Billboards for Sensible Gun Control going up in Boulder.

[efhmc]

https://kdvr.com/news/local/billboards-for-sensible-gun-control-going-up-in-boulder/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. They should go up everywhere.

[efhmc]

2. You are correct.

Edited to add this: "thoughts and prayers are not enough" from the billboard..

[Jim__]

3. A sample billboard

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[efhmc]

6. Thank you. I tried but could not post that picture.

My daughter who lives in Boulder asked me to start a thread and I said I would try and thanks to your help it visually happened.

[BlueSky3]

4. 8 words

That was the limit we allowed for billboards when I was an ad agency copywriter. They have to pass the 35 mph test.

It's a good message, but I wish they'd either shorten it or buy digital ads instead.

[efhmc]

8. I guess you have to work within a budget so you want to put as much stuff as possible in print

Wonder what the cost of a digital ad is in comparison?

[madville]

5. Problem is

Everyone’s definition of sensible and reasonable are different and either the conversation goes nowhere or they pass some meaningless watered down laws that don’t really prevent anything but they can say they did something.

[efhmc]

7. Where do they pass these laws? Here in TX the GQP packed government is working hard to

allow “constitutional carry” of guns. Proponents say this year is their best chance.

[SYFROYH]

9. We have lots of contemporary gun control laws written since the Bill of Rights.

I wonder if this billboard creator knows that.

[efhmc]

10. I am sure the creator of the billboard knows this.

To me this billboard speaks to the inability of gun owners to address the need/necessity for their guns to be "protected" by up to date laws. Of course to many gun owners, any laws that do anything to limit guns step on their rights. The victims of gun violence always seem to take second tier to second amendment gun rights.

[SYFROYH]

11. I agree which makes me wonder why they would obfuscate

The truth is that lots of gun laws have been passed and can be passed with the 2nd Amendment in place.