. ;-)
"The core truth is that the battle will not be won by turning anti-gun people into lovers of their sovereignty – by trying to win anti-gun debates, for instance."
Correct! The biggest conversion to occur will be when they become targets of the oppressors in such a manner they cannot deny. Not even for their own emotional comfort. Sadly, I think that day is not far off.
Flavet, you misunderstand Bloomberg. He's not in support of the Second Amendment. In his pathological mind, ANY firearm not controlled by the police or military, is an "illegal gun". His avowed goal is to spread NYC style gun control to all 50 states.
Hey safer streets are good. We need to do whatever is needed to ensure that happens.
Lou
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