Well Done, Travis

[mikegideon]

Long, but worth it...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGzj6eIwWU&feature=youtu.be

[TGO David]

And he didn't even threaten to kill anyone.

[mikegideon]

And he didn't even threaten to kill anyone.

 

And I'm not surprised :) Maybe the crazies have inspired more of the sane folks to speak up. If Travis has his own line in the sand, I don't expect him to talk about it.

Edited January 10, 2013 by mikegideon

[Guest 6.8 AR]

He's a thinker. Good video, Mike.

[mikegideon]

He's a thinker. Good video, Mike.

 

Done blame me. Bravo Company hit me with it on Facebook. Yep, he's the real deal.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Oh you little FB junkie! :D

[mikegideon]

Oh you little FB junkie! :D

 

Best place on the Interwebs to piss off large quantities of Libtards!

[MacGyver]

Best place on the Interwebs to piss off large quantities of Libtards!

I know you take special pride in that.  Keep up the good work.

[mikegideon]

I know you take special pride in that.  Keep up the good work.

 

Oh, I will :usa:

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Thanks for performing such a valuable service, Mike. If I ever sign up for a facebook account, please shoot me. :)

 

Not trying to be a bummer but I wonder if there are enough changeable minds on guns and some other hot-button issues, that it is even remotely cost-effective to bother with dialogue? Or at least the kind of dialogue intended to convert "anti-gun" or "gun-neutral" to a pro-gun stance?

 

I was anti-gun in the 1970's and 1980's. Gradually shifted to pro-gun over about 5 years starting about 1990. Finally reached the "diode avalanche breakdown threshold" when a violent unstable redneck-from-hell moved in next door and there wasn't any good way to run him off, so I finally bought a gun for family defense if he ever "went off" in our direction. Once I had a gun of my own didn't want any politician messing with my own gun so the rest of the conversion was fast and painless.

 

Have watched and participated in numerous back-and-forth gun control discussions from even back in the pre-www compuserve days. At the moment can't recall even a single instance where all those wasted bytes caused even one change of heart on the issue. Maybe there are people "in the middle" or "on the other side" who are convinceable by logical argument, dunno. I've seen so few people flip as I did, actually change world-view, that I wonder if changeable people might be vanishingly rare commodities. Perhaps the ONLY practical way to create more pro-gun voters, is to somehow create more gun owners? After an anti-gun person has his own gun, self-interest takes over and logical argument is no longer necessary. But maybe not even that is accurate, as seen by so many rich'n'famous anti-gunners who make personal exception for themselves, because they NEED their gun, but none of the peons need a gun.

 

One avenue of argument that is more real-world practical and might work even if you can't realistically convert anti-gunners into pro-gunners-- It is not warm and fuzzy, but coldly logical and POSSIBLE to express without hysteria and threats. Perhaps it is counter-productive, or perhaps not. This tack taken by Mike at Sipsey Street Irregulars-- I'm not rattling swords or talking revolution. Merely mentioning that Mike presents a very pragmatic logical argument which doesn't try to convince people to love guns (text at following link)-- It boils down to another kind of self-interest argument. Maybe not effective and decidedly not warm and fuzzy, but not precisely "hysterical angry nutcase" either. 

 

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/07/an-open-letter-to-bill-press-regarding.html

An Open Letter to Bill Press: Regarding your proposal for a bloody civil war, just how many millions of us do you want dead?

 

[mikegideon]

Mike's letter will fall on deaf ears. After all, the grabbers have all their hired guns. I guess they think those hired guns voted for Obama too. :)  Ain't nuthin' dumber than a pure bred liberal.

[Paladin132]

That was well worth the twenty some minutes. No stats, no yelling, but common sense.

 

Lord we need more.