They'll believe just about anything except the truth [View all]
A friend of mine told me yesterday...
"You won't believe what's happening right now in Virginia. Law enforcement is going door-to-door confiscating guns from law-abiding citizens!"
I said that I found that hard to believe. I asked him, "Literally--right now as we are talking to each other, police are knocking on doors and taking people's guns?" He said yes. "The Democrats passed a law down there, and people can't have guns anymore!"
Someone had sent him some podcast of some alarmist who was railing against the PROPOSED gun reform laws.
First of all, the laws haven't been passed yet.
Second of all, every single one of the measures in the PROPOSED law has been held up (at one time or another) by the Supreme Court.
Third of all, none of the measures call for the confiscation of guns.
Fourth--no guns have been confiscated.
The politics of fear in action. And because they feel like they're being victimized, they don't bother to check the veracity of the claims.
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