A word to the wise... in 'off-year' elections, several gun boards I frequent get visited by what I like to call 'DNC plants”- although that terminology can apply to any party.
They arrive in late spring with the copperheads and mosquitoes, and like those other nuisances they disappear by the first snow- late November or so. They are moderately literate on firearms subject matter but if you check their posts regularly, you will find that their primary purpose is to sway the uninformed away from solid 2A legislators- and to represent known gun-controllers in a favorable light. “Kerry really IS a hunter!” or “Bush Tried to Ban Colt Single Actions in Texas” or something equally absurd.
We saw this phenomenon at XDTalk last year, and a good friend that mods a 1911 board reports similar traffic in the same season. Now you might think this is of no consequence, and that anyone who didn’t just fall off the turnip truck would automatically just [I[know[/I] better. But-keep in mind that they are going after first-time voters; folks who probably haven’t formed an opinion yet, based on verifiable fact.
Is this tactic effective?
I think that question is best answered with another question:
“How’d we do in the last election?”
So my advice is this- No matter what any politician or party sycophant says about a particular candidate, their defining earmarks are:
· How they have voted on 2A issues,
· Their public record of statements on 2A topics, and
· Where their campaign money is coming from.
That info is out there, folks. There is absolutely no excuse for letting your vote be influenced by “What invssgt said” or anyone else. Check it out, keep your ear to the ground and then make a decision based on your own common sense and values.
To do anything less is to throw away your vote…and we wouldn’t want to do THAT now would we?
