PhoenixConflagration
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Here in J-ville, Fl, there's a gun shop who's commercials are not helping with the perception of gun owners. It's set up like a 911 call. The operator answers with the usual "What's your emergency" line. The following transcript is a paraphrase since I can't remember it verbatim.
Woman: There's someone in my house and my husband's away. The kids are in the next room.
Operator: We're sending someone out now. They should be there in 60 seconds or less. (This references a local alarm companies response claims)
Woman: Good, cause if they don't get here soon, I'm going to have to blow someone's freaking head off.
The operator says something else about calming down, but is interrupted by a door-breaking noise. The woman says, "You broke into the wrong house this time, Mother--" The rest of the expletive is drowned out in cheesy machine gun sound effects. Of course the name of the gun dealer is Wild West Guns and Gold.:barf:
Worse than the fact that this presents a bad image of the trigger happy gun owner, is that this commercial comes very close to being a great argument for self defense gun-ownership. If the cheese had been kept out of it, I could see many people thinking, "That could really happen. Maybe even to me. Maybe I should go look into getting a gun to protect myself." As it stands, I see many people rolling their eyes and saying, "What a bunch of trigger happy nuts."
It comes from those who should be helping our cause, not hurting it.
Woman: There's someone in my house and my husband's away. The kids are in the next room.
Operator: We're sending someone out now. They should be there in 60 seconds or less. (This references a local alarm companies response claims)
Woman: Good, cause if they don't get here soon, I'm going to have to blow someone's freaking head off.
The operator says something else about calming down, but is interrupted by a door-breaking noise. The woman says, "You broke into the wrong house this time, Mother--" The rest of the expletive is drowned out in cheesy machine gun sound effects. Of course the name of the gun dealer is Wild West Guns and Gold.:barf:
Worse than the fact that this presents a bad image of the trigger happy gun owner, is that this commercial comes very close to being a great argument for self defense gun-ownership. If the cheese had been kept out of it, I could see many people thinking, "That could really happen. Maybe even to me. Maybe I should go look into getting a gun to protect myself." As it stands, I see many people rolling their eyes and saying, "What a bunch of trigger happy nuts."
It comes from those who should be helping our cause, not hurting it.
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