Gun Control & RKBA
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New sites donated as sign is removed
The Newton nonprofit that for two decades sponsored the eye-grabbing billboard along the Massachusetts Turnpike that inveighed against gun violence is promising to keep that message fresh in the minds of motorists with a new series of targeted ads.
Beginning Tuesday, Stop Handgun Violence will be saturating highway signs at three-dozen locations across the state, an interim solution until cofounder John Rosenthal finalizes construction of the Fenway Center complex over the turnpike.
The new highway signs being installed this week will read, Were Not Anti-Gun. Were Pro-Life. Massachusetts Gun Laws Save Lives, and feature a Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle, with a white surrender flag poking out from the barrel.
Billboard space was donated by Clear Channel, Logan Communications, Total Outdoor, and Outfront Media, Rosenthal said. All but four of the signs will be on digital displays.
It will be huge coverage, Rosenthal said. Having billboards all over the state that are literally positioned to have maximum exposure from the highways is a huge win.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/30/dozens-billboards-railing-against-gun-violence-replace-landmark-sign-turnpike/NVPbQBdhDH1NCMXDPuNnVJ/story.html#
But then... (No link... email alert)
Gun Owners' Action League (GOAL) Asks Billboard Companies To Take Down Discriminatory Messaging or Provide Equal Space
Northborough, MA. The Gun Owners' Action League today wondered if Clear Channel and other local billboard companies are playing an April Fools joke as it was released that John Rosenthal of Stop Handgun Violence is receiving free advertising promoting a false and discriminatory message.
The message being broadcast for Mr. Rosenthal, at no charge by the companies, provides inaccurate, discriminatory, and misleading information, which will do nothing to bolster firearms safety or prevent crime. "Our first thought was, is this a joke? Because the messaging certainly does not reflect reality." said Jim Wallace, Executive Director of GOAL.
Over the last two decades the restrictive gun laws of Massachusetts have been an abysmal failure, as demonstrated by the drastic increase in violent crime since the passage of these laws in 1998. The policies and messaging broadcast by Stop Handgun Violence have continually misled the public on the truth behind Massachusetts' gun laws. This long-term ruse is simply an effort to convince the general public to discriminate against the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
"If the billboard companies were really interested in saving lives they would grant space to GOAL. We have a proven record of providing gun safety and legislative solutions that work," said Mr. Wallace. "Since 1998, firearm related homicides have doubled and firearm related assaults have tripled."
So, what happened next?
The advertising giant Clear Channel took down the billboards it donated to a campaign against gun violence, a decision the company said it made because the messages in support of firearms laws had become politicized.
The new ads, which went up Tuesday, drew an immediate backlash from gun rights advocates.
Clear Channel was the largest contributor to the billboard campaign, donating 25 of the 36 posted statewide. Stop Handgun Violence, which organized the effort, will soon have to remove its iconic, 252-foot billboard from the side of the Massachusetts Turnpike near Fenway Park.
The new billboards said, Were Not Anti-Gun. Were Pro-Life. Massachusetts Gun Laws Save Lives, and featured a Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle with a white surrender flag in the barrel.
This campaign has become politicized and misconstrued as a political position by our company, so we have taken it down, said Clear Channel Outdoor spokesman David Grabert in a statement.
Grabert said the company had received a number of messages expressing concern about the signs.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/04/02/clear-channel-taking-down-gun-violence-billboards-amid-protest/5jX94oOKFPEVe5I32jPulI/story.html
mcranor
(92 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)Our gun control "friends" MO is to whine online and call names but they don't actually DO anything in the real world.
That's Bloomberg's job, they've outsourced all the activity to him and Shannon Watts. Not to mention all the financial support, you don't think they are ever reaching for their checkbooks?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)into donating its services to an organization that attempted to vilify law-abiding gun owners. I for one am proud of the people who fought back against this crap.
VScott
(774 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)They do a good job in a very difficult state to be a gunowner
VScott
(774 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Thank you for your efforts, VScott. Contrary to what our new anti-gunner posted in his reply, this is something to be proud of.
Clear Channel was clearly duped into using its resources to promote a political, misleading, anti-RKBA message, and I'm glad they rectified their mistake.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Your name wouldn't be Kilgore would it?
VScott
(774 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)[sniffing, pondering]
VICTORY.
by Robert Duval 1979 Apocalypse Now
VScott
(774 posts)Borrowed the quote, totally forgot the name associated with it.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Some movies just stick in my head though.
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)It's LTC ....
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)US Army unit commander, probably Major and up.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)THAT'S NOT NICE!!
tosh
(4,423 posts)That's REALLY not nice.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)but no name-calling!!!
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)Wayne appreciates it.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)VScott
(774 posts)Oh wait, whatever subliminal ones that were out there are being taken down.
Maybe more cartoons will win hearts and minds?
Skittles
(153,138 posts)seriously
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)They've helped to make gun control what it is today...
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Then it's fine...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)that's the kind of people they are in line with
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Those who engage in the battle and those that can respect another POV and work to make progress in spite of differences.
IMHO it's time to work.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)not say it's name.
You know it, I know it, everone at DU knows it.
Pretending is what Republicans do.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)Is that your concession that you have no valid argument to make so you resort to "name calling"?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)they resort to childish name calling and personal attacks. Business as usual amongst the pro-control side. Must be a side effect of the hoplophobia.
DonP
(6,185 posts)Watch how it's always the gun control "fans" that tell us what the NRA thinks or is doing or is going to do or what Ted Nugent said.
It's never the actual gun owners.
Kind of makes me wonder if some of them may be "sub rosa" NRA members here as paid shills?
...the NRA is doing a good job at making the grabbers look like morons.
DonP
(6,185 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Some of these people probably think that nuclear power plant workers all resemble Homer Simpson.
DonP
(6,185 posts)Always love hearing from the other sides "brain trust" on these things.
The NRA must be doing something right, to have so many gun control fans seeing them behind every bush and tree.
But they must be pretty dumb since they can't seem to tell the difference between the NRA, the NSSF, the GOA or the SAF or all those independent state rifle associations. I guess all gun organizations look alike to them.
No wonder they can't get anything done in the legislature or the courts and the height of their achievement is trying to get a post hidden.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)we're being told to RESPECT the NRA / Brownback point of view - FUCK THAT
Skittles
(153,138 posts)I will NOT respect people who think their paranoia is worth more than the safety of EVERYONE
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)outta here....I refuse to waste my time
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)And when it leads them astray (as it did with Mike Pence and his merry band
of homophobes), they tend to get angry and defensive.
Lack of introspection being another characteristic, they would sooner lick a New York
sidewalk than calmly consider why they are not successful, and usually blame
nefarious "others"...
hack89
(39,171 posts)Is that why you had to find an authoritarian Repuke billionaire to lead your movement - a lack of good leaders?
sarisataka
(18,570 posts)Tom Cotton sent a thank you to Everytown/Bloomberg for their help in defeating Mark Pryor (D)?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Certainly none of the culture warriors on this thread will...
sarisataka
(18,570 posts)Done extensive research but it seems the Bloomberg effect helps Democrats in secure seats but helps Republicans in close races.
interesting that two of three targeted Democrat senators, who weren't pure enough on gun control, were replaced by tea partiers. To some apparently that is success.
I am unaware of any Republicans who replaced by Democrats based on his support.
I believe some might point to Colorado but it was assumed that Democrats would take those seats back in the general election. Also those were state level not national.
benEzra
(12,148 posts)and has made the "assault weapon" fraud the centerpiece of his agenda for many years. It appears to me that he is not concerned so much with reducing violence as he is with taking down gun enthusiasts, hence his tight focus on rarely misused guns. He's ostensibly fine with revolvers and smallish 9mm's, he just wants to outlaw AR-15's, Barretts, and 5.7mm pistols.
That is not a "gun violence prevention" message; it is an at-times-unhinged crusade against particular guns he doesn't like, including some of the most popular guns in U.S. homes, and some that have AFAIK never been used in a single U.S. homicide. Even Bloomberg et al have disavowed most of Rosenthal's positions, so portraying them to the advertising companies as neutral public-service violence prevention billboards was indeed disingenuous.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)and thought this deserved a kick today, VScott.