TRT in Boulder gets slammed by Sierra Times

A note on Darrell Mulroy

I have seen the recent pro-RKBA work done by the author of this article. He has done more than 99% of us here, quietly, without asking for accolades.

He helps pro-RKBA groups with web support. Provides pro-freedom testimony in court cases and on TV shows. He might not be the most charming individual around but he's good people.

With that in mind, I'd like to take his article seriously. Don't have to agree but would like to think about it, at least.

Oleg
 
How many RKBA activist can dance on the head of a pin?

Answer:

Apparently not very many. I have been to protests time and time again, some promo-ed on talk radio and the best we can do is have the same half-dozen show up. Every once in a while we can get a dozen, maybe two dozen.

The important thing is that we must get people to show up, that is, they have to turn off their computers and step outside their homes and submit an address card at a State Legislature hearing or your monthly city council meeting. Bring a friend or three.

Yeah, the anonymous internet has caused us to think that most people look like us. But, darn it, when you actually log off and head down to city hall you see that some folks aren't too pretty, don't speak too well, and tend to offend the people who want to infringe on their rights. But these fashion-freaks are still out there demonstrating for their rights while most of you think activism is hitting the "Send" button.

I'll take smelly shoe-leather activism to perfumed internet debate any day.

Rick
 
I worked in Boulder for a while. The popular saying:

"26 square miles surrounded by reality".

That pretty much sums it up. Believe me, there are strange folks on both sides up there. Remember, They could'nt even find the killer of the Ramsey girl, but god forbid, you get caught smoking or jwalking. You will be tarred and feathered at the minimum.

That is what the 60's and 70's drug culture did to Boulder. When you only have 1/3 to 1/2 your brain working, what do you expect.

It is not much different now. As the kids attending school there, go a a liberal arts college (CU) and are "love children".
 
The whole problem is there is no discription of Gun Case, It could in my opinion be a paper bag with a pic of a gun or the letters GUN on it.
I see my gun case as being a fanny pack with a compact 9mm in it with the Big letters "GUN" and a T-shirt that says
"DONT **** WITH ME!!! and the magazine in my pocket
 
I agree with Dennis and others.

"It's just another attempt to make gun ownership too expensive for folks with little discretionary income.

That policy is unconstitutional. Period. No question.

"... shall not be infringed" says it all.
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Either you believe in the Second Amendment or you don't!
Stay the course! Stick it to 'em! RKBA!"

How dare we protest in anything less than armani?! Just who do we think we are anyway? We must meet them on their middle ground, grovel, and beg for them not to take what is every human's right.

MOLON LABE!
 
Pherphaps the Sierra times would prefer
we not respond to Tyranny?
Then wed look a lot prettier to the press
and peole like Robert would be able to go
sell cars so that like the
politicians the media ignores hed simply
be lining his own pockets.
Or he could become an editor who can sit back
and watch the actions of others and so easily
criticize them from a distance when they arent
involved and often not even affected by the
actions going on.
Sounds a lot easier than beating the bushes
day after day organizes hundreds of people
who are affected by the rambling restrictions of
such facist politicians who walk over us no matter
what our views are and getting them together
to voice their opinoin.
Not by wimply lobbyist just looking to play politics
(Wayne Lapierre) and do the least amount of fighting
possible to still loook good and get paid by its members
but to get in their face as Robert said and express from
the heard our feelings.
It seems with the rulers/politicans writing whatever
laws the media calls reasonable this is all we have left
to do and Rober and the Tyranny Response Team are among
the few willing to do so and until I hear Lapierre's
words "we support reasonable gun legislation" Im behind
him and the TRT 100%!!!


I would have let the TRT insult go as a badly mouthed
comment about hygeine but Mr.Teesdale helped put it
in better perspective for all of us Im sure.
 
Lemme try again: We're not going to change the minds of the Antis. All we can do is out-vote them. A way to get more votes is to persuade the "neutral"/"undecided"/"not-particularly-interested" that we are in the right. It's this swing-vote group that I'm proposing to cater to. The middle-of-the-road group ALWAYS controls elections. Didn't you notice that both Gore and Bush catered to that group in the last three months of the campaign?

We know the media is going to present us in the worst possible light. They always have, they always will. So, by looking "like everyone else", we steal some of their ammo.

Ever watch the TV news after a tornado? They always find the dumb, ugly fat woman in a housecoat with pink curlers in her hair--and ask some question she can't possibly answer. All I'm saying is don't be the pro-gun equivalent of that woman.

The TRT is a Good Thing. Protesting in public, letting the elected officials know we won't go away is a Good Thing. But we need more numbers for *our* candidates at election time, and we won't get them from that middle group if we fit the Mediahhh's misrepresentation of us. Yes, we need more hard-core pro-gun folks to show up and protest--larger numbers from within our own group. But we can't succeed without the "positive public perception". You can't get that without *appearing* to be what they think they, themselves, would look like or act like...

Art
 
Don't back down

The only thing we can do to make the media talk nice about us is if we adopt the anti-gun stance.

Neville Chamberlin learned that appeasement with the bad guys is not a winning proposition.

Rick
 
Let me put it this way: when in the woods, you can wear cammies that looklike leaves...when in the city, a business suit is very effective camouflage. You are welcome to wear a redcoat and look dashing but that's bad news when charging repeaters. I hate formal wear but have worn it when going to rallies just to deny the stereotype images to the anti propaganda crews.
 
RickD, the media will never talk nice about us. My point is that by presenting a certain appearance when doing the TRT thing, the media can't misprepresent us a a bunch of grunters and mouth-breathers. And while they probably would try to do so, their own cameras would prove them to be the liars that they are.

In no way am I suggesting that we please the media or expect to change the minds of the antis. I am saying that we need to reassure the uncommitted that we are "just like them" and do indeed have a rational argument. So far, we've let the media and antis give their own misrepresentations of us. The uncommitted is the group we need the most--we're just like anybody trying to win in any political issue.

To put a twist on Oleg's comment: Your favorite pastime may be marathon sex, but that doesn't mean you go naked to the office.

Art
 
Fair 'nuff.

Look at it this way. If you have a certain number of (protestors, speaker, demonstrators) in suits, then you can also have a certain number in Dockers. When you have all that, you add a sprinkle of TRT just to make the bad guys know that we mean business.

The "problem" is, that the type who would wear suits are not the type to bother to show up to these things. It often takes a real in-your-face attitude to muster the courage (or outrage) to show up. With that attitude comes people who ashew the coat and tie thing. They don't want to blend in. The people who blend in are those who say "I don't want to go to a City Council meeting cuz then they'll know who I am."

The TRTer (or TUGer in Arizona) knows that hiding is what the bad guys want us to do. The TRT/TUG person says, "Hey, A$$hole. Here I am. Molon Labe!"

Have you ever seen steroided football players dressed in designer suits and ties? Muscled necks bulging to over-flowing from the collar? Looks almost comical. Not nearly as intimidating as the same man with eye-black.

As far as I am concerned, our cause has too few people showing up to begin b|tching about what they wear.

Rick
 
Robert T. is right. Every social movement has to have both its wild-eyed radicals to get anywhere, and its moderates to reassure everyone that "they're just like us." Both parts of a movement are essential to success in American politics. Malcolm made Martin look moderate; Andrea Dworkin makes Hillary look moderate.
 
IT TAKES US ALL!

I think I've said that before in other posts! I have been to demonstrations and yes it is always "us" outnumbered. One thing I have gotten out of it is that these groups are always diverse, Grass Roots, John Birch, GOA, NRA, TRT, REF, you name it. The press hates it when they ask, "who organized this" and you say, no one, we are individuals here to stand up for our Constitutional rights. They want a target so bad you can see it. I don't agree with the "spokesman" take, let them interview everyone. By the way the end line to the newscamera with the tornado interview is a Jeff Foxworthy line... I looked out and saw Maybelle's trailer flying through the air and thought, well hell there goes my casserole dish"! Let's stay the course, keep the powder dry and see if we can design formal wear for the TRT. I'm thinkin a tux with big red, blood dripping letters spelling out TRT on the back! It will probably hide my pot-belly too! Mine will of course have the letters ESAD on the lapel!
 
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