Giffords offered talking points to activists for use in denouncing the Second Amendment policies and actions of President Donald Trump, leading at least some to merely parrot the arguments.
The gun control organization issued a handful of paragraphs about the executive order from Trump calling for a review of all “gun safety progress” made under the previous administration. Giffords encouraged supporters to “please avoid copying and pasting the following text.”
They were instead told to use the mock arguments “as an example as you draft your own language and include your personal story,” also providing more instructions on opinion writing.
The social media account of the National Association for Gun Rights, which posted the talking points from Giffords, observed that there has been “an uptick of strange accounts all posting the same gun control script word for word,” asserting that the activists “have no original thoughts.”
The organization instead praised their own supporters, noting that “meanwhile all of you often come up with angles and issues all on your own, bringing them to us.” The entity said that they never need to “hand out scripts” when they ask supporters to testify “and you all still crush it.”
Second Amendment advocates have indeed noted that gun control activists rely on tired and easily debunked arguments which are not particularly compelling for social media engagement.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg opened his platforms to free speech earlier this year, leading the National Association for Gun Rights to remind their supporters that “our opponents are astro-turfed pet projects funded predominantly by elites within a select few states.”
The lobbying entity remarked that “social media and hard work from activists have slowly exposed their lies, resulting in ever decreasing popularity for their agendas” in national politics.