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You see, the term ‘roots’ in ‘grassroots’ implies plural

Anti-Rights Idiocy

Seems like the gun banners you argued with last week are the ‘pro-gun bloggers’ you debate against today. It’s the same people over and over and over. No wonder they’re practically irrelevant.

posted @ 1/17/2011 5:37:42 PM

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Stuart the Viking says:

on 1/18/2011 9:04:25 AM

What I can't understand about all this is that Paul is able to make demonstratably false statements like this one again and again the media still trusts anything that comes out of his mouth. Each time I think "Maybe he's finally gone too far and lost his credibility" (with the media and the liberal croud) but nope, never seems to happen. I constantly hear statistics repeated that come from Paul and people like him that nobody seems to bother fact checking.

They do it to muddy the waters to the point that debate on the issue nearly impossible. People who would honestly debate are bogged down defining the problem.

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Robb Allen says:

on 1/18/2011 9:36:05 AM

Stuart, I'm not a psychologist. I don't have training in understanding how humans work, so I can only try to view this logically.

The media has to sell their product. To do so requires sensational stories. Hell, think of books. Who wants to read about someone whose life is just like yours? No, we want the tragedy and the impossible, the improbable and the shocking.

The truth about guns is rather boring. Billions upon billions of rounds of ammo are fired each year, millions upon millions of guns sit in closets where the most excitement they see is the dust that collects upon them, and yet the human race manages to not eradicate itself by their means.

So, to make gun stories exciting you have to build a narrative. That narrative isn't related to reality, and the media has put itself into a feedback loop of demonizing an object to the point where they either believe it so thoroughly that they are incapable of rational thought or they know the truth and realize they must perpetuate the lie to stay in business.

Either way, they're losing the ability to control the narrative.

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