For $89.95, you can shoot Virginia Tech shooting victim Colin Goddard in the face.

[Robb]

WASHINGTON — For $89.95, you can shoot Virginia Tech shooting victim-turned-anti-gun violence advocate Colin Goddard in the face.

And Goddard’s not happy about it.

Goddard noticed Tuesday that Zombie Industries — creator of controversial “bleeding” shooting targets like “The Ex,” a woman in lingerie, and “Rocky,” a green zombie that looks a lot like President Obama — is out with a new model called “The Gun Control Lobbyist,” which not only looks a lot like him but features his image in its advertising.

After surviving four gunshots during the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, which left 32 dead, Goddard became a gun control advocate, joining the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and becoming the focus of “Living For 32” documentary on the aftermath of the shootings....

Read More: http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/target-company-sells-likeness-of-virginia-tech-victim-you-ca

[neffernin]

1. As amusing as these things are

advocating violence against others is a crime isn't it?

[cali]

5. really? you find this "amusing"?

elaborate, please.

[senseandsensibility]

15. I think that was sarcasm or "dry" wit

judging by the rest of the post. But that's just my read; maybe I should let the poster speak for him or herself.

[neffernin]

19. Meant the targets themselves

Having bleeding zombie targets sounds like a much more amusing target than a silhouette or picture of Bin Laden or whatever it is that people shoot at. While I'm not personally offended by this iteration I still think it is in very poor taste.

[Gravitycollapse]

7. No, not necessarily.

The persons doing the advocating would have to directly incite others to commit violence against a person or persons in order for it to potentially be a crime.

This, while disgusting, probably does not qualify as illegal activity.

[neffernin]

20. I suppose white power groups wouldn't be able to operate if that's the case

Just sometimes have the misguided notion that common sense matters.

[premium]

22. Don't forget the NBPP, they advocate violence against white people,

you've got to include all hate groups that advocate violence against any race.

[neffernin]

23. Of course

was more or less just an example.

[cali]

2. omg. I just don't know what to say. I'm so damned angry.

[JI7]

3. these people are fucked up

[onehandle]

4. More average every day gun culture. nt

[MotherPetrie]

6. There is no sick, evil, and venal depth to which gun humpers won't sink.

[mokawanis]

8. Shame on them

Absolutely disgusting.

[NYC_SKP]

9. It resembles Ronald Wilson Reagan way more than Colin Goddard.

Here's a pic of Goddard.



I highly doubt that they spent money on tooling to make it look like any single person, but whole company is stinky, regardless.

I'm most sickened by "the Ex".

[Gravitycollapse]

10. I think most of the guys who buy "the Ex" probably don't even have an ex.

These are basement dwellers who play too many first person shooters. They are neither sociable nor datable.

[petronius]

12. It looks like sort of a Reagan-Nixon cross to me, but I don't think the real

offensiveness here is what the target looks like: setting aside the general nastiness of this whole line of targets, it's beyond repugnant to use real peoples' photos in advertising a target identified as being in their same line of work...

(Is Goddard the one behind the splatter? Maybe that's why it's being taken as him.)

[NYC_SKP]

14. No, Goddard's head is just to the right of the word "dangerous" in the OP pic.

The one behind the splatter is Lonnie Phillips, stepfather of a Aurora, Colo., shooting victim.

[GeorgeGist]

11. When I was young, sociopaths had more class.

[Iggo]

13. Oh, those crazy gun-fuckers.

[msongs]

16. our gun owning friends need constant self justifications nt

[ileus]

17. Not cool...

[Robb]

18. Kick. nt

[hack89]

21. That's fucked up. nt