New Concept: "COMMON SENSE GUN RIGHTS"

[oaklander]

The anti-gunners scored a public relations (PR) victory when they coined the phrase "common sense gun laws."

I think I even know which PR firm they may have used for this (since I used to work in PR, and know some of the firms).

Folks - this was ALL PUBLIC RELATIONS. Because "gun control, inc." is a top-down group funded by large groups, they are experts at using PR. We are not experts (yet), since we are grass roots.

BUT - I know PR. . .



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Since that's the case, I would like people to start using the phrase "common sense gun rights."

For example:

1) It's simply common sense that it should be just as easy for a law-abiding citizen to acquire a gun as it is for a criminal to acquire a gun. Why punish someone for following the law? That does not make sense.

2) It's simply common sense that law-abiding citizens should be allowed to carry a defensive pistol for self defense, since the criminals already do. And again, why punish someone for being law-abiding?

3) It's simply common sense to allow law-abiding gun owners to buy ammunition for their guns, without needless red-tape. The criminals already have a black market for ammunition, so why make law-abiding citizens jump through hoops?

The point of all of this is that for firearms to be true defensive weapons, they need to be available to law-abiding citizens, free of needless red tape. As a matter of social policy, you NEVER want to make things so that citizens can't get guns, since criminals can ALWAYS get guns.

Again - common sense!

Just look at D.C. to see what happens when "common sense gun control" gets put into place. . .

So remember - the phrase now is "common sense gun rights."

Try it, you will like it!!!!

[ZombieTactics]

I like it, I like it a lot.

[DiscoBayJoe]

I like it!

[glockman19]

"Common Sense"...like maybe following the law rather than interpreting it?

The 2A is crystal clear...It's the interpretation that is messed up.

No word in the 2A is longer than 9 letters those being, "regulated" and "necessary". It is only 27 words. what is the difficulty in understanding this simple concisely written statement?

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

[Southwest Chuck]

I had always thought we needed to turn that phrase (Common Sense) to our advantage. I think you have a winner here. The distinction has to be made and emphasized as to the "Gun Rights" portion of the phrase. I think it would not only catch the eye/ears of the "ignorant" anti's, but also of fence sitters, at least enough to read our RTKBA perspective of the issues. It's a good, persuasive term that can open doors

Good job Oak!

[Southwest Chuck]

So, is the domain "Common Sense Gun Rights.org" taken ?

[KOTU]

i guess its common sense that criminals dont follow laws, so gun laws don't do anything except disarm law-abiding citizens... why cant the anti's see this?!

[barthel]

Common Sense is a great idea. Unfortunately there seems to be little of it around. =(

[rimfire78]

Waking up......smelling coffee........

[thefinger]

nice!

[Maestro Pistolero]

I like it very much, and can see mostly good coming from diluting and confusing their message. As a remedial counter-move, it is brilliant. It does, however, have the same ring to it, and could serve to inadvertently multiply the sticking effect of the original phrase. That, of course would NOT be good.

It is even more effective to proactively create PR terms that can embed themselves in the language (i.e. the anti's assault-weapon, gun-show loophole, etc).

One fantastic recent example of our side coining a phrase which has some sticking power is the term constitutional-carry. It's powerful, descriptive, and unassailable (unless one admits to being anti-constitution). I think we could use that term, building on its already considerable foundation, stretch it's present meaning to encompass all forms of carry reform, even shall-issue/self-defense-as-good-cause efforts.

After all, isn't it our position that shall-issue essentially IS constitutional carry, if LOC is prohibited?

And now that it is written into the law in AZ and two or three other states, constitutional-carry as a national term gains a foothold, increases in credibility, and become part of the popular vernacular. It doesn't get any better than that from a PR standpoint.

[putput]

I like it and I'm in.



They use REASONABLE a lot as well...

[Uriah02]

But Common Sense is dead...

[bob1911]

I like it very much!

Common sense (constitutional) carry

(I wish that common sense was as common as the name implies.)

Bob

P.S. I wish this applied in Crook co. Illanoy.

[Librarian]

But Common Sense is dead...

On the contrary, Common Sense lives!

PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question, (and in matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry,) and as the king of England hath undertaken in his own right, to support the parliament in what he calls theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either.