Stop. I am new here and am already sick of you and you spouting off the same #### ALL. THE. TIME.
Anti's do not and will not ever "like" or "approve" of us/our past time...being it shooting in ANY form, hunting or even just owning/liking guns.
Doesn't matter how polite we are, how highly educated we are, how correct the stats are in OUR favour...we don't need to wear brightly coloured clothes and give out hugs and waves...WE are the enemy as WE like/have/own/use GUNS!!!
Exactly.
Trying to attack us as the problem and original sin is the mantra of an Anti.
Trying to suggest we reason with the unreasoning is false misleading and misdirecting and designed only to frustrate and divert us.
As soon as any of those 'poisoned fruits' that these creatures try to dangle as solutions are engaged, we become the guilty party.
Suggestions like fund raising for various causes are directly dangerous as we would be attacked for paying 'blood money' or 'assuaging our guilt' and declaring responsibility for anything they want to blame us for.
It is immediately obvious to new members of the forum who our friends are here and who are otherwise.
We are on a good course as can be expected doing exactly what we need to do.
Be vocal, be present, be loud and be unashamed.
It is my our numbers, our visability and our determination and our solidarity and our ability to ignore the termites that will win the day.
It worked for the LGBTQ community. It will work for us.
They also had difficult issues to obtain acceptance for and members who were perhaps not perfect.
But they won.
Winning is also stopping and slowing the progress of the war before your reverse it.
That is when you see the opposition increase its efforts.
Its not when you are losing but when you start to win that they fight harder as they are now.
We are winning and will win.