Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumWhy Does The NRA Keep Comparing Women To Guns?
Over the past year the NRA has launched a number of initiatives to engage with women, minorities, and younger Americans. Noir, a Sunday web series hosted by popular gun blogger turned NRA News commentator Colion Noir, is packaged for a Millennial audience, although the show has been widely mocked by critics as a phony and out-of-touch attempt at messaging.
A segment during the June 15 edition of Noir opened with a black-and-white scene of a stylishly-dressed woman standing in an alley. Doing voice-over work, Noir appeared to describe the woman, ranging from her clothing ("Her Jimmy Choo's can't be comfortable, but you'd never know it" , to her intellect ("Chess, yeah it's a men's game, but when she plays, men pay" , to her actions ("Flirts more than you can handle too. She's the kind to tell the bartender how to make her drink" .
In the final shot, the woman is seen holding a Heckler & Koch MR556 assault weapon and Noir reveals he was talking about the firearm the whole time:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/16/why-does-the-nra-keep-comparing-women-to-guns/199743
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)So MM assumes that one person does something, that applies to the other 5 million people?
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)It would be nice for you as a host to respect the SOP of this group that you should discuss the posts you make.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...sounds like good reasons for a woman to consider an AR-15 as a home-defense weapon.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)...some people in this country don't want the gun to be adjustable to individual shooters. They want people of short stature to grapple with a gun that is oversized for them, because that makes us all safer.
I get the distinct impression that the only gun that some people want to be legal weights 30 pounds, is six feet long, an ergonomic nightmare, and is simultaneously under-powered (after all, high-powered guns are bad, right?) AND has a viscous recoil.
And it's wrapped in barbed wire.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)"dimensions." Took it out on an empty Bud can. Damned gun AND can hardly moved, and wondered why I missed. Checked it later and saw 4 holes through it, all with open sights. Proper fit makes a difference.
HALO141
(911 posts)Just... Why? This article makes no sense and I can find no reason for it having been written except that (and I accept this as a severe stretch of logic) perhaps the author was looking for another, "fresh" angle from which to slander pro-firearms spokespersons. Must suck to be an editorial writer and be so ideologically bankrupt. shrug Given the preceding, why on Earth would the poster go to the trouble of starting this thread?
Packerowner740
(676 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Sex sells. It does not matter what the product is. The the cases of the two ads presented by MediaMatters, these gun ads were done better than many car ads.