Thread: Bring A Cat Semi Automatics Back to Trade Me

Originally Posted by Kiwigunguy

I don't believe that Change.org is biased. They will allow just about any petition on their site, as long as it isn't libel or advocating violence, etc. They don't discriminate one way or the other.
ThePetitionSite.com, operated by Care2, is biased in that they removed a pro-gun petition yet allow anti-gun petitions. I haven't seen any evidence of Change.org doing that.
There was already a petition on Change.org for Trade Me to stop selling semi-automatics, and it got about 5,000 signatures.
I'd like to see this one exceed that. Even if it doesn't change anything, it at least makes a point.
We can't let anti-gun attacks go unanswered; whenever possible we need to provide the counter-argument for anything our opponents say.
If someone looked on Change.org and saw just the anti-gun petition, it would be easy for them to assume that the public were all against semi-automatics and so on.
On the other hand, if they saw both petitions and ours had just as many if not more signatures, they would have to give our viewpoint at least some credibility.
At least that's the theory. We'll see how we go. These petitions have traditionally fared much better when directed at private companies than at governments.

Yes, I did looked at the petition and thought it was futile (like the old saying "wasted votes"), but I'll go and sign it out of principle.