melchloboo
New member
I may be biased, but it seems to me that we gun owners attempt to advance our views through appeals to facts, logic and reason. And yet, we are only marginally successful. Some might argue we are losing ground.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the way other "special interest" groups have been successful in this country. They don't use logic and reason. They use emotional appeals. They use glamor (Hollywood). They use peer pressure.
In my view, there are plenty of judges/justices who are more swayed by those kinds of appeals (though they would never admit it) than by facts, reason, and logic. I believe from a social and political standpoint it may be time for a different approach to gun rights.
In my lifetime a number of "special interest" groups have led the courts to "discover" new rights, yet we struggle to defend one we've always had. What are they doing and right and what are we doing wrong?
Before I more formally write my thoughts, I'd like some input from the forum on my general theme.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the way other "special interest" groups have been successful in this country. They don't use logic and reason. They use emotional appeals. They use glamor (Hollywood). They use peer pressure.
In my view, there are plenty of judges/justices who are more swayed by those kinds of appeals (though they would never admit it) than by facts, reason, and logic. I believe from a social and political standpoint it may be time for a different approach to gun rights.
In my lifetime a number of "special interest" groups have led the courts to "discover" new rights, yet we struggle to defend one we've always had. What are they doing and right and what are we doing wrong?
Before I more formally write my thoughts, I'd like some input from the forum on my general theme.