We Need To Stop Calling It 'Gun Control' & Start Calling It 'People Control'....

[global1]

The cat's out of the bag as far as guns go. They're not going to be taken away or confiscated.

We need to change the narrative.

We need to control the people that have, use, buy, sell and manufacture the guns.

We need to emphazise 'People Control' and de-emphazise 'Gun Control'.

Put the teeth in laws that control the people that have, use, buy, sell & manufacture the guns and the ammo.

Stop calling it 'Gun Control'.

[CrackityJones75]

1. Or Gun Safety Legislation

Gun control is just awful messaging.

[NutmegYankee]

2. That term just plays badly to the public.

It sounds like a euphemism for totalitarianism.

[JI7]

5. yup, people who support something will be turned off just by that term

[lagomorph777]

6. Yeah, it would be a lot worse than "gun control."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Good luck with that!

[JI7]

4. No fucking way . That would turn off most people. Most people support Gun Control

we need to stop thinking this is an issue of messaging.

The problem is the system gives more representation to right wing racists so even if most people support something it gets far less support in Congress.

[kcr]

7. Nothing people like better than being controlled

Great idea

The name isn't the problem. Gun control is actually popular.

[Demsrule86]

10. It is not popular in states we need to hold in order to have a majority and that is the issue.

We need to consider laws against open carry...and things like that.

[kcr]

13. We don't have the states where it isn't popular

That's the problem. We can chisel away at the problem when we do have control, but that's about as far as we can get. Someday a future SCOTUS may actually rule on the 2nd amendment that allows for broader change, but until then that's about as much as we get.

[Demsrule86]

16. You are right.

I say that with great sadness.

[Demsrule86]

8. We need to fight hard against open carry...that is the ticket...the idea you can bring a gun to

the grocery store, church and even bars is ridiculous. If folks noticed this guy walking in with a gun and I I am sure some did, there would be nothing they could do as stupid ass states have allowed it.

[JHB]

9. To change the narrative, that's the exact wrong phrase

Hard pass.

They already portray us as would-be Stalinists. Undercut that, don't feed it.

[Celerity]

11. hard pass, that plays into gun humper paranoid fantasies, and is a form of the RW talking point

'guns don't kill people, people kill people, and would kill people even without guns' bollocks.

[SYFROYH]

12. yeah, that doesn't sound authoritarian at all and will be welcome by the public

[Voltaire2]

14. fork that noise

[forgotmylogin]

15. Why don't people need to pass a test to purchase a gun?

At least a first time buyer. There should be a firing range test with an instructor and safety instruction. That would at least prevent "impulse" gun buys leading to a shooting. "I need a gun right now" should never be the reason for purchase. A gun owner would need to renew a certificate for gun safety every five years and have a valid one to purchase any firearm.

Instead of restricting "the right to bear arms" restrict "the right to purchase arms".

[NYC Liberal]

17. No. "Crime control"

[Maru Kitteh]

18. Oh GOD no. WORSE label x1000.

Jesus. You think people would get behind something called "people control?"

Oh HELL no.