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This article drew a parallel between the successful fight against smoking and the ongoing struggle over gun control. The author highlighted the importance of understanding gun owners' perspectives, in contrast to the often-confrontational approach taken by those opposed to gun ownership.
He made a really good point in a piece I've cited repeatedly in my show. It'll be in the show notes today, my newsletter. Bonjino.com slash newsletters how you get this stuff. Just go there, subscribe...
— Episode: Trump, The Border, and UFOs? (Ep 1482)
Episode: Trump, The Border, and UFOs? (Ep 1482)
This article drew a parallel between the successful fight against smoking and the ongoing struggle over gun control. The author highlighted the importance of understanding gun owners' perspectives, in contrast to the often-confrontational approach taken by those opposed to gun ownership.
He made a really good point in a piece I've cited repeatedly in my show. It'll be in the show notes today, my newsletter. Bonjino.com slash newsletters how you get this stuff. Just go there, subscribe to the newsletter. I'll email you the stuff every morning. Read this piece again just because he's a never-trumper doesn't mean the point here isn't one we should really kind of tattoo on our brains.
And it relates to this prior segment with this David Shore guy telling liberals, stop being emotional, start thinking tactically, defund the police is probably not a good thing. He has this piece Jonah. It was in the LA Times and elsewhere smoking guns and tobacco. It's from December of 2015.
The point of the piece is a simple one. What is smoking have to do with guns and tobacco? What is he talking about? He makes this great point about how the war on smoking in the United States was a successful effort.
Why did the left's war on the second amendment fail? Because they made no effort to understand gun owners like they understood smokers. They just insulted them every time there's a shooting or a crime. You just want people dead if you're a gunner. I do. When did I say that?
They made no effort to understand gun owners like they made an effort to understand smokers. That's important here. And this piece is relevant to what David Disgaishor is saying to Bill Marr that, hey, if you don't make an effort, you radical liberal nutbags, me kind of throwing that in there a little bit. If you don't make an effort to understand why working class folks are leaving your movement in droves, you're not going to have a party left.