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Yup. Agree that a smarter marketing strategy would have been to let this “leak” via their employees… i think their intention was pure but they need a publicist.
They turned down a lucrative contract that would have supplied arms to a barely-veiled enemy of the United States, and managed to leverage it into some (manipulated) good publicity.
Accepting excessive praise for a decent act doesn’t make that act indecent. It just makes it a bit less altruistic.
No, you should not shoot this gun. You might hurt someone.
You’re not wrong, you’re just an a55hole.
-The Dude
In many ways Mexico has the government that our founding fathers wanted. A weak federal government with a slightly stronger state government. The government in many ways actually fears it’s people and not the other way around. Unfortunately the weak state governments and the federal government has been bought by cartels. There may be ‘laws’ regarding firearms in Mexico, but with that said, my wife’s grandfather has a better gun collection than i do…
A few years ago when La Familia, Sinaloa and Los Zetas were fighting in Northern Michoacan, it wasn’t uncommon for the cartels to put up roadblocks going into and out of towns, send a hit team in to execute a few people then leave. They would capture, torture and hang people from bridges. Finally the people got sick of it and kicked the cartels out. Hence the rise of the self defense movement. Lots of good people in Mexico. I wish them the best.
I will gladly shoot anything that anyone offers to me to shoot…just let me put on my PAST Magnum shoulder shield.
So does the 2nd amendment give me the right to develop and own nuclear weapons? If you don’t believe so, then you’re really not an absolutist when it comes to the second amendment. That’s actually a good thing, because it means that there’s the possibility of some kind of rational discussion about how we should regulate the ownership of arms.
Mike
SNARK
It’s ALL common sense, and for the children, don’t ya know !!!!
END SNARK
I’d like Ms. Watts to sincerely answer me why NJ, with its very strict gun laws, is home to some of the most dangerous cities? Go to NJ.com once a day, and you’ll be greeted by endless articles about ongoing violence in cities like Newark, Camden, Trenton or Paterson. All that crime still occurs while we already have an assault-weapons ban, magazine capacity limits, ammunition is sold to FOID holders only, and each sale is recorded by the sales clerk. Concealed carry does not exist, so it’s rather obvious that it’s not the law-abiding citizens who are taking their guns outside and shoot people. So with all the regulations and limitations in place already, can Ms. Watts please tell me how come none of those restrictions are working? We have all the bans in place that she wants, and yet there is no evidence that it makes people safer, quite the contrary.
Oh, and one more thing:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-study-demolishes-almost-every-gun-control-myth/
If they really cared about the safety of innocent people, they’d refuse to sell to the US government as well.
“We are not; many of our moms are gun owners. We believe that you have the right to protect yourself with a weapon if that’s what you choose to do.”
Shenanigans!!!
since alcohol kills more every yr than guns, why no demand for background checks and mandatory car breathalyzers??
well, I cannot wait for NRA convention in Indiana this year. Maybe I will get invited to shannon’s house, I mean corporate HQ, for coffee
I’ll keep my “chunky” Bodyguard with its built-in laser. This new pistol is nothing more than another M&P Shield in .380. If I change to another pocket-rocket, it will be the new Glock 42, or possibly moving up in caliber to a Shield in .40.
The problem we have with people like Watts is that widely circulated Media, like USA Today, persist in giving her reportage and creating the illusion she has something worthwhile to say and/or that the spurious propaganda drivel she spews constitutes valid arguments. This gives the low-information Public the idea that her agitprop has some validity. USA Today would NEVER consider presenting side-by-side Q&A reportage with Watts and, say, Alan Gottlieb of the SAF because that would result in a “fair and balanced” discussion. Worse yet, some people might come away realizing Watts is nothing but a stooge spouting someone else’s propaganda (Hint: he’s the outgoing Mayor of NYC) and write those checks to SAF instead of MDA..
Annoying as it may be, it is important to know what propaganda the Anti-Second Amendment (anti-freedom) totalitarians are spreading and by which venues, so I thank RF for reporting on this stuff. However, I would add that there should be a Law banning toddlers from using ladders tall enough to get to the top of a refrigerator…for their own Safety…mind you.
The Mexican Self Defense forces have bigger nads than the people of Chicago. Imagine that….
F*ck off woman, what is “fair” is not to be decided by you or any of those hypocritical power hungry govt d-bags…
“If I was drinking and driving and hit my son, I would immediately go to jail.”
If she was drinking and target shooting, and hit her son, she’d immediately go to jail too.
“But if I left my firearm on the top of the refrigerator and he found it and shot himself, everyone says, what a horrible accident.”
But if she left her car keys on top of the refrigerator, her son found them, and crash the car killing himself, everyone would also say what a horrible accident.
I hate to say it but her analogies aren’t saying exactly what she wants them to say.
+1 Beat me to it.
I don’t have a problem with this company’s decision. If they had any sand, however, they’d cut off all trade with the Middle East, or any country known to tolerate radical Islam. Here’s looking at you, Saudi Arabia.
Nuttier than squirrel turds gold digging liar.
That about sums her up in what, seven words?
C’mon George. If you need to get some action, there are other options besides dating trash like this.
John
These elected and appointed scumbags are nothing more than criminals who should be ARRESTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TREASON.
Public Relations
An industry founded by Bernese, a Progressive, the man who referred to People as ‘animals’ who needed to be ‘herded’. pushed, nudged, shoved,
“The gunman in Newtown took out 26 human lives in less than five minutes. It shouldn’t be that easy.”
But it is exactly that easy, thanks to the hoplophobic statists like “Moms” Watts. They have made it nearly impossible for any honest citizen to carry arms in a school or other “Gun Free Zone”, thus guaranteeing that a homicidal nutcase has a perfect killing ground. The effectiveness of an armed responder in the schools was recently proven in Colorado, where the most recent socialist nutcase shooter was stopped within 80 seconds by an ARMED officer on duty at the school. That works in those areas with enough police presences to have one in each school, but it leaves the smaller, poorer areas on their own.
Ms. Watts, Obama, Pelosi, Bloomberg, Feinstein, and their ilk share the moral responsibility for all deaths in Victim Disarmament Zones.
Is it practical? Nope. Maybe in as a sniper / over watch gun in Afghanistan.
It is, however, a new an interesting design. So shoot the damn thing. The Herter’s .338 LM is $34.99 / 10 and loaded by Sellier and Bellot. It’s a 250 grain Sierra Matchking at about 2878 FPS from a 27″ barrel. Throw on some optics and have at it. Or send me the gun and I’ll review it.
I just ordered 338 Lapua dies, so if anyone has the mythical Hornady Lock n Load shell plate #43, come on over and help me break in my press.
Mr Metcalf is like a RINO of guns, a Jezebel in hiding so to speak, Basically another Blow hard that knows his Opinion matters more than everyone else s, sort of its okay if you make money at it but deep down a Judas playing the money game! Not committed to anything but the buck, I’d wager he starts working for Bloomberg !
Having taken 3 years of Krav, sure, whatever you say about “one of the first things you learn”
*eye roll*
Shannon watts is an attention whore who has figured out what the other liberals have…to profit off of people emotions…plain and simple! she has no real plan to make a difference with guns or mental health.
Although I’m not a 1911 fan, I really don’t hate them. But I do hate grip safeties.
-51 in Milwaukee. Everything closed, I heard. Even grocery stores. Not a person on the streets, just like some post-end-of-the-world movie.
Botched paramilitary police raids.