ridicule gun control right out of the public mind

[FiveBillionAcres]

It's been shown that making fun of things causes them to lose credibility; even if they are actually credible or if the people doing the poking don't have any real credibility or reasoning. That said I don't think gun control is a good idea or it works but perhaps gun control and anti-gun activists could be better fought by portraying them as blundering fools and hippies, political cartoons, jokes etc.

Of course reasonable high brow debate and education of the public needs to take place but I think we can do with some more ridicule, it worked for hamstringing KKK membership in the 60s.

[Standing Wolf]

Not only that, but I've noticed leftists are markedly more sensitive to being laughed at than people in the American mainstream.

[FiveBillionAcres]

It's so true, and yet most political cartoons are left of center, some are WAY left, not all but I'd say most.




They even ridicule the gun owners making them look mad



I like this one


Perhaps some kind of a pro-gun propaganda website where people can get posters and cartoons for free would be good. Although the left has a lot more creative artists

[Perd Hapley]

slug pellets? 

[FiveBillionAcres]

Like for killing garden slugs...

[Perd Hapley]

Oh, of course.  How silly of me. 

[Serena]

I think this is an excellent idea.  I'll see what percolates....

[Tallpine]

Well, there was that "Hagar" comic a few years back about "checking your weapons" as you enter someplace.

They already checked them, thank you - and they work just fine

[Werewolf]

To the OP: Original and excellent. Probably would work if we could get enough people behind it.

Shame works well too by the way.

In the mid 60's it was quite common to see women out and about with curlers in their hair. It annoyed enough folks to the extent that a national ad campaign was conducted to make it stop. Ad showed women in curlers in stores, restaurants, playgrounds, hell just about everywhere with a song playing in the background that repeated over and over "curlers in your hair - shame on you".

Within 6 months you didn't see a woman anywhere with curlers in her hair. To this day I can't remember seeing a woman in public with curlers in her hair since then though I imagine it happens - but not too often.

Ridicule works.

Now how do we ridicule the anti-gunners and when do we start?

[HankB]

Many years ago, a comic ran in a Chicago paper in which a homeowner, clad in a housecoat, was holding a shotgun on a masked burglar he'd caught robbing his house.

The caption had the burglar saying words to the effect of "Hey, buddy, if that gun isn't registered, you're in more trouble than I am."

GREAT comic, haven't found it on-line.

[FiveBillionAcres]

My wife tried to go out in curlers once and I wouldn't let her....

The trick is getting cartoons etc published in papers, showing funny cartoons to other rightists will not acomplish much....

[Balog]

There are any number of right wing cartoonists. It's finding a right wing newspaper to publish em.....

[Nitrogen]

Check these out: They helped get me fired once:

http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/StayskalGUNS/

Some highlights;

[wmenorr67]

They helped get me fired once

You can't drop that kind of info without details.

[Nitrogen]

"Contributing to a hostile work environment."

I had those cartoons up, plus one other one in my cube.  They were up for over a year.

Basically, new coworker was "scared that I'd shoot the place up" and I was gone.

Of course nobody felt "safe" talking to me about it, so they made up some gump about layoffs.  I found out about a year afterwards, just how stupid people can be.

Apparently, having another nations flag hanging in your cube was fine, but cartoons expressing a constitutional right was right out.  Oh well, I know better to just keep my mouth shut.  Even if your current set of coworkers are OK, all it takes is someone new that's "offended" or "scared".

[The Annoyed Man]

"Contributing to a hostile work environment."

I had those cartoons up, plus one other one in my cube.  They were up for over a year.

Basically, new coworker was "scared that I'd shoot the place up" and I was gone.

Of course nobody felt "safe" talking to me about it, so they made up some gump about layoffs.  I found out about a year afterwards, just how stupid people can be.

Apparently, having another nations flag hanging in your cube was fine, but cartoons expressing a constitutional right was right out.  Oh well, I know better to just keep my mouth shut.  Even if your current set of coworkers are OK, all it takes is someone new that's "offended" or "scared".

Lawsuit? I would have.

[Unisaw]

This video on YouTube is the best application of ridicule to the anti-gun movement that I have seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0vyxgJLJVA

[freakazoid]

And this video is perhaps one of the best ways to promote it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k-XJHiShB0&feature=related 

[FiveBillionAcres]

I was once fired for being a Christian so being a RKBA activist well i can see that too.

 I was getting rave reviews and being told I was doing such a great job and how they were going to give me a raise soon and then my boss (who was homosexual) found out I was a Christian and sacked me the next day. I'd never said anything about it to him whatsoever, it's not my place to go around expounding things to people... damn annoying when people do that, Jesus didn't walk around going "And you're a sinner and you, you're going to burn, hey guy you're filthy!" I imagine he had a lot of hostile feelings because apparently they had some other Christian employee badger their homosexual staff once (it was a design firm so it was kind of a very liberal mix) and of course his parents (the boss') were old school Anglican (not new school share the rainbow kind heh) But I ended up finding a better place with better parking about a week later so it worked out in the end. Still annoying though.

[Nitrogen]

"Contributing to a hostile work environment."

I had those cartoons up, plus one other one in my cube.  They were up for over a year.

Basically, new coworker was "scared that I'd shoot the place up" and I was gone.

Of course nobody felt "safe" talking to me about it, so they made up some gump about layoffs.  I found out about a year afterwards, just how stupid people can be.

Apparently, having another nations flag hanging in your cube was fine, but cartoons expressing a constitutional right was right out.  Oh well, I know better to just keep my mouth shut.  Even if your current set of coworkers are OK, all it takes is someone new that's "offended" or "scared".

Lawsuit? I would have.

I'd have no case.  At will work environment, they can fire me for whatever reason they want.  Being a scary gun owner isn't a protected class.  Now if I put up a bunch of gay porn, i'd probably have a better chance in the current environment, even though being a scary gay isn't any more protected than a scary gun owner.

[Tallpine]

The nice thing about working with engineers is that when they're not talking about work, they're talking about blowing things up. 

(of course, sometimes those are one and the same, though in my case we are trying to not have anything blow up )