Yesterday, we ran a contest asking our Armed Intelligentsia to devise a pro-2A slogan for people who don’t own a gun. The theme was a tribute to Gun Guys author Dan Baum; a once and future TTAG contributor who “gets” guns like Danielle Lloyd gets attention but somehow fails to grasp the whole Second Amendment thing. (Liberals. Go figure.) Dan also forgot the fact that the last six words of his book are a pro-2A slogan for fence straddlers: “Don’t Like Guns? Don’t Have One.” Anyway, Dan’s chosen a winner: “Guns – because free speech sounds funny with a boot on your neck.” Rich’s hardcover edition of Gun Guys is on its way. Thanks to everyone who played along.
Can you list some of the other good ones you considered?
+1
2A isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law.
That’s a pretty good slogan; got a chuckle out of it. 🙂
Don’t know what the others were, but here’s one for the hell of it. “Guns – Because I have the right to choose how I defend myself.”
Wait, her last name is REALLY “Llyod”? How does one pronounce that? Something like, “Yee-OD”?
Come unto me, Yee-OD!!!
Loyd. It ain’t Spanish.
Funny guys. Text amended.
Speaking of past and future contributors, Where is Jack hiding?
Congrats to the winner, well done! I’m somewhat relieved I didn’t win, at least now I’m not stuck with that dopey book.
Hate to break it to you, but anything that invokes jack-booted thugs is the kind of thing that tends to turn off the fence straddlers.
uhhhyup.
I’ll get crucified but it’s a horrible reference. All things in due course and we’re not there yet.
Yeah. A slogan that invites eye rolling and muttering about “paranoid gun nuts” isn’t really going to do us any good, true or not.
Give it time. Within a year, with the government going at its pace, the concept won’t seem so ridiculous to most.
Of course, some will always be victims of normalcy bias.
Wishful thinking. It’ll take way more than a year for the concept to seem ridiculous to most.
Just a reminder that this isnt a game. We arent playing for trinkets. Keep visualizing German Jews being rounded up. Southern blacks being dragged off to a lynching. Old ladies being beaten to unrecoverable injury for a handful of change. I’ll choose my allies very carefully.
Yep.
But if we keep doing it often enough, we can keep hoping for different results!
I love it. Where can I get the bumper sticker?
Congrats to the winner!
Thanks Dan! Thanks Robert!
Lot’s of great entries. I’m in good company here.
Yeah, it’s a little gritty but I think it makes a point. Like Silver above says, given time it may not be gritty enough to keep up with reality…
Well done, Rich. I got a good laugh from that when you posted it.
“Intentional Violation of Rights is a Crime.”
Nice choice. I laughed out loud at that one when I read it yesterday. There were some other zippy ones, too, but that’s a good pick.
I love the Slogan, for gun owners. But the assignment was a slogan for non-gun owners. Nothing there to indicate a non-gun owner supporting the 2nd Amendment.
Anyway, thanks for all you do. Even if I don’t agree with everything, we’re much better off with TTAG than without.