Glenn E. Meyer
New member
In the current moral panic, some have advocated hunkering down and presented the position that trying to convince people of the merit of the RKBA position is useless. I opined and others have that it is a losing strategy to dismiss the chance of changing opinion or trying to reach progun folks across any political party (not going to politics again to discuss specific parties!).
Thus, my good friend Karl Rehn posted this on his blog - http://blog.krtraining.com/i-was-an-emotional-uninformed-gun-control-supporting-high-schooler-once/
I had a similar view also, coming from an urban background that saw little need for guns and had no strong gun culture. I went through a personal journey to realize the need for the RKBA. Had a write up on a website that I was asked to write, but the site seems defunct. Oh, well.
It is a similar evolution to the attitude change that some of us have gone through on various civil rights and social/attitudinal positions. The prejudices of the past were seen to be what they were.
Thus, I would say that folks do change, situations and personal experiences aid in this, cognitive reasoning helps.
Look at it this way. We see supposed gun folk abandoning the RKBA after an incident. Their attitudes changed. Why is it that we abandon the hope and attempts for attitude change? Do we acknowledge some implicit prejudice that our position is really not worthy? Thus, we go to the bunker and wait for defeat while engaging in self-limiting group polarization?
Just a thought or two.
Thus, my good friend Karl Rehn posted this on his blog - http://blog.krtraining.com/i-was-an-emotional-uninformed-gun-control-supporting-high-schooler-once/
I had a similar view also, coming from an urban background that saw little need for guns and had no strong gun culture. I went through a personal journey to realize the need for the RKBA. Had a write up on a website that I was asked to write, but the site seems defunct. Oh, well.
It is a similar evolution to the attitude change that some of us have gone through on various civil rights and social/attitudinal positions. The prejudices of the past were seen to be what they were.
Thus, I would say that folks do change, situations and personal experiences aid in this, cognitive reasoning helps.
Look at it this way. We see supposed gun folk abandoning the RKBA after an incident. Their attitudes changed. Why is it that we abandon the hope and attempts for attitude change? Do we acknowledge some implicit prejudice that our position is really not worthy? Thus, we go to the bunker and wait for defeat while engaging in self-limiting group polarization?
Just a thought or two.