I was pondering this earlier in the car.
One of the things that actually helps thwart bans, at least among those in the middle of the gun control debate (those in the far left nothing matters of course), is the fact that they know in the US there are something like 300 million guns (and voting owners) and of those guns/owners various estimates point to 30 million or so being the "evil" sort - with that number climbing by a million or more every year.
I don't know if I've ever really seen it pushed so publicly, I've not always paid attention, but what would you think if as a community we encouraged mass buying of "evil" rifles. Say instead of buying up that 1 million a year we bought 10 million for a few years in a row - pumping $$ into the system to help prop up the gun lobby, adding greater numbers on paper of "evil" rifle owners and making it even less practical to accomplish a ban or anything with a ban since so many more of these guns would exist.. I believe even when challenged in court one thing that's been looked at is how common a given gun/design is too.
Another strategy, which you see some versions of today but maybe could be grown upon, would be for gun manufacturers to further confuse things by increasing the scale of the "evil" platforms - ie put your bolt action upper on an evil AR15 platform, sell it to the boy scouts cheap by the crate in a .22 LR version, make a wood stock version on the same evil lower and market it to people who otherwise would never consider a black rifle etc.. etc..
Anyway - maybe some of this has happened in the past, but it seems like making the guns they hate so much even more common is something we do have control over, and could also help. Thoughts?
One of the things that actually helps thwart bans, at least among those in the middle of the gun control debate (those in the far left nothing matters of course), is the fact that they know in the US there are something like 300 million guns (and voting owners) and of those guns/owners various estimates point to 30 million or so being the "evil" sort - with that number climbing by a million or more every year.
I don't know if I've ever really seen it pushed so publicly, I've not always paid attention, but what would you think if as a community we encouraged mass buying of "evil" rifles. Say instead of buying up that 1 million a year we bought 10 million for a few years in a row - pumping $$ into the system to help prop up the gun lobby, adding greater numbers on paper of "evil" rifle owners and making it even less practical to accomplish a ban or anything with a ban since so many more of these guns would exist.. I believe even when challenged in court one thing that's been looked at is how common a given gun/design is too.
Another strategy, which you see some versions of today but maybe could be grown upon, would be for gun manufacturers to further confuse things by increasing the scale of the "evil" platforms - ie put your bolt action upper on an evil AR15 platform, sell it to the boy scouts cheap by the crate in a .22 LR version, make a wood stock version on the same evil lower and market it to people who otherwise would never consider a black rifle etc.. etc..
Anyway - maybe some of this has happened in the past, but it seems like making the guns they hate so much even more common is something we do have control over, and could also help. Thoughts?