Only reason I didn’t include that is because it’s Law Enforcement primarily.
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The one I really missed is this one.
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It may be true that ABC/NBC, etc could choose not to sell the ad time, not sure. On the other hand, I have to hand it to Glock! They get it. That last one posted by @Forensic_Wow was what I was picturing when I started the thread. It needs to have stats overlaid about how law abiding and safe we are, but you get the point. All of them are great, though.
Anyway, seeing rhe Glock ads convinces me even more, we need to get the word out broadly and constantly that WE are the good guys, and you, society, want us armed. Everyone benefits.
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I think we have to start crossing party lines. Democrats want to reduce guns. If we can convince them that the only way to do that is to have a gun and reduce criminal gun violence to the point of not needing a gun…. With 3- 4 hundred million guns in the USA I don’t think we can reduce the number enough through political legislation to make a difference. I don’t care about the picture. I care about saving lives and reducing criminal gun violence. Maybe that is the picture I want to paint. I’ll stop.
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My not so humble opinion, the NRA is the face of American gun owners.
The NRA is the devil, according to David Hogwash.
People don’t talk of Eddie Eagle.
WLP’s leadership issues don’t help.
Fix the NRA and PR campaign would take care of itself.
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Really? They still think the world is flat, Covid came from a bat and masks for children under three will save the world!
Unless when you say convince, you mean…
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Great topic and posts. I had never seen those Glock vids before either. Thank you all.
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This is why i have been and support No Labels. An independent thinking group that is about independent thinking.
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“Legal gun owners need a PR campaign”
Like getting people to read the Constitution and providing examples of where it is being trampled, so folks realize how government is failing them?
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I don’t hold out that much hope, that the majority would even understand at this point what they were reading!
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First, I don’t think we want the NRA as our de-facto spokes-group. Personally, I think their name is too controversial to serve us well when trying to show the general masses that the legally armed citizen is their neighbor, co-worker and friend, and that we are actually the good guys. The press has done a number on their reputation after years of trying to destroy “the massive gun lobby.” (AKA the evil empire that doesn’t care who gets shot).
Here’s an interesting recent example of how under-the-radar we all are. My company is working on a project right now with the state division that issues concealed weapons licenses. In normal, casual internal company discussions on the project, I’m finding out that pretty much every one of the guys I work with is licensed and carries. There are probably a few dozen non-gun owners in the office that would be shocked to know that about six or eight of us are sitting in this office armed. If a bad guy came in the front door of our office, it would probably look a lot like that Glock commercial above with about a half dozen guns in his face before he could get the first shot off.
The anti-gun left wants everyone to think that gun owners are a bunch of crazed lunatics bent on violence and intimidation. The country needs to know that we’re normal, extremely safe, careful law abiding people who are making the whole place safer for all of them, and that there are way more of us than they estimate. We need to use those numbers to make it political suicide to try and trample our rights. The recent outcome in NM is a really positive sign. She want too far, and got stung.
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