GG> MS>         One of the reasons that we're losing is that we're sticking 
o
  > MS> the facts and as such are coming off like Jack Webb's Joe Friday. The
  > MS> people that we're fighting against aren't.
GG>Good point.
        It's an emotional issue and dry recitations of fact are a waste
of time.
GG> MS> making movies about cute girls who got raped because some utterly
  > MS> odious politician in a cop suit declined to approve a permit because 
he
  > MS> doesn't trust law abiding citizens.
GG>Actually the only movie I can recall seeing that was even semi-pro 
irearms
  >was that film called "Red Dawn" (maybe?) About the invasion of the USA by
  >the communists. At one point it had the bad guys tossing a gun shop for
  >the records of who bought firearms and where they lived. But it was 
othing
  >like on the emotional level that you're talking about.
        No. I liked the movie and only saw a couple of techical errors,
but it wasn't emotional enough and part of that was that John Milius is
better at stories about heros than tear jerkers and also an invasion was
considered to be a distant possibility so the usual human tendency to
engage in threat oriented behavior wasn't invoked here.
GG> MS> media war for 30 years and in media wars, psyops predominates and in
  > MS> that entire time we've failed to learn what the propagandists on the
  > MS> other side know as first principles.
GG>Can you even name any bestseller book titles? (Apart from Heinlein)
  >I can't. There are some with Libertarian leanings, but nothing like would
  >be read by the general audience. It's usually SF or Military Fiction.
        Exactly. My first wife used to tell me that one of her favorite
romance novel writers was a gun owner. (Daniele Steel or something like
that.) A pity that she doesn't write a few pro-gun bodice rippers,......
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