Ladies and Gentlemen, the Mayor of Cincinnati:
There must be hit squads of NRA members going to research labs and small garages across the world knee-capping anybody doing research on smart guns, right? That is what is keeping the research from reaching its success.
The sad part for the Mayor is that the NRA has never come against Smart Gun technology or endorsed it either: They simply have stated that is gun owners the one who will decided if the technology is necessary or successful via their pockets. They do oppose to imposing the technology and may had made fun about retrofitting half a billion firearms in the hands of US Citizens, but never an outright chest-thumping opposition to the technology. The reason? The lying Opposition cannot say that the NRA, for all it says and preaches about gun safety, contradicts itself attacking the development of a safety device for guns. They can make crap up like The Dishonorable Mr. Cranley is doing, but they simply cannot offer a direct quote where the NRA states its opposition to it because simply does not exist.
Many times we still fail to see the amount of game-ship and news manipulation that goes into Gun Rights. We do not need to preach to ourselves, we are already firmly entrenched on the right side, but we have to fight for the souls and minds of those lost somewhere n the middle of the field.
Let the Enemy lie and then expose them. It is not a glamorous job, but it still needs to be done.
Hat Tip @FlynDutchman466
Look thru old issues of any nra magazine- its the ssme shiite different day.
Life member, here. In conversations ref guns and such with younger brother (an attorney, generally smart guy), he will spout this malarkey. I will tell him, I’ve been a member for something like 40 years, read every issue of Rifleman that comes to the door, cover to cover, and have NEVER seen NRA support for (guns for kids)(guns for criminals)(anti gun safety programs){REAL gun safety, vice “Moms” or The Giffords, et al}(insert other ABCBSCNNBC ad nauseum talking point), he responds, “Then why is it all over the media”
The answer, “Because they are lying liars who will lyingly lie to you?”, never seems to penetrate.
And here I thought that Jerry Springer was our most embarrassing Mayor…
The Twitter comments seem to be taking care of this.
I wonder if being neutral about these bogus concepts is a good idea. Yes, it gives them plausible deniability, though as we see here they get attacked anyway and the attackers face no real consequences for their lies.
The problem is that “smart gun” is not a benign notion, for many reasons. The people pushing it suck up lots of taxpayer money. They are almost entirely motivated by anti-gun politics. Many of the schemes allow for government control. All of them have serious “bad failure mode” issues.
At the very least, a gun organization should take a hard-nosed investigative reporter attitude to these things, and debunk all of them that have a significant bunk percentage. (I believe that this would cover the entire universe of “smart guns”.) It is not sufficient to say “just make up your own mind” without offering help by competent analysis of what is being perpetrated.
You would not expect Car & Driver to remain silent when Snake Oil Automotive Inc. plans to ship a car that only works if you blow in the breathalyzer, and that breathalyzer is Cheap China Crap that only works part of the time. The same reasoning applies here.