Complained to Safeway today about the number of gun porn magazines they stock.

[intheflow]

Twenty of them, at my local store, and that's not counting the outdoorsy-hunting magazines. There were more gun magazines than any other genre; more than fashion, health, "home" or puzzles. They were all on the bottom tier, right at child eye-level. Wrote a comment card complaining about them all.


Hopefully they'll at least move them out of child-sight. They really do strike me as porn - adult in content - and needing to be placed higher on the display, a la Playboy and the like.



Disgusting! Obscene!

[Fumesucker]

1. I have so many reactions to that image that I'm nearly frozen

Laugh?

Scream?

Cry?

WTF?

Good will and peace toward men, eh?

ETA: All it really lacks is a halo.

[PoliticAverse]

2. What part of the country was this in ? n/t

[intheflow]

4. Just north of Denver.

One town over from today's murder-suicide that left four people dead.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014341334

[Panasonic]

7. Yeah, but it's not a MASSACRE

but still stupid.

Larimer County is pretty populated with rednecks.

[intheflow]

9. You're right. You have to go just east of Denver if you want massacre in 2012.

Or use your time machine and go Bowling for Columbine. Either way you slice it, the entire perimeter of Denver is filled with gun nuts - and most aren't rednecks.

[Panasonic]

11. Yes, saw one about six weeks ago - OC and he had a gun dangling on his belt

while he was trying to fix someone else's car at the plaza I work at.

[intheflow]

12. Eek.

Happy to have never seen an OC in town. It would freak me out.

[ellisonz]

3. It's a great country, a great country!

Funny, how just a couple months ago the Gungeonites were lining up to turn the Gungeon into a place for "gun collectors." Admin fortunately stopped that parade in its path.

[villager]

5. What's even more disgusting is that somehow this kind of porn is AOK. Yet God save us from a breast!

Further proof what a wholly deranged culture we are.

[snooper2]

6. I usually skip right over that for the truck porn, but sometimes

My eyes catch of glimpse of the porn porn

[LTR]

8. I actually thumbed through Motor Trend the other day

Tesla got Car of the Year!

[Politicub]

10. Good idea! I'm going to do the same here.

Would be a good movement to start.

[dollarvoter]

13. Video of gun magazines at Safeway in Bethesda, Maryland

Two days after Newtown, I spotted 10 different gun magazines (ignoring hunting and antiques) at my local Safeway. The manager, Anthony Bonomo, said "there is something called the first amendment" and refused to remove them. I replied that it is a financial decision for Safeway to stock them. I spend somewhere between $1500 and $2,000 per year at Safeway. No more. I have other supermarkets that don't carry gun magazines, so I'll shop at those stores that are willing to show some caution and consideration. I'm voting with my dollars. By the way, Safeway's slogan is "Ingredients For Life."

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[MichaelF.]

34. Shocked and appalled

Clearly Safeway cares more about the almighty dollar. I too find it incredibly insensitive, however I have to ask...what about the gun movies? I was a Safeway shopper, until the Giant nearby Got self check outs, now I only go into Safeway if Giant is out of what I need.

I saw several of what I would call glorified killing magazines, then walked around some more and was even more shocked by the violent films they sell as entertainment. If you think the magazines are bad, you should have seen the films for sale on the shelf with gratuitous gun violence.

I too asked to speak with a Manager who fed me the standard corporate lines. I really can't blame the Managwr though, after all most are gloried corporate talking heads who simply speak the corporate garbage that they are programed to say in response to such questions.

I just wanted to say, kudos to you for fighting the good fight. Keep it up. Hopefully more people will petition Safeway and others to follow suit and actually do something to benefit the communities they operate in.

Safeway, remove the "gun porn", in all forms. Books, magazines, film. Enough.

Michael.

[dollarvoter]

14. Link to video of Safeway gun magazines

[intheflow]

20. That's exactly what it was like! n/t

[MADem]

27. That's a LOT of gun gossip--with "Eating Well" magazine nestled in there!

Doesn't seem like supermarket fare...but I guess it is a regional thing.

[Berserker]

15. Complained to Safeway today about the number of gun porn magazines they stock.

Did they think you were nuts?

[intheflow]

21. I wrote it in a comment card.

The 18-year old behind the customer service counter wouldn't have been able to do dick about it and didn't need to deal with my anger. The manager probably doesn't have that much to do with product placement, either, and would have just told me to fill out a comment card for HQ. So I did that in the first place.

[former-republican]

16. "There were more gun magazines than any other genre; more than fashion, health, "home" or puzzles"

We have 80 million gun owners.
They have them there because they sell.


Just turn away when walking by the rack , that way you won't feel offended.

[intheflow]

23. I didn't say they had to remove them,

I said they could be placed higher up, as inappropriate material for children. Boobs ahve to be placed higher, why not guns? I have no problem with car porn on the bottom shelves.

[Berserker]

17. I think there is

something about freedom of the press in this United States of America that just may over ride your disgust. Your opinion is not the only one in this country that is important.

[former-republican]

18. " Anthony Bonomo, said "there is something called the first amendment" and refused to remove them"

What about this guy.
Is there a way we can have him charged .




I'm shaking with rage.

[letemrot]

19. I know, right?

The audacity of him to believe in allowing people to publish what they want.. And then for him to sell magazines people want to buy! The absolute nerve!

[Fumesucker]

26. I wonder if the store carries Hustler?

Somehow I think not.

[Walk away]

32. The free market and...

ostracization. I suggest continuing to complain loudly whenever you see them. You have 1st Amendment rights as well. My Brother and sister-in-law never let their girls play in a house with a gun. They always asked first and if the other parent had a gun in the house they politely declined.
Because they are well loved and respected in their community this approach went down well (granted it's a small, affluent and well educated berg) and other parents followed suit.
Several people got rid of their guns because of this. I am guessing that, like most gun owners, they didn't really care about giving them up.

[intheflow]

22. And yet, my opinion is as important as any individual gun-owners.

WTF is your point?

[Fumesucker]

24. I wonder if the same store carries Hustler?

First Amendment and all..

[MADem]

30. Moving them so that they aren't easily accessible to kids has nothing to do with "freedom of the

press." I think there's a point to be made, there.

[The Straight Story]

25. Could be worse, someone could have said "Merry Christmas" to you

[smirkymonkey]

28. I'm so glad I live in Boston. I never see this kind of crap.

I doubt I could score a gun magazine even if I did want one.

[MADem]

31. You'd have to go ovah the boahdah to New Haaaam-sha! nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

29. "Safeway." Safe. Way. "Safeway". The murder of the language is almost as criminal as the ....

.... killing of live humans.

Maybe it's worse, now that I think about it.

[Robb]

33. This is how you change "culture."

Astoundingly, some are forgetting that you, yourself, are part of your local culture. That you have no obligation to stay silent when some part of it offends, or is out of line with what you value.

Our city council once upon a time decided to limit the number of drive-through windows on a particular block, because some residents who lived nearby noted the exhaust from the idling cars would sit in a little temperature inversion and cloud their homes for half the winter.

Out-of-towners might place a high value on the convenience of a drive-through. But the local community did not.

Good for you. Freedom of the press has nothing to do with which magazines a store chooses to sell -- that's a bunch of horseshit right there. They can sell whatever they choose, and you, the customer, can choose not to purchase whatever you wish. And then the store can decide to revise their offerings, or not.