Even images of weapons aren’t safe from gun grabbers.
In an attempt to pressure lawmakers into passing restrictive gun control measures, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence launched an attempt to pressure Apple into banning a popular revolver-shaped emoji from the iPhone platform, but the Twitter campaign has backfired.
The campaign, launched Thursday, says that by removing the emoji, Apple can “show [lawmakers] that America wants stricter access to real guns,” Breitbart reports.
Of course, Americans want no such thing, according to a Pew Research Center poll from April of this year.
But what kind of accuracy can one expect from an anti-gun group in New York that thinks banning emojis is the most sensible way to infringe on Second Amendment rights?
The disarmtheiphone.com website (yes, that’s actually the website) repeats the usual Bloomberg-style statistics expected from gun grabbers with a newly released video citing 33,000 deaths each year because of “gun violence.”
That statistic is purportedly pulled from a Bloomberg article projecting an increase in gun deaths over prior years, but the group also cites a 2013 Huffington Post article saying that someone dies from “gun-related injuries” every 17 minutes.
One gun-related death every 17 minutes actually comes to fewer than 31,000 “gun deaths” per year, but statistical accuracy (or consistency) must not be a major concern for the anti-gun organization.
Ostensibly its statistics on gun violence also include violence committed by drug dealers, criminals, home invaders, and the like. Unsurprisingly, no mention is made of the roughly 760,000 defensive handgun uses per year, as noted in economist John Lott’s scholarly work, “More Guns, Less Crime.”
The emoji-banning anti-gun group was eager to push its new gun-grabbing scheme on social media, releasing the video and a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #Disarmtheiphone.
Unfortunately for the group, Twitter users quickly hijacked the hashtag to mock, discredit, and ridicule the petty campaign.
As one user put it, does this group have nothing better to do with its time?
#DisarmTheiPhone really? You people have nothing better to fill your day with?
— Adam Avedisian (@Avey46) August 1, 2015
If the best that gun control people can come up with is #DisarmTheiPhone it just shows how badly they have lost this discussion.
— Beedo180 (@beedo180) August 1, 2015
@DisarmTheiPhone ⬅️ The laughing stock of #gunsense #DisarmTheiPhone ??
— Shari (@jdhlsc169) August 1, 2015
? See? It’s my emoji concealed carry permit! #DisarmTheiPhone
— Blake Raab (@N4BWR) August 1, 2015
Just how accurate is the gun emoji? #DisarmTheiPhone My iPhone is ringing- pew, pew, pew #gunsense r u scared
— Emotion Free Zone©™ (@autoengmike) August 1, 2015
But isn’t it better to have a gun emoji and not need it than to need a gun emoji and not have it? #DisarmTheiPhone
— Texan (@JimRoton) August 1, 2015
It’s way to easy to get Saturday Night Emojis on the streets these days, and they’re cheap #disarmtheiphone #gunsense is fun
— Emotion Free Zone©™ (@autoengmike) August 1, 2015
The only thing that can stop a bad iPhone with a ? is a good iPhone with a ?. Stop the insane iPhone violence. #DisarmTheiPhone
— Mama’s Got A Gun (@MamasGotAGun) July 31, 2015
#DisarmTheiPhone is an actual movement to get Apple to remove the gun emoji to help with gun control…I’m done trying to understand people.
— Cam Frentress (@CamFrent) July 31, 2015
OMFG GET A LIFE!!!! Can’t they leave anything alone? #DisarmTheiPhone #SupressAllThingsThatMakeMeMildlyUncomfortable https://t.co/0RzleqQImq
— Anne Wilson Smith (@EarlyGirlSC) July 31, 2015
If they take the ? away, people will just use ?. #DisarmTheiPhone is the stupidest thing I’ve seen all morning. But the day is still young.
— matthewnsharp (@matthewnsharp) July 31, 2015
The dumbest thing you’ll read today – http://t.co/F7V8OGN3ss #DisarmTheiPhone #gunsense
— NYSRPA (@NYSRPA) July 30, 2015
@NYSRPA So between SafeAct & @NYAGV1 , shootings r up 10%. Now the new agenda is to harass @AppStore . What a joke! #gunowners #NY #2A #NYC
— JEFF (@firefighters510) July 30, 2015
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