UpTheIrons wrote:RHenriksen wrote:Coming in 2013:
"The Student Protection Act"
No! No! No! We
CANNOT frame the discussion this way. I liked the term last night when I read this, but woke up this morning with a changed mind. Anything that is firearm related and has the word "student" in it will be turned against us.
Remember, the whole argument was framed by the antis thusly: "They want to
GIVE STUDENTS GUNS!"
It mattered not how we politely and gently corrected their misunderstandings, the antis wailing about the NRA handing out "assault weapons" (sic) to drunk college freshmen on the way to a kegger in a frat house was what people heard - not the correct explanation of the law.
Sure, some heard it, but the damage was done. The media picked up the trope and ran with it. It is going to take someone smarter than me to come up with a semantic title that is going to be plain vanilla enough, yet get the point across correctly.
Thank you!
I have "cringed" all along at the use of the terms "Campus Carry/Student"... and the notion that it would allow STUDENT'S to carry a firearm. When you do this, you automatically set yourself up for an
explanation.
The bill was about allowing a PERSON who ALREADY has a CHL to extend that ability to protect
themselves to the campus. The idea that "students"
in general would be allowed to carry was erroneously fostered and spread by the anti's and media. They did so gleefully..and with great effect.
Put plainly, we shot ourselves in the foot...from the get-go.
The "emotion/fear" card WILL be played again....when a bill is introduced next session, so PLEASE.........!!!!!, lets start approaching this in a smarter fashion.
