I disagree. Spend a bit of time listening what the media says about this sort of thing (previous shootings, Zimmerman, etc.).
Why? I can think for myself, and don't need an agenda-driven media to inform those thoughts.
Where did they get the guns - why anyone could do that.
So now we know where the killer got the guns, and still we wonder why anyone could do that. Gander Mountain having a sale has absolutely nothing to do with either of those questions. Total non-sequitur.
Weakens argument that most criminal use is of illegal guns.
How so? It's either a reliable stat or it isn't that most gun crime is committed with illegal guns. I have no idea whether it's a reliable stat or not, because I don't focus on the tools a criminal uses to commit crime, I focus on the criminal and the crime. What if this cretin had stolen those guns? Would you then expect the store or person he stole them from to alter their normal course of business or life so they wouldn't offend the sensibilities of anti-gunners? You can take this meme to the nth degree, and no matter how far you take it, it makes no sense to me.
Besides that, whether or not the argument about illegal guns is weakened, murder is still illegal, so the argument that gun control doesn't work is decidedly strengthened.
A supplier to the perpetrator has no feelings but profit. Magazines highlighted. Each gun identified by caliber. Badger the sellers.
I haven't seen the sellers being badgered, I've only seen the store identified to buttress the media outlets' assertions that the guns were purchased legally. It's been a parenthetical factoid that has gotten less coverage in the reporting I've seen than the few posts devoted to it here. You are the only one to "expose" that Gander Mountain has the "audacity" to hold a sale this weekend that I've seen. It strikes me as rather odd that a participant on a gun forum can somehow connect that meaningless dot when the highly anti-gun, agenda-driven media hasn't mentioned it that I've seen.
BluesStringer; I am trying to think the way the anti-gun people and media view things. How you and I feel about it is not of any consequence in the overall arena. Inflammatory rhetoric by pro-gun people simply widen the gap.
So saying that Gander Mountain is doing nothing wrong by going through with a sale that has likely been planned for weeks is "inflammatory rhetoric?" What are you talking about?
We have what has been presented as the worst shooting in the US.
Presented by an agenda-driven media as such. So?
Photos of grieving friends and families. Wait for the funerals. People from the theater saying on national networks that it was unbearably horrific and they never want to see that happen to anyone again.
Say what??? So Gander Mountain following through with a sale that was planned before the "unbearably horrific" (duh!) event means they
want to see it happen again? You are making no sense whatsoever, unless you either agree with the anti-gunners, or you have succumbed to their politically correct clap-trap.
I believe it would be more beneficial to the CCW community to show support and concern rather than "tuff **** about your sensibilities, it's a sale".
Who the Hell said "tough sh!t" about anything? And who on the anti side has said a word about Gander Mountain having a sale.....except for you? I just did a search on "gander mountain having a sale on guns" and guess what? On the first 10 pages of results, there's not one single media link about how offensive or insensitive Gander Mountain is for going through with a pre-planned sale.
Many of the population simply does not think the way you and I probably do. I really suspect many will be offended. Or not. I just don't know;
Obviously.
but I would not purposly antagonise anyone over it.
I'd venture to say this meme is antagonistic to many gun owners and 2nd Amendment proponents and activists. But let's not antagonize the antis? They push an unconstitutional agenda. We push a constitutional agenda. Gander Mountain sells merchandise that supports our agenda. They are not the villain, and succumbing to the antis non-existent pressure to make them out as such is beyond counterproductive to the pro side of the argument.
GM could get ahead of the curve by making a statement in support of the victims, point out that they did nothing wrong in the sales, and that the emails and attendant advertising were in place to launch.
Or they can ignore any phony, agenda-driven tripe that seeks to connect them with the killer's barbarism, and instead help our side get ahead of the curve of the impending Small Arms Treaty that Obama is getting ready to sign next week by making as many guns available at affordable prices as possible to the legal buyers who will continue to flood retailers as they have done since Obama was immaculated!
Or I could simply be full of crap. We will have some idea in somewhere between a couple of days and a bunch of months.
I think most of us already have some idea about that possibility.
Blues
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