Guns aren't AN issue, they are THE issue
Socially inept and violence-prone dudes should not be allowed to decide anything for anyone. We must stop them or lose everything.
I'm very devoted to anti-gun politics but I don't know a single liberal, including myself, who focuses on this issue to the exclusion of all else. I have met plenty of gun creeps who do. At the NRA convention this week, Trump told a crowd of those gun creeps,
“You are the backbone of our movement.”
In this, if little else, we can take Trump on his word. Between mass shootings when our busy liberal minds turn to other outrages, gun creeps are busy forcing guns, racism and woman hatred into more and more parts of our lives and laws. Donald Trump knows this. We should learn it. So, I ask that anybody who thinks guns are 'an issue' among all the others in our battle against the creep-ocracy, to please reconsider. Gun aren’t an issue,
Guns are THE ISSUE.
Why? Because as Donald Trump and all the NRA rightists know, Gun Creeps unite and enforce all the ugliest, most abusive parts of right wing ideology.
Gun creeps were the earliest and most ardent Trump supporters
Gun creeps stormed the Capitol
Gun creeps form the core of White Nationalist groups
Gun creeps regularly murder ex wives , ex girlfriends and their children in countless stories that never make the national news
Gun creeps are the well-armed shock troops of right-wing theocracy. Right-wing Christianism is a solid predictor of multi-gun ownership. When Roe is overturned, creepy gun addicts will step forward there to force pregnancies on unwilling women.
Gun creeps vote solidly for the GOP and are responsible for the pro-gun, anti-woman court we have today.
At the moment we have conceded gun creeps the hill that dominates the rest of the battlefield. On other hills are all the other issues we care about: abortion, health care and voting rights, but gun creeps hold the high ground that protects the rest.
We need to take that hill or lose the battle everywhere. For people who care about human rights, civil societies and democratic institutions, gun creeps are the enemy who opposes us every day. And we can do it by using our voices, media skills and research chops to target, isolate and marginalize this highly repellent class of person.
It’s payback time
Gun creeps are socially inept and psychologically vulnerable or they wouldn't be gun creeps. The antisocial traits that make them troubling relatives, abusive partners and abrasive co-workers, make them easy to isolate. If we are Jim Halpert, in The Office, they are Dwight Schrute. We have social capital they lack. Let’s apply it without remorse.
Film ads, write articles and put up rural billboards—lots and lots of rural billboards! And remember:
Never explain; never defend. Atack, attack, attack.
Lose the well-meaning explanations. Keep up the attack. Keep them on the wrong foot. Make gun creeps the social pariahs they deserve to be. Attack them tirelessly without letup or remorse and you will remove their power to bully our lives.