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A gun-grabber hears from her mentor
Contributed by Phil Lee
With apologies to C. S. Lewis for my poor attempt at imitating him
and, like him, I have no intentions to explain how this message came
into my hands. Readers are reminded that gun control proponents are
liars and they even lie to each other.
Dear Delodious,
I understand your desire to guide your friend into the proper attitude
favoring gun control. But, I do think you are being naive in your
approach. You presume that you might persuade with facts and figures.
But, you should know that facts and figures lead to reasoning and,
frankly, reasoning is risky. Our enemy employs reasoning too by
constantly pointing out "more guns, less crime" is supported by data.
The risk of reasoning is that it creates a struggle on the enemy's
strongest ground. While we know that people are inherently weak and
violent and that guns should never be allowed to be owned by the
general public, the enemy has made advances in convincing common
people that they are good and responsible and that they have rights.
All of these advances are supported by reasoning and appeals to the
public's vanity about their basic decency.
No, no -- it will never do for you to use reason. Far better is to
play upon your friend's emotions. Our allies, the news media, will
present you almost daily reminders of the emotional toll cause by
killings with firearms. Our practical propaganda for child safety
locks is assisted approximately 50 times a year with children being
killed in firearm accidents. And each case is published nationally as
if it happened to your neighbors. Think of the material advantage
such news accounts give us.
But, if you let your friend look at these accidental death cases with
reason, unpleasant facts may be discovered such as, the gun belonged
to a police officer (generally not covered by child protection laws)
who was negligent or belonged to a drug dealer or belonged some other
person who is not subject to child protection laws. Your friend might
conclude that child protection laws are not effective because
accidents don't happen with the common people and we can't have that,
can we? Instead, bring those cases to your friend's attention, say
only something should be done and it is only common sense that guns
should be more severely limited to protect the children. But, don't
debate, don't persuade, don't argue with him because it may lead to
reason.
Even when a young gang member is killed over a drug territory, it is a
young life lost, a mother or sister crying, opportunity lost and great
sadness and, for us, it is another opportunity to persuade. You can
persuade by using that sadness and by comparing to England where such
killings do not happen because guns are banned. Unfortunately, you
must take care that this point isn't examined closely since other
violence in England is far higher than America. Give your quick
message, then move on.
Your purpose is to plant ideas firmly in his head that guns are
unnecessary, toys of the irresponsible, having no valid purpose,
dangerous and should be limited. The moment your friend begins to
reason with you by citing statistics, you need to claim both sides
have statistics and that statistics from the other side are merely gun
industry propaganda that defy common sense. Then, you should quickly
change the subject of discussion to lead away from reason.
Affectionately your mentor,
Sarah