It is on right now and at full blast by fans and followers of Moms Demand. Nothing new, we have seen this kind of social action but this one has a special flavor: Nobody on our side seems to be countering their efforts.
It is pretty much a sure thing that when one of these media events happen, my timeline is full of fellow pro-gun doing their business within the particular hashtag of the day. Today there is now tweets with #OffTarget as if it did not exist.
#OffTarget itself is moving, maybe not so rapidly, but as far as I have checked (close to 1,000 tweets) not a single one is pro-gun or defending Target’s decision to follow local law. Do Gun Owners have a special hate for Target? Nobody shops there? Very few stores? Why there is no support? Everybody is silent but let’s face it, we saw the elephant that just dumped 200 pounds of manure in the living room and chose to ignore it.
My opinion is that defending Target would be giving the OK to the actions of Open Carry Texas, which incidentally must be holding another rally or buying tactical accessories for their SKS rifles because I don’t see tweets from Open Carry Texas defending Target either!
And I repeat, it is my opinion and that is my reason why I am not in there countering #OffTarget. I won’t validate the actions of OCT.
I heard in a podcast a Texas Gun Rights activist commenting that OCT might have done wrong, but at least they “had raised awareness about Open Carry.” May I say with all respect that they indeed raise awareness, but not the right kind. Earth First sets fires to high-priced housing developments and car dealerships in order to raise awareness to the environment but it is kinda proved that it has backfired and they are seen as a bunch of terrorist idiots.
That is the kind of attention we don’t need.
I think a big part of it is that Twitter isn’t a very effective medium for activism and a lot of people have abandoned it outside of ‘following’ then ignoring. I know that during the days of CSGV ‘outing’ pro-gun bloggers, the click rate for their posts was less than 1%
We’ve been at it in Facebook. If course they’ve been getting us blocked and banned. Especially everyone’s favorite mom Ladd
DMANIT, DAMNIT, DAMNIT… Looks like those assholes at OCT are gonna make Target another place on the long list of private enterprises where I can’t CONCEALED carry.
I am an assault weapon owning, NFA item having, high-cap magazine stockpiling, Gadsden flag sticker on my truck driving, gun nut, and OCT has got me siding with MDA. Only because these stores never just ban open carry, but all carry.
You know, if in a year I were to find out that OCT were a Bloomberg supported false flag group created to get business to ban concealed carry, I’d believe it, for all the damage OCT has done for gun rights.
TAKE A CHILL PILL DUDE. DON’T SIDE WITH #BULLYMOMS AND #BLOOMBERGHOS. THE GOAL IS TO MAKE GUN OWNERS HIDE IN THE SHADOWS SO ANYONE WITH A GUN GETS “SWATTED”.
ONCE YOU ARE ALL CONCEALED FROM VIEW THEY WILL GO HEAVY AFTER CONCEAL CARRY, CASTLE DOCTRINE, ET AL. WE HANG TOGETHER AS GUN OWNERS OR WE HANG SEPERATELY.
#MOLONLABE.
Huh. Well Target wasn’t on my list of places to go on my errand run today, but now it is. I’ve always been a regular Target customer.
For all the reputation Target and Wal-Mart have with Liberals and Conservatives, the main problems Libs have with Wal-Mart are due to Wal-Mart adopting liberal policies. Even their RedBoxes are blue!
I WOULD NOT NORMALLY SHOP TARGET BUT SINCE #BULLYMOMS HAVE ATTACKED THEM I AM #ONTARGET AND BOUGHT A NEW XBOX AND ACCESSORIES TO THE TUNE OF $700 JUST TO SUPPORT THEIR RESISTANCE TO #TYRANNY.
Protip dude: it doesn’t matter what you say, if you only ever speak in ALLCAPS, you sound like an idiot.
ALLCAPS are good for EMPHASIS. They make a word SPECIAL. And like we learned from THE INCREDIBLES, if EVERYONE is special, then NO-ONE is.