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The Best Gun Message — Both Ways!
I have been connected to the gun business in one way or another for sixty years. And during that time, I have read or heard just about everything and anything which has been written or spoken about guns.
But when it comes to a narrative which can be used better by both sides in the gun debate, the hat pictured above takes the cake.
Think about the wording and images on that hat for a minute, okay? Think about how we have Donald Trump connected to God and guns as a way of promoting his 2024 Presidential campaign.
But then turn it around and think about how even the most conservative religious leaders can’t find anything positive about mass shootings committed by using AR-15 guns.
As we get into the 2024 political season, which gets heated up around Labor Day, it’ll be interesting to see how the gun issue plays out.
On the one hand we have Joe saying something about an assault weapons ban in just about every speech. On the other hand, all the GOP candidates, both the two or three real candidates plus all the fakes, aren’t about to say anything about guns which doesn’t embrace the Godly blessing and Constitutional ‘right’ to armed, self-defense.
I know the previous paragraph sounds like it came right out of a standard Eisenhower (‘on the one hand this, on the…