• Company Markets “Shoot-A-Gun-Control-Lobbyist” Target Featuring Virginia Tech Victim In The Backgrou
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[IMG]http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wgrd.com/files/2013/07/Zombie-Gun-Lobbyist.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Remember [URL="http://zombieindustries.com/"]Zombie Industries? [/URL][URL="http://wgrd.com/company-makes-shooting-targets-that-bleed-and-look-like-your-ex-girlfriend/"]The fine folks who produced and sold the “Ex-Girlfriend” bleeding shooting target?[/URL] Well, they’re back in the news again, and this time for an equally douchey reason. The fine folks at Zombie now sell a target that they say resembles every gun lobbyist they’ve ever seen. And that’s not even the worst part. Of course, the folks at ZI have to market the product. And so, on their website, they feature the target superimposed over a photo of actual gun lobbyists. One of those lobbyist just happens to be a guy by the name of Colin Goddard. Colin happens to be a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting. He was shot four times while he sat in his French class, and three of the bullets remain lodged in his shoulder and hip. He is one of only eight people in his classroom who survived. Once Goddard realized that his likeness was being used by Zombie Industries, he tweeted them and asked that they remove him from the ad: [IMG]http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wgrd.com/files/2013/07/Goddard-Tweet.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] [url]http://wgrd.com/company-markets-shoot-a-gun-control-lobbyist-target-featuring-virginia-tech-victim-in-the-background/[/url]
hahahahahahaahahaaha
Well, um, that's certainly a creative idea to say the least
Just hammers home to me that a percentage of gun owning Americans are the last person I'd want owning a gun.
I could say certain things about the unbalanced, bloodthirsty mentality of the gun owners who typically buy targets such as these, but I couldn't substantiate such claims with anything other than the content of the ad itself.
I imagine it's more of a gag joke, like all the old GTA mods that replace the pedestrians with Jack Thompson. Doesn't mean they're gonna go mow down a crowd of actual lobbyists, it's more of something to laugh at with a couple of friends
That picture looks more like Ronald Reagan to me, the suit does look like his though.
[IMG]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/5/6/8/enhanced-buzz-17092-1367843629-1.jpg[/IMG] Yeah, that'll show obummer for trying to take away muh guns!
[QUOTE=rhx123;41408776]Just hammers home to me that a percentage of gun owning Americans are the last person I'd want owning a gun.[/QUOTE] Honestly it's people like this that make normal people that own guns look bad.
[QUOTE=Ericson666;41408809]I imagine it's more of a gag joke, like all the old GTA mods that replace the pedestrians with Jack Thompson. Doesn't mean they're gonna go mow down a crowd of actual lobbyists, it's more of something to laugh at with a couple of friends[/QUOTE] I'm not sure anyone really believes that the intended market for these products is nutcases plotting to kill gun control lobbyists, but it's still extraordinarily tasteless and crude. There's nothing clever about it.
[QUOTE=grr164;41409089]Honestly it's people like this that make normal people that own guns look bad.[/QUOTE] Well, hence why I said "a percentage" and not "all". I am on neither side of the gun control debate really, but I think that a majority can be influenced by a minority and doing shit like this is totally the wrong way to get people on the side of pro-gun. Decent gun owners should make an effort to outcry things like this. I mean personally I think things like this are a much greater threat to gun ownership and a fast track route to gun control than pro-gun control politicians etc.
[QUOTE=catbarf;41409140]I'm not sure anyone really believes that the intended market for these products is nutcases plotting to kill gun control lobbyists, but[b] it's still extraordinarily tasteless and crude. There's nothing clever about it.[/b][/QUOTE] That's why its fun, have a sense of humor. They're not hurting anyone, and besides, if I was a gun control lobbyist, I would think this was a sign I was doing my job right.
[QUOTE=archangel125;41408782]I could say certain things about the unbalanced, bloodthirsty mentality of the gun owners who typically buy targets such as these, but I couldn't substantiate such claims with anything other than the content of the ad itself.[/QUOTE] The culture around guns is generally one of respectfulness, those who act like idiots don't find themselves many friends at the range and when they aren't stinging their palms with those ridiculous hand cannons they're still acting like idiots elsewhere.
How come the loudest pro-gun activists I hear at the range are constantly the worst shot and have the most expensive weapons? I saw a guy with a huge revolver complaining about "barry" while missing every target.
My local ranges do not allow human-shaped targets.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;41410313]How come the loudest pro-gun activists I hear at the range are constantly the worst shot and have the most expensive weapons? I saw a guy with a huge revolver complaining about "barry" while missing every target.[/QUOTE] The same reason the loudest voices in console debates are 12-year old fuckfaces
[QUOTE=Disotrtion;41410432]My local ranges do not allow human-shaped targets.[/QUOTE] But how will you be prepared to fend off the commie gun-stealers
how horribly awkward
That's tasteful......
[QUOTE=Disotrtion;41410432]My local ranges do not allow human-shaped targets.[/QUOTE] Mine does as long as they're actually "self defense targets" Meaning: Dude in ski mask with gun/Shady guy with knife
[QUOTE=Zambies!;41410313]How come the loudest pro-gun activists I hear at the range are constantly the worst shot and have the most expensive weapons? I saw a guy with a huge revolver complaining about "barry" while missing every target.[/QUOTE] They're the kind that think you can offset a lack of skill and practice with expensive equipment. There is a discipline that goes beyond being able to just fire the gun, and it starts with the way you think. By owning a gun you must immediately become a pacifist, you now possess deadly force and it is your duty to avoid conflict at every turn. There are a lot of people out there right now who never owned a gun until recently and never learned how to behave with one.
[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;41409313]That's why its fun, have a sense of humor. They're not hurting anyone, and besides, if I was a gun control lobbyist, I would think this was a sign I was doing my job right.[/QUOTE] If I knew someone out there really wanted to practice killing my likeness I'd probably be a little weirded out. I think that if you're going out of your way to identify a specific person who you'd like to shoot in the form of a target, especially when that person isn't even a criminal or enemy combatant but an innocent civilian who you disagree with politically, that's crossing a line.
I think the best bleeding target....would be a remake of yourself. Think about it. You're putting a bullet through your own head. It might not work for everyone but someone might get a pang of morality like "Oh shit this is me on the other end". Psychological horror AND entertainment!
Damn you guys are a bunch of hypocritical ideologues. How many times have you seen people buy dart targets that look like the face of a person people generally don't like? How many times have you called people who buy those targets idiots and bloodthirsty? I don't give a shit what people want to shoot at. I don't make judgement about people's character based on a target they buy just like I don't think someone who buys a dart target of George Bush's head (one I'm sure you all would love) is some bloodthirsty maniac who is training to do an assassination.
[QUOTE=sgman91;41414824]Damn you guys are a bunch of hypocritical ideologues. [/QUOTE] rude
[QUOTE=Raidyr;41414994]rude[/QUOTE] Sometimes the truth is rude. It's absolutely ridiculous how people make an issue out of things like this just to demonize a group of people. Shooting/punching/throwing darts/etc. at a target shaped like or in the image of someone you don't like has been common for literally decades if not centuries.
Already been shot....
[QUOTE=sgman91;41415022]Shooting/punching/throwing darts/etc. at a target shaped like or in the image of someone you don't like has been common for literally decades if not centuries.[/QUOTE] I fail to see how this kind of argument justifies anything. I also believe there's a vast difference between a dart board with a former president on it, to a company using a victim of mass-shooting to advertise a gun target shaped like a person.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;41416670]its not just a dart board thing, ever hear of burning effigies?[/QUOTE] Still not the same thing. Far from it in fact. Are you refering to an effigy made by a company with the specific intention of burning it, and advertised as such? Because I doubt such a thing exists. Even if it did, Bush was never attacked and set ablaze (as far as I know), so I don't see how the two things compare, even slightly.
[QUOTE=sgman91;41415022]Sometimes the truth is rude. It's absolutely ridiculous how people make an issue out of things like this just to demonize a group of people. [/QUOTE] Which group is being demonized because apparently I'm the "hypocritical idealogue" because I don't think political opponents should be turned into firing range targets. I mean, it's a free country, don't jail the guys. It just seems tasteless and crude.
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