http://www.salon.com/2014/01/18/shooting_the_messenger_the_time_i_dared_to_critique_gun_activists_agenda/
Last month, I wrote a front-page article for Salon about the psychology of open carry, entitled “Gun rights activists have a new craze, and it’s more dangerous than you think.” The story topped Salon’s “most read” list, at one point surpassing even the “Duck Dynasty” drama and a piece about Jennifer Lawrence’s sex toys.Gun safety reform groups like the Brady Campaign and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America shared it on their respective Facebook pages, but so did the gun rights group Open Carry Texas, which called it “a fairly balanced article.”I also received feedback from people who were angry about the article, even though they had no idea what was in it. They’d only seen the responses to my story that popped up in conservative media outlets and online forums, where my original message was deliberately distorted.But that’s to be expected — lately, any story that voices cautious or moderateattitudes about guns (let alone actual policy changes) is quickly reappropriated. The formula is consistent: shoot the messenger, then rewrite the message.
so far this is typical republican response they are tuned into title and critique just like their politicians they don't need to read bills and legislation they only need to know it came from the left and like the ACA they never read it before they slashed it like Wolverine, abomination, train wreck, that is how those who listen become under informed because what they hear is not what the hear in other mediums.
Fox uses that as their uniqueness and their viewers well the feel special to be the only ones who get the news first.
Surely part of the reason my story attracted so much attention was its provocative headline, which I actually didn’t write. (Contributors often don’t write their own headlines.) Conservative pundit Charles Cooke spends the first two paragraphs of hisresponse in the National Review critiquing the headline.He then accuses me of making several improbable “predictions” about what will happen in Texas if the state legislature removes current restrictions on open carry. Actually I made no predictions whatsoever. I described some real-life incidents involving open carry, and discussed the way people generally behave when they see or hold a weapon
guess their crazed zeal to have guns is not the same as clinging to their guns to clingers do they know the difference? taking offense to what you do and are sounds as though they know that their is something inherently paranoid about feeling you have to stay locked and loaded and don't know what against. in steps LaPierre and the NRA also republican gun pimps and tell you you need them, because they are coming for it and your defense but more guns, bet they get cramps laughing at how gun sales soar. not with you but at you. recognize
