U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The media missed again. We saw a coordinated media campaign thrown against legal gun owners immediately after the horrible murders at the school in Parkland, Florida.
That campaign wasn’t spontaneous.
The media went into action even before the crime scene was cleaned up or the facts were known. The prepared scripts were dragged out. We were lied to, and the usual well-worn bromides were used in order to make us feel a particular way. The public relations campaign to make us feel guilty cost millions of dollars..yet it didn’t work. We not only rejected the PR campaign, we threw their lies right back at them. We’ve learned many lessons as we’ve been lied to time after time by the mainstream media.
Here is what happened this time and what we did in response.
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- The media said we suffer from an epidemic of mass murder. Because of this epidemic, we needed to disarm the people who didn’t do it. In fact, we were lied to about how often schools are attacked. (Though both are tragic, someone committing suicide at a school that has been closed for months is not an armed school rampage.) We know that licensed concealed carry holders are more law abiding than even the police. We rejected the idea that the hundred million gun owners in the US committed the murders in Florida.
- The “news media” served up crisis actors in a scripted soap opera. This “news” was sold to us as a “Town Hall discussion.” I’m sure some of us believed it was real. Many of us didn’t. We saw “students” attend “spontaneous grassroots demonstrations” funded by political operatives.
- We were told that the real murderer in Florida was the organization that trains most firearms instructors. This same organization, the National Rifle Association, is also involved with the largest firearms safety programs in the world.
- We saw Hollywood hype rise to new levels. There were hundreds of armed guards at the Oscar awards ceremony while actors said that the rest of us should be disarmed for our own protection. We were told that we’d be safer if the government was armed and we were disarmed.
- Democrat congressmen proposed a bill out outlaw most guns. These dangerous firearms are too much for an 18 year old to own..but people 18 years old and younger are mature enough to drive a car, have an abortion, get married, join the military, and to vote. No wonder I’m confused. These lies don’t make sense.
What did we do in the face of these lies? We joined the NRA and other firearms organizations.
Over the last two weeks, the rate of new memberships has jumped 10 fold at the Second Amendment Foundation. We can only speculate what happened with NRA membership, but I suspect it increased..a lot.
Acquaintances who don’t own guns told me they resented the media propaganda and joined the NRA. People from outside the US joined the NRA..I assume for the same reasons. The NRA did not release its membership numbers when I called and e-mailed them. We know that the number of people searching to join the NRA went up almost 50 fold.
It worked before, so why did the propaganda campaign backfire this time?
I think we’re older and wiser. We’ve learned from past lies. The media tried to spin the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign as historically significant and unstoppable. We didn’t believe them. We formed our own opinions instead of accepting theirs. We decided that a sociopathic liar who is married to a serial sex predator wasn’t the person we needed in the White House. Not only did we reject the media narrative, we opposed it at the ballot box.
I think we’re doing the same thing again. The “Trump slump” that reduced gun sales may be coming to an end. We joined the NRA rather than cancelling memberships as we were supposed to do. We’ve seen a surge of teachers who want to legally carry a firearm rather than putting up more plastic no-guns signs at school.
It looks like we’re not buying the media narrative. Let’s assume that the people running these campaigns are smart professionals. They already know that we don’t believe them. That means we are not the real the target of this PR campaign. The purpose isn’t to convince the public, but to stampede politicians. Now, more than ever, when the media lies, we have to tell our politicians the truth.
About Rob Morse
The original article is here. Rob Morse writes about gun rights at Ammoland, at Clash Daily, and on his SlowFacts blog. He hosts the Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast and co-hosts the Polite Society Podcast. Rob is an NRA pistol instructor and combat handgun competitor.
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Oh, boy. Who could have predicted this?
The gang of whining kids has zero credibility (especially among parents, who know better than to be swayed by a 17 year-old’s “wisdom”), and the Zionist media has lost all credibility years ago, but these are the only straws they have to grasp at in their present state of desperation.
You’re seeing the obnoxious brats on TV because it’s the only crowd the Zionists can muster to support gun control these days, as even “liberals” see the necessity of being armed now. The kids will say whatever they’re told just for the promise of being on TV, but no one is listening to them, and most of America wants them to shut their brat faces.
They’re going to have trouble getting cops to disarm people, because they probably know better, so they’re going to have to move to the next level, which will involve foreign invasion, or wetback attacks. The NWO advance will not stop as long as they can find idiots to die for them, but due to our efforts at educating people, they’re running out of idiots. (hard to believe as that may be, people are waking up, and they’re not likely to trust anything that comes out of our “government” anymore).