marshaul
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Flyer22 wrote:
It's not about the truth of the statement, it's about how it came off.
This wasn't a meeting of gun-owners sitting around congratulating each other on how right we are, it was a meeting to convince other people to respect our position. Since the audience is implicitly people who are not in agreement with us, it would behoove us to consider our speech from their perspective.
And from the perspective of someone who doesn't already agree that fear of weapons is a sign of sexual immaturity, him saying that would come off as a childish and insulting, not as a valid point. Trust me; I'm inclined to agree with the alleged Freud quote, and it still came off as childish and insulting to me. That is not the way to win over an audience. And remember, that was the point: to convince an audience, not deliver self-congratulatory monologues.
Flyer22 wrote:
marshaul wrote:I picked this post almost at random--there are several posts that would work. I fail to see how anybody could cringe at the statement on the video. (Which I watched, by the way.) While Freud didn't specifically say what the gentleman thought he did, who among us could possibly think that fear of weapons is NOT a sign of immaturity after reading a few of the hysterical anti-gun screeds that pop up from time to time?mpg9999 wrote:
Reverend73 wrote:I had the exact same reaction when I saw the video.I thought it was retarded for him to say that. :banghead: When I saw it on the news clip, I cringed. He should have had someone proof read his "speech" prior to actually delivering it. IMHO.
Same reaction here, too.
It's not about the truth of the statement, it's about how it came off.
This wasn't a meeting of gun-owners sitting around congratulating each other on how right we are, it was a meeting to convince other people to respect our position. Since the audience is implicitly people who are not in agreement with us, it would behoove us to consider our speech from their perspective.
And from the perspective of someone who doesn't already agree that fear of weapons is a sign of sexual immaturity, him saying that would come off as a childish and insulting, not as a valid point. Trust me; I'm inclined to agree with the alleged Freud quote, and it still came off as childish and insulting to me. That is not the way to win over an audience. And remember, that was the point: to convince an audience, not deliver self-congratulatory monologues.