Reply #22: "Hunting" and the armed voting populace... [View All]

[TnDem]

I posted this response in another thread elsewhere, but it does more justice here. The people that think by being a "hunter" then makes them OK with gunowners at large, doesn't understand one thing about dedicated gunowners, thousands of whom own guns for a myraid of reasons besides hunting.

Let me explain to you how this works. John Kerry and his supporters think that by posing with a shotgun and a dead goose that he is then inoculated from the gun issue. Here's a clue to all hardcore gunbanning liberals:

"HUNTING" AND SIMPLY ADVOCATING HUNTING DOESN"T MEAN SQUAT TO 85% OF ALL GUN OWNERS.

Gun owners are inherently distrustful of people like John Kerry especially when advocacy groups present voters with their voting history. For anyone that thinks that this issue was not on rural folks minds...Read S.B 1431 that Mr. Kerry sponsored this last session. If passed it would have been the most Draconian gun law to ever have hit the books. The NRA made voters aware of the specifics of the bill, what it said and who advocated its passage, (in this case John Kerry). The Kerry and Gore methods of thinking,(in their minds), that by doing some hunting, that they are safe from the "anti-gun" label, shows their lack of understanding of the gun culture and rural and some suburban voters. They are RABID in their defense of their right to keep their guns. Many people DO NOT HUNT. These people may collect guns, like to target shoot, combat shoot, plink, trade, be amateur military historians, be an advocate of self defense, etc, etc..

Many, many thousands of voters don't give a damn about hunting, but love guns. Right away when they see Kerry hauling a goose out of the woods in his new camouflage, they think, "Fake bullshit, he's trying to look like one of us, but he's far from it". Show me a Democrat that likes shooting and talking about his H&K MP5 and has a Senate record to back it up, and I'll show you a Democrat that will cut DEEPLY into the Republican ranks during an election.

When northeastern and California liberals can stop attempting to read rural voter's minds, then the issue can be resolved.

Here's the key to winning the white house. Shut the Hell up about guns PERIOD. The party should disown the issue nationally and thoroughly discourage anyone with the shitty record,(like Kerry's), on guns from winning the nomination. Shut the Hell up about "reasonable restrictions". That may sound moderate to some. Most rural people here that and say "bye-bye".

Drop gun control totally and if you don't agree, then at least STFU about it, or I can promise you that we will lose more and more of the elections. Every election, more and more gun owners realize that Democrats= gun control. The more that realize that, we will NEVER get those people back.

Take it from me, I have saw this happening over the last 20 years and I have been screaming for someone to listen, but all the while, liberal people keep thinking that they mean well by moderating their tone with "reasonable restrictions". It's a loser folks, trust me