Monthly Archives: September 2013

An Ad that Needs Better Design.

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While I like the product this ad sells, I have to agree with the critic who wrote this:

“While flipping through some magazines recently, I came across this ad for a laser sighting device. I know what the ad is about because of the photo, but certainly not because of the text. This ad ignores virtually every convention for designing readable copy.

Notice that it wants to be a direct response ad. There’s an offer for a DVD at the bottom, but the Web address and phone number are tiny and hard to read. There is no headline. The text is “justified,” meaning it’s stretched to line up with both margins. Copy is set in all caps. The background is dark. And the main text is framed as if it’s artwork. If you want to design an ad no one will read, this is how it’s done.”
Source: http://www.directcreative.com/blog/how-to-design-an-ad-no-one-will-read

Why a Database for the Mentally Insane Won’t Work.

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The Atlantic has made the following point:

“How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame….? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation’s refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?” National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre asked in December, following the Newtown shooting, which also would not have been prevented by background checks and adding more people to the mental illness databases. Gunman Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, used his mother’s weapons instead of seeking to purchase new ones himself and there’s no evidence he was ever diagnosed with a mental illness. Asperger’s Syndrome, which Lanza was reportedly diagnosed with, is not a mental illness, and the Sensory Integration Disorder Lanza is also believed to have had is not in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual because of controversy about whether it is an independent condition or a symptom of autism (which is also not a mental illness).
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/why-mental-health-background-checks-are-not-the-solution-to-gun-violence/279781/

Yet they think a federal database of gun owners would work. I like LaPierre, but the solution is neither demonizing guns or the mentally ill, the solutions is empowering individuals to shoot back when facing an active shooting. More guns = More possibilities of fighting back.

There are lots of laws people violate. Immigration laws, tax laws, environmental laws, there is one book that argues that everyday you violate at least 3 federal laws without even knowing.

If laws kept us safe, then Chicago and DC would be the safest cities in the nation.

Here in Tennessee, “handgun carry permit applications doubled in the first half of this year, growing from 40,503 in the first six months of 2012 to 86,334 handgun permit applications in the same period of 2013.”
Source: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/sep/18/threat-terrorism-small-compared-gun-violence/?opiniontimes

Yet the same liberal editor that tries to suggest murders in Chattanooga are up because of this fails to mention that most of the people murdering people don’t have a license to carry a gun.

Liberals think that if you buy a gun, you intend to use it against someone else. Sure, and if I buy a box of condoms or wear AXE, women are gonna throw themselves at me. Yet the numbers prove otherwise, crime in Tennessee is not up 50% or 25% or 10% or 5%, in fact, crime in most categories is actually down.

 

Continue Visiting Starbucks.

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Starbucks CEO doesn’t want us to drink his overpriced coffee. Schultz is fine taking our money, but he doesn’t want us bringing our guns yet he doesn’t have the guts to stick in one of those “No Guns” signs we hate so much.

“For years, Starbucks tried to avoid the whole gun issue by essentially saying that it has no opinion and that it’s up to lawmakers to settle the issue. While Schultz still insists that Starbucks isn’t taking sides now by asking customers to keep their guns at home, the action is sure to be interpreted by the gun lobby as line in the sand.”
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/18/first-take-starbucks-guns-gun-control/2830107/

Sorry Schultz, asking a gun owner to keep his gun at home is like asking a Christian not to wear a cross, a Muslim woman not to wear a hijab, and a couple not to hold hands. The laws of segregation didn’t stop the freedom riders from sitting in white counters and asking to be served. Today, it’s companies like Starbucks that want to segregate gun owners from the rest of society, they forget that we are society, there are far more gun owners than un-American CEO’s.

So continue drinking your coffee at Starbucks, do open carry if your State allows it, and let that Schultz know that we are the customers and we are right.