This is pretty much the bottom line. Trying to convince them otherwise is like trying to convince somebody that Charlie Manson was a nice guy, or that smoking 4 packs a day is healthy. Waste of time. In their view, trained, fingerprinted, licensed LTC holders carrying concealed are the WORST kind of gun owners: "you don't know who has a gun and who doesn't!!! They could be standing right next to you!!!"stingeragent wrote:I'll agree. The other side does not care, it's like talking to a brick wall. I was looking at some comments on a MDA facebook post, and the anti's were making all sorts of posts , anti gun this, anyone with a gun is crazy that, and some pro gun person posted links to numerous statistics showing that CHL holders are responsible for less than 1% of the crimes in texas, and several anti gun folks responded back, "you posted statistics, what does that prove? guns are bad blah blah" The bottom line is they just won't listen. If they believe the sky is orange 24 hours a day, and you take them outside and tell them to look at they sky, and then show them a blue crayon, they are still gonna say its orange. It reminds me of arguing with my ex wife. It doesn't matter what you say, how much sense it makes, or that you can 100% prove it by stats that are posted by government agencies, they still will say your wrong.
And remember, the MDA types are only part of problem. We also have the 2A extremists carrying ARs into Whataburger. We have business owners who have no idea that signage only applies to LTC holders, or even that LTCs exist. We have Fudds that don't give a flip. We have anti-gun politicians posturing for votes. We have unreachable corporate offices in New York skyscrapers ordering franchisees to post. We have broad swaths of the general public whose grasp of the issue is limited to sound bites ("college kids running around campus with guns!"). It goes far, far beyond just MDA.
And the more glaringly obvious this becomes, the more convinced I am that the only effective solution to a lot of this is going to have to be legislative. Occasionally we hear of an individual being convinced to remove his 06 sign, but I'm beginning to have grave doubts that our little PR efforts are going to have any real effect on the larger scale.