Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumNRA plans TV and online shows to promote firearm culture
The NRA has spent months promoting NRA Freestyle, a new multimedia initiative that, according to its website, is a place “where adventure, style and culture collide.” Shows slated to begin soon are “Media Lab,” featuring a Navy SEAL’s commentary on violence in TV and movies, “NRA Sharp,” and “I Am Forever,” about a teenage girl on “her journey toward personal protection.”
The show to attract the most attention, though, has been “Noir,” a talking heads show featuring Colion Noir and Amy Robbins, who says her intention is to “highlight women shooters and our influence in the gun world.” The shows premieres later this week, but Noir, an African-American, has been the subject of an online conversation for his new position in a world seemingly made up of, as he put it, “old, fat white guys.”
He’s attracted more than 35,000 Twitter followers, 181,000 Facebook likes, and over 200,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. It was YouTube where he made himself known, posting short videos in which he describes himself as an “Urban Gun Enthusiast,” and sermonizes about the ridiculousness of a certain politician’s anti-gun comment, for example, or on how powerful a specific gun is.
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)than it already is.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)one should expect the NRA and other organizations to come right back and engage.
"Underfire from the media?" Can you imagine such? Don't they own & dictate the dialogue?
MSM, this is your baby. Let's just hope that there will be shows and ads emphasizing gun safety and storage at home.
Anyone object to gun safety ads on T.V.? Let's hear from the OP and anyone else.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)You are kidding right? Seems the only thing that surpasses his cut and paste ability is his cut and run ability.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)We've had more than a few people here at DU over the years that have requested/demanded that the Gungeon be closed.
Hell, look at Castle Bansalot. Once false step and you're gone!
Given the chance, they would silence any and all opposition to their world view.
No one dare be allowed speak in opposition to their little tiny world view.
Censorship is never the right answer.
beevul
(12,194 posts)If I may, a correction:
"One step and you're gone!"
People who clearly fall on their side aren't even safe there:
My post explains why I feel that way. I want to see Democrats win. That is my goal. Gun control advocates hurt our chances of winning. That's my point. Personally, I favor reasonable gun control, but this issue is killing us at the polls.
Take that for what you will.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12626523#post3
It would be hilarious if it weren't so stupid, but it clearly shows what is more important to those that run that forum, and getting Democrats elected aint it.
I guess they shouldn't be pointing fingers at anyone else where party affiliation/voting intentions are concerned anymore.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)the NRA and others like them find a new revenue stream to profit from it.
sarisataka
(18,600 posts)it was created by Second Amendment extremists... http://www.democraticunderground.com/12626523
clffrdjk
(905 posts)To a group, that would ban me within seconds of posting, to try and show how there is no culture war?
Here is a link for you, it's the host of that group conflating gun ownership with Nazism and the KKK
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172145326
But you are right about one thing, it was the extremists who started the culture war, just not the ones you were thinking of.
Or was that the joke and it just went right over my head?
sarisataka
(18,600 posts)*ding*
I was pointing out the convoluted incongruity of asserting there is no culture war while maintaining the problem is gun culture and how it must be changed.
I too have been banned from the group for the sin of trying to discuss "how to enact progressive gun control reform". It seems that means accept every gun control proposal without question.
clffrdjk
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blueridge3210
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spin
(17,493 posts)I also feel that many of the 80,000,000 gun owners in our nation would also enjoy watching these shows. It is also possible that such programing could help teach gun owners important lessons on gun safety.
I also see no problem with gun control advocates setting up their own multimedia initiative. Of course they already have support from most of the main stream media.
jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)NRA has produced sleazy film propaganda in the past, no reason whatsoever to think this effort will be much different; here's one on the 2011 'England/London riots'. The nra makes it sound as if London was being bombarded day & night like during the Nazi blitz, a 'Defenseless Population' the nra calls london. >>
London Riots Background (wiki): Between 6th and 11 Aug 2011, thousands of people rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England. The resulting chaos generated looting, arson, and mass deployment of police. The events were also called "BlackBerry riots" because people used mobile devices and social media to organise. Disturbances began 6 August 2011, after a protest in Tottenham following the death of a local who was shot dead by police 4 August..
London riot effect: As of 15 August, about 3,100 people had been arrested, of whom more than 1,000 had been charged.. a total 3,443 crimes across London linked to the disorder.. Along with the five deaths, at least 16 others were injured {London only, one day} ...186 police officers were injured.. As of 15 August around 3100 people had been arrested, of
Compare to the Los Angeles riots of 1992, where guns were available: The {Rodney King} riot was first started in South Los Angeles -- over a 6-day period within the L.A. metro area.. Open gun battles were televised as in one well publicized incident, Korean shopkeepers armed with M1 carbines, pump action shotguns and handguns exchanged gunfire with-- a group of armed looters.
LA effects: By May 16, 1992, 51 men and 7 women were dead because of the riots and the Los Angeles Coroner's Office listed 50 of the 58 people dead as homicide victims. Forty-one of the victims were shot to death, seven were killed in traffic accidents, 4 in fires, 3 beaten to death, 2 fatally stabbed.. rioting ended after soldiers from the Calif Army National Guard, the 7th Infantry Div, and marines from 1st Marine Division were called in.. over 2,000 people were injured.. Weeks after the rioting, 11,000 people continued to be arrested
Compare London, with 7 million people, to Los Angeles with approx 3 million, over a week of rioting:
LA ....... 58 deaths due their riots (41 shot) .... 2000 injured due the riots
London... 5 deaths ........................... (can't determine) injured
(I don't believe any were shot dead in London).
LA ... over 7,000 arrested during the riots, up to 11,000 thereafter.
London: .. 3100 arrested.
There you can perceive the difference between ready access to guns, and guarded access.
hack89
(39,171 posts)I am amazed how an authoritarian government owned and controlled media operation is now all of the sudden the gold standard for truth at DU. The next thing you know, there will be people here cheering on and supporting repuke billionaires pressure Democratic candidates.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)But the NRA will politicize the living fuck out of it, so, it'll be poisoned, just like every other fucking thing the NRA touches.
Oh well I guess.
