gun control ad
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It’s simple, clever and makes a good point very well.
Alas, I just can’t imagine any pro-gun people giving the first shit about it.
They’re more likely to suggest arming the fuck out of everyone in the office so they can all have a nice big massacre.
Twats.
I went shooting at a range in Las Vegas a few months ago. For those of you who have never fired one; guns are loud, exhilarating and very scary. It’s very VERY easy to hit a target at a moderate distance and most shootings in the US (according to the FBI) take place at a distance of less than 3 metres. Anyway, I was chatting to the guy at the range who was explaining how the weapons worked, loading them, ensuring that I didn’t blow my foot off etc. He was extremely pro-gun. He has dozens of them. He showed me pictures of his gun room on his iPhone. Shotguns, revolvers, pistols, semi-automatic rifles (AR15s – the ones that used to be banned); he had the lot. He quoted two justifications; home defence and the original right to bear arms in order to maintain his liberty against a tyrannical government. Now, I could probably buy that idea in 1776 when the nascent US was controlled by a half-mad German in London. But he HONESTLY considered Barack Obama as dangerous to his liberty as George III was to George Washington’s. He thought (probably still does) that the US was ripe for another revolution; hence the weapons cache. The middle of the US is nothing like either coast. And that’s the frightening thing about the gun debate, if you ask me.
ORH – and this guy was working at a gun range which gets a lot of traffic from tourists and out-of-towners who might encourage a more expansive world view. The really scary stuff happens in places which you or I would never come across in a million years. Except when they’re on the news because a nutter with a fast-loading assault rifle got cross.
By the way I think I’ve been to the range you’re talking about. It was a lot of fun, mostly because we’d been in the bar over the road all afternoon. Not my finest hour but they still let us blast away at posters of Osama Bin Laden and other enemies of the free. Extraordinary place.
When I was in LA recently I thought about going down to a shooting range, just to see what all the fuss was about.
Alas, on the afternoon I was free no one else was, and unfortunately for me you’re not allowed to go alone in case you commit suicide.
Frowny (but not suicidal) face.
The scene in the Bourne Legacy where the guy in the lab starts shooting everyone was proper uncomfortable viewing.
I watched it in America and it just makes you think ‘fuck guns’ but the two yanks I was with said SEE. THAT’S WHY WE NEED GUNS.
They’re fucked and always will be.
The bloke in this ad is a really crap shot. Something more up-to-date would certainly help him vent his god-given-righteous anger.
Americans are funny about guns. And the NRA wields a weird and disproportionate hold over the crazies in the republican party. Years ago in New York I was approached by IRA sympathizers in an Irish pub who bought me a pint and then idly inquired if I had a drivers license. They wanted me to go to upstate New York and buy an assault rifle which would then be mailed back to ireland in separate pieces. All you needed was a driver’s license. crazy.
He should have brought a cricket bat incase, as happened, the first shot missed, so that he could have clubbed that guy to death with it.
If anyone remembers the 70’s then a Stuart Surridge “Jumbo” would have been my chosen bludgeon on account of it having a massive lump of wood at the business end. Or…ha ha….ha ha ha…a Magnum (manufactured by Duncan Frearnly) but that would have a required a sense of timing and eye hand coordination I simply haven’t got. So it’s the Jumbo for me.
Hope I have enlightened.