Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "Why Can't People Rationally Discuss Gun Safety?" video.

  1. Why? It starts with the gun lobby. These people give money to politicians, and so it follows that those politicians will do what they can to get more money from those people. So what does the gun lobby want? What does any business want? To sell their product. If you want to sell, then you're going to spend more and more time thinking about selling. Income will become your focus. More and more, any sort of morality or civic responsibility will take a back seat to quarterly profit. With me so far? That's how businesses work, especially big business. Once profit becomes the driving motivation, then more corners are cut, more lies told, more dirty underhanded deals happen. So the NRA, which used to just be for sporting gun use, enters the picture and starts an unending campaign. The campaign uses standard selling techniques plus a dose of fear: Buy guns quickly, before the government outlaws guns. It's that simple. Americans fall for this by the tens of millions. With Fox News, right wing radio, and politicians who are more actors than statesmen, the conspiracies about the government taking away guns grow. And more conspiracies are added. These conspiracies are little more than boosters for advertisement buzz words, which is all the politicians use now. Being awash in such inflammatory nonsense, and fed patriotic images like some kind of Clockwork Orange, the people dive deeper into conspiracies, which makes them harder to reach by people living in any kind of normal reality. They have bought into the selling of the gun lobby's product completely, and can be depended on to act as unpaid spokespersons, trolls, delivering whataboutisms and other logical fallacies at every turn. They cannot be reached. And won't stop. That's why.
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