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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Okay it may only be a parody now, but you KNOW this is the ultimate aim of the NRA. Don't you?
You know there have been a number of Onion articles which have turned out to be eerily prescient.
If things keep going this way, pretty soon there will be no room for parody.
The Demand a Plan site delivers that with video testimonials of 30-plus survivors and victims’ family members and all manner of online tools to mobilize support and donations to pressure the White House and Congress. Some 600,000 users have signed an online petition to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, require criminal background checks on every gun sold in the U.S., and crack down on arms trafficking. The Demand a Plan campaign has generated 10 million tweet impressions since its launch on Dec. 17, according to Feinblatt. This chart of Google search results for “gun control” shows interest spiking far higher after Newtown, compared with responses to other shooting incidents, going back to 2005.
Yet it’s worth asking if a “Twitter Revolution,” to borrow from the Arab Spring lexicon, can change the U.S. gun policy debate over the long haul? Social media is a great technology for disseminating information, organizing protests, and expressing spontaneous emotion—but it is unclear how effective it might be in a prolonged legislative battle to sway, cajole, and basically electorally threaten lawmakers beholden to the NRA and gun industry money.
“Signing an online petition is easy, but getting the continuing electoral and financial support of millions is difficult,” says Harry Wilson, a gun industry expert and a public policy professor at Roanoke College in Virginia. “If gun control groups, including MAIG, are not significantly emboldened and empowered by the Newtown tragedy, then they have lost the battle.”
The Gun Nuts are saying this.
ReplyDeletewhen Trayvon was shot ...I do not remember NRA calling for all black teenagers to be armed ,,, wonder why?
ReplyDeleteBut how will you shop for more guns without looking like you're holding the place up? Hoooooot!
ReplyDeleteTaking on Guns and the NRA, One Tweet at a Time
ReplyDeleteThe Demand a Plan site delivers that with video testimonials of 30-plus survivors and victims’ family members and all manner of online tools to mobilize support and donations to pressure the White House and Congress. Some 600,000 users have signed an online petition to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, require criminal background checks on every gun sold in the U.S., and crack down on arms trafficking. The Demand a Plan campaign has generated 10 million tweet impressions since its launch on Dec. 17, according to Feinblatt. This chart of Google search results for “gun control” shows interest spiking far higher after Newtown, compared with responses to other shooting incidents, going back to 2005.
Yet it’s worth asking if a “Twitter Revolution,” to borrow from the Arab Spring lexicon, can change the U.S. gun policy debate over the long haul? Social media is a great technology for disseminating information, organizing protests, and expressing spontaneous emotion—but it is unclear how effective it might be in a prolonged legislative battle to sway, cajole, and basically electorally threaten lawmakers beholden to the NRA and gun industry money.
“Signing an online petition is easy, but getting the continuing electoral and financial support of millions is difficult,” says Harry Wilson, a gun industry expert and a public policy professor at Roanoke College in Virginia. “If gun control groups, including MAIG, are not significantly emboldened and empowered by the Newtown tragedy, then they have lost the battle.”
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-24/taking-on-guns-and-the-nra-one-tweet-at-a-time?campaign_id=otbrn.bw.tech
Most amusing
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