I’m really thinking I’m onto something when I mentioned after the election that we are not a nation of Moderates, but a nation of Extremists on both sides, with apathy and vacancy in between.
Have a look at this Huff-Po article on old Gun Ads.
Now I’ll admit that letting your little girl sleep with an Iver Johnson, or having a lady holding a shotgun pimping beer is in poor taste. Also some of the adds probably run a tad chauvinistic, but I’ll give that a pass as times were VERY different back then. I mean all Doctors were men, and most women didn’t work at all, and the stories you hear at your workplace sexual harassment training ACTUALLY happened with regularity.
Still they link the Savage 1907 .32 add which pushed their lovely little 10-shot pistol as a woman’s defensive arm. What’s the problem with that?
Still most of the ads are people hunting and target shooting, and kids using .22 and BB guns! They find these ads shocking? There is a huge cultural difference here.
And there’s this video:
I don’t much care for the Bushmaster ad, and all I could think is “This is what you get when you sell your company to a non-gun holding corp!” But I was upset that a gun company would so blatantly exclude women!
And they blame MEN as a GROUP for the mass shootings in this country???? WOW! Honestly the trend for males as the mass-shooters strikes me more to have in common with serial killer profiles, than “Men with weapons!”
Oh and just because, I’ll close with this video.
He knows nothing about guns or gun laws…but boy we need to ban them!
Low information voters have screwed up the country enough, why do we also need no information people in office?
All I could think about the Bushmaster as was “Keep your finger off the trigger, dummy!”
Most mass killers are men and most of the people that stop them are also men.