The Gun Store in Las Vegas is a fantastic place. You can rent and shoot fully-atomatic weapons like Uzis, AK-47′s, etc, as well as semi-automatics, shotguns, revolvers, rifles, etc. If you’re getting married and want to save a buck and have a blast, I can’t think of a better place. If you’re Jewish, you won’t even have to break the glass, just shoot it at the range. LOL
Category Archives: Advertising
Policymic lies about gun advertising.
Policymic clearly has an agenda with their blog, “0% Of Gun Ads Mention Protecting Your Family, So What Makes People Buy Guns?”. My suspicion began when they referred to a study from 2004 about gun advertising with the following claims:
“The study — by public health scholar Elizabeth Saylor and two colleagues — asked what tactics marketers use to sell guns in a single month of advertising. In contrast to what you might imagine, only a small minority of gun ads emphasized self-protection (3%) or a Western cowboy lifestyle (5%). 0% mentioned protecting one’s family. Only 15% of gun ads linked ownership to patriotism. The most common substantive theme was hunting, but even that was a theme in only 20% of ads.”
Source: http://www.policymic.com/articles/24462/0-of-gun-ads-mention-protecting-your-family-so-what-makes-people-buy-guns
Really? I guess someone hasn’t picked up a copy of the magazine above and looked at the ads inside. Or what about this classic ad from the 80s?
Image Source: http://thebluereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/figure-4-1993-beretta.png
Even if they don’t use the term “self-defense,” the picture of the family plus the gun plus “Tip the odds in your favor” make it clear to everyone but liberals who failed to do their own research. Ironically, I got the ad from an anti-gun website.
Here’s their most egregious claim:
“In other words, guns are not evenly distributed across the U.S. population. They are concentrated in the hands of a minority. Most people that don’t own a gun are never going to buy one, so the best strategy for gun manufacturers is to convince people that they need lots of guns.”
What nonsense. Yes, all marketers preach to the converted because it’s cheaper to sell meat to a carnivore than a vegetarian. However, every marketer seeks to expand the market whenever possible, it’s just that budgets are limited and gun manufacturers face many challenges. They can’t advertise on Comcast, I doubt magazines like Rolling Stone and Vogue are going to accept ads from Beretta and Colt, even the magazine of the Boy Scouts reject gun advertising in spite of all the money they get from the NRA. I’m not sure what Facebook and Google’s policies are with advertising guns, but I doubt they’re friendly.
The good news is that there are plenty of ways the unarmed can discovered the joys of gun ownership. My local ABC station runs TV commercials from Shooter’s Depot, I’ve also heard pro-gun spots on talk radio, and lastly, life events such as becoming a victim of a crime might lead someone to investigate the issue and become a gun owner.
1912 Smith & Wesson Ad.
What a classic from 1912, although I would have put “For protection” above “For sport.” but that’s just my opinion.
Strange Smith & Wesson Watch Ad.
So is the guy holding the gun a SWAT officer or a bank robber? Hard to tell.
Media Matters Accuses Pro-Gun Group of Anti-Semitic Advertising.
This ad has Media Matters raving mad:
“A Colorado newspaper has repeatedly run an anti-Semitic ad depicting New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is Jewish, as a puppet-master who controls a state senator the ad’s sponsor is seeking to recall from office for supporting stronger gun laws.
The September 8 and 9 editions of the Pueblo Chieftain featured the half-page advertisement. The group responsible for the ad, Pueblo Freedom and Rights, is credited with starting the campaign to recall the ad’s target, State Sen. Angela Giron, over her support for legislation that expanded background checks on gun purchases and imposed a 15-round limit on firearm magazine size. Early voting is underway with the election concluding on September 10.
The depiction of a Jewish leader as a puppet-master is widely acknowledged as anti-Semitic imagery because of its relation to conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the political process or global economy.”
Source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/09/colorado-newspaper-runs-pro-gun-groups-anti-sem/195779
For crying out loud! That ad could have been made by Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership. Nobody’s attacking Bloomberg because he’s Jewish just like nobody attacks Obama for being biracial or mulatto.
We’re attacking the IDEOLOGY and ACTIONS of the man, not his religion. In fact, if Bloomberg took his Judaism seriously he’d realize that the Old Testament is pro-gun (or pro-arms if you will).
“Exodus 22: 2 states, “If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so than he dies, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; but if it happens after sunrise, he is guilty of bloodshed.” This is in a series of case laws regarding thieves. The underlying assumption of this verse is that men may take the lives of other men who are clearly attempting to hurt them, without guilt. This verse extends those who may be killed without guilt to include thieves whose intention is not clear. In daylight, a criminal’s intent is more clear to the victim. When it is clear that a criminal intends only to steal, the victim may not respond by killing him. If it is clear that the criminal intends to hurt or murder, the victim may respond with lethal force. If a victim awakes at night to find a stranger in his house, it is not clear if the stranger intends to steal from him or to kill him. In this ambiguity, the victim is allowed to use lethal force against the criminal regardless of his true intent without guilt. My home state of Texas has this same law almost word-for-word.”
Source: http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue10/why_i_am_pro.htm
Besides, Bloomberg and Soros ARE a puppet master just like CHRISTIAN Ted Turner, Sarah Brady, Warren Buffet, Cuomo, and others play the same role.
What Media Matters is doing reminds me of Woody Allen’s old joke in Annie Hall about “how you doing?” sounding like “How Jew doing?”. You aren’t fooling anyone, MM.