Saw a "gun sense" booth today

[philo]

Went to the Bloomington farmer's market this morning. There is a row of "informational" booths on the backside of the actual market. There was one booth labeled something like "Gun Sense for Indiana". It definitely didn't refer directly to MDA, but a quick look at their flyers showed that gun control was their intent. The were also taking signatures on a petition. Looked like they had about 6 names.

Next week I'll wear my INGO shirt and stop at the booth to see if they notice. Last week I wore my PETA shirt (subtitled "people eating tasty animals") while I shopped with the vegetarians. Today it was only an Appleseed hat - I hadn't expected to stop at the market at all.

 

[youngda9]

You didn't go talk with them...you could've had so much fun. Switch to OC immediately and go chat up the ladies !

 

[venenoindy]

I want to set up a booth right next to them to get enough signatures to throw in jail the politicians that violates people's rights, starting from the president and a few others that I know.

 

[87iroc]

Fun can be had if they come back

 

[OWGEM]

Antagonism has always been successful in influencing peoples choices hasn't it?


And I wonder why the subject of guns is always so polarizing.

 

[rbMPSH12]

Went to the Bloomington farmer's market this morning. There is a row of "informational" booths on the backside of the actual market. There was one booth labeled something like "Gun Sense for Indiana". It definitely didn't refer directly to MDA, but a quick look at their flyers showed that gun control was their intent. The were also taking signatures on a petition. Looked like they had about 6 names.

Next week I'll wear my INGO shirt and stop at the booth to see if they notice. Last week I wore my PETA shirt (subtitled "people eating tasty animals") while I shopped with the vegetarians. Today it was only an Appleseed hat - I hadn't expected to stop at the market at all.

I saw the same booth at the Btown farmers' market today. I believe it said "I'm a gun-sense voter" or something like that.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I'd have pulled my shirt back over my IWB so I was OC and gone up there and said "Gun sense, eh? So, you're in favor of the second amendment, then?" Just to watch their heads explode. Ask Mrs E, she'll tell you I'd do it.

 

[ModernGunner]

Bleh, let them die on the vine. Whiners gon' whine, haters gon' hate.

6 signatures? Oh yeah, they're 'successful'. Probably 4 of those were from the same yabo, just making up names.

 

[Light]

Would be a pretty funny sight to OC while also talking to them about possibly donating to their cause and such, lol.

 

[ModernGunner]

Oh yeah, and do NOT talk to them:

 

[BogWalker]

Antagonism has always been successful in influencing peoples choices hasn't it?


And I wonder why the subject of guns is always so polarizing.

If they're volunteering their time to run such a booth they're probably beyond reasoning with. Might as well have a little fun at their expense.

 

[JetGirl]

Next week I'll wear my INGO shirt and stop at the booth to see if they notice.

Why not (instead) go informed and ask them to back up their beliefs with facts: Gun Facts - Debunking Gun Control Myths

 

[OWGEM]

If they're volunteering their time to run such a booth they're probably beyond reasoning with. Might as well have a little fun at their expense.

And confirm their beliefs that all gun owners are gun flashing cowboys? Why lower yourself to their level of reactionary thinking? Why not discuss facts as JetGirl suggested? Because they are "probably" beyond reasoning?

 

[88GT]

Why not (instead) go informed and ask them to back up their beliefs with facts: Gun Facts - Debunking Gun Control Myths

As long as the point is to create such cognitive dissonance that their heads explode or they are forced to confront the glaring contradiction in their position.

If facts were a central component in helping them pick a side, they wouldn't have picked the one they did.

 

[billt]

Arguing with these idiots is a bit like winning a marathon against a handicapped person. What have you won? These people are beyond reason, like most socialists. They believe in the practice of insanity. Which is doing the same thing over and over, while getting the same failed result every time. They do it with their beliefs in socialism, as well as their beliefs in gun control. There has never been a case on record of either working....Ever. Facts have never stopped liberals. They simply ignore them in place of their dream world ideology.

 

[JetGirl]

Arguing with these idiots is a bit like winning a marathon against a handicapped person. What have you won? These people are beyond reason, like most socialists. They believe in the practice of insanity. Which is doing the same thing over and over, while getting the same failed result every time. They do it with their beliefs in socialism, as well as their beliefs in gun control. There has never been a case on record of either working....Ever. Facts have never stopped liberals. They simply ignore them in place of their dream world ideology.

Are you saying an anti-gun person will never change their opinion because they are all insane socialists living in a dream world?

 

[ModernGunner]

Are you saying an anti-gun person will never change their opinion because they are all insane socialists living in a dream world?

No, he's saying anti-gun Socialists will not. Because liberalism is a mental disorder.

 

[JetGirl]

Thanks for answering for billt.

 

[OWGEM]

No, he's saying anti-gun Socialists will not. Because liberalism is a mental disorder.

And all conservatives are open minded?

 

[billt]

Are you saying an anti-gun person will never change their opinion because they are all insane socialists living in a dream world?

No, he's saying anti-gun Socialists will not. Because liberalism is a mental disorder.

ModernGunner nailed it. I've found through the years, that if a person or politician is anti gun, there is little more I need to know about him or her. Because pretty much everything else involving his or her liberal communist thinking is written in stone. That's just the way it is with liberals. Perhaps not every single one, but enough of them to justify not even bothering to listen to them. There is no way I could be married to an anti gun woman. Because it would be almost certain that would not be the only subject we disagreed on. I don't want a marriage like a snake and a Mongoose. My wife is actually more pro gun than I am. That is quite rare, and in that regard I'm very lucky. But if I wasn't, I would have simply stayed single.

I'm sure they think much the same. If you're at a party, (and this has happened to me), and liberals are there, and they find out you're a gun owner who is against gun control, they will want nothing to do with you. It's as if you farted at a cocktail party. They'll try to move away that fast. For the most part liberals are total ignorant fools. They have to be in order to embrace such a failed, stupid ideology that has never worked in it's existence. You can't compare it to religion because there is no proof that exists, any more than there is proof it doesn't. It simply involves having faith. That I have no problem excepting. Unless of course you cross the line into Jim Jones, or radical Islam territory.

I look at liberals as having a case of the Flu. It's not worth the risk being around them. Not that their stupidity could or would rub off. There is simply no reward to match the risk.