A good day for public firearm awareness.

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wacki

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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to digg:

http://digg.com/politics

In August 2005 it had 17,000 registered users.
In July 2006 it had 500,000 registered users.
In January 2007 it has ?????? (probably a LOT more)

I have no clue how many lurkers there are. All I know is that it creates so much traffic and crashes websites so often it has a nickname "digg effect".

Digg is a user driven news service. People submit stories and other users select which ones they want to get to the front page. It is known for crashing websites due to insanely high traffic flow. Although anyone can join the website there reasonable (i.e. not loony bin Daily Kos) left wing slant to be seen on digg.

I posted a few NRA stats + link and then went to a bunch of gun forums/chatrooms/etc and told people to digg up the article and take part in the discussion:

http://digg.com/politics/Something_that_gun_control_advocates_don_t_like_to_hear

Now it's on the front page

http://digg.com/politics

with ~1,200 diggs and ~350 comments. That may not sound like much but this means tens of thousands of people, right and left, just visited the NRA website. This is a great way to reach out and educate people about firearms. And the best part is that it's free. If you read the comments in the thread, it's obvious some people changed their mind about firearms.

That is all. Just wanted to share the good news. :-D
 
Sounds like a usefull tool for getting info spread..
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It is THE tool to spread info. People will complain about how reporters are slanted toward the left and hate guns. At Digg the readers decide what stories get read and Digg's readership is gigantor. This tool is very powerful.
 
One of my favorite posts from that thread, made in response to an anti:

You've been fisked, debunked, and dugg down.

Your argument is specious, maliciously misinforming, and wrong.

You are racist, classist, elitist, and a sorry excuse for a leftist.

All of us Liberals are shamed by being associated with you.

"I just might stop using Digg if this is the kind of crap that makes it on."

Good. Bye now. Anti-gunners like you are no longer welcome in the Liberal tent. Go away.

Sincerely,

--A True Liberal
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We pro-gun progressives aren't going to let right-wingers lump us in with the Brady Bunch anymore.
 
Regarding the actual article and the FBI crime statistics; Do does anyone know where I can get a hold of the FBI source date/article? I am a member of some other forums, non-firearm forums to be precise. And there is a pretty even spread of left and right leaning people who frequent these forums. I would like to post the article about lower crime rates in Right to Carry states, but if I submit a story hosted on NRA, it's going to be called slanted BS. So any idea where I can get the source story about crime rates? Preferably from a .gov site.
 
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