Man antis are a bunch of hateful jerks!
Let’s just run down this image. Of course we first have the anti-gun blackface. The gun owner is leering, in an armored bunker (because us gunnies don’t live in “NORMAL” homes), dressed in hunter garb even at home, and is overweight.
Also we have a strawman of a false dichotomy. For gun owner, they can only love inanimate objects, and they can’t have a family or human loved ones. Also again self defense is ignored by the antis. Have they considered the fact that you might save the lives of those precious to you with your gun? How about saving your own life and the impact of that on your loved one?
Of course they have, but they don’t like that much, so it can be discarded.
Also I have to wonder about how often these images have the “Gun Nut” dressed in hunting garb. It’s a bit odd to me because I own guns they totally hate. From “high-capacity” semi-autos to military weapons, but I don’t own any hunting garb because I don’t hunt. I have a few blaze orange items, but nothing I’d feel comfortable wearing in the woods at hunting season.
Still it seems that the hunters are just as much the target of the antis as the more tactical shooters. It’s pretty obvious, they don’t care WHAT guns you own, or what conditions you shoot them in, they want to ban them all!
The “gun owner blackface” amuses me, but it’s an interesting tactic.
Portraying all gun owners as wild-eyed crazy white men who always wear camo and live in bunkers trains the mind; it associates all gun owners with these features.
This makes it less likely that an anti-rights person will recognize a “normal” neighbor as a gun owner, even if the neighbor own dozens (or hundreds, if they’re a collector), and even if they openly discuss their collections (“caches”, “arsenals”, etc.). The people who pay attention to cartoons like this will literally forget that their neighbor owns guns a few seconds after being reminded.
The anti-gun mind simply overlooks, invalidates, and/or discards any information that doesn’t match their expected values. It happens with peer relationships just as it happens with their cherry-picked data. It’s a cognitive dissonance their mind can’t reconcile, so it eliminates it.
My first thought was why aren’t they using Sandy Hook instead of Trayvon Martin for this image. Though it all comes from the same people, the Martin incident was used to push a campaign against self-defense and carry, while Sandy Hook was used to push for bans (specifically “assault weapons”). Then it occurred to me that the current message from the left is to push racism in the wake of Furgeson and Eric Garner, so we’re seeing a revival of “I am Trayvon” coming from the antis.