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DaleA · May 7, 2013, 12:09 AM

I am constantly amazed at how ‘our’ sound bites are almost instantly twisted and turned back upon us.

‘Cold dead hands.’ ‘Jack booted thug’ and the most recent ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’

The gun grabbers grab these points and by sheer force of there being so many of them in the media almost instantly are able to denigrate them and use them to make gun owners seem paranoid and irrational. Rather like a pack of school children that grab something an unpopular kid says and uses it to make fun of them.

I think the opinion column shows there is a backlash against the anti-gun folk and the fact it ACTUALLY GOT PRINTED (and in a college paper no less) heartens me.

May 7, 2013, 12:09 AM	#21
DaleA Senior Member Join Date: September 12, 2002 Location: Twin Cities, MN Posts: 5,313	I am constantly amazed at how ‘our’ sound bites are almost instantly twisted and turned back upon us. ‘Cold dead hands.’ ‘Jack booted thug’ and the most recent ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’ The gun grabbers grab these points and by sheer force of there being so many of them in the media almost instantly are able to denigrate them and use them to make gun owners seem paranoid and irrational. Rather like a pack of school children that grab something an unpopular kid says and uses it to make fun of them. I think the opinion column shows there is a backlash against the anti-gun folk and the fact it ACTUALLY GOT PRINTED (and in a college paper no less) heartens me.