I'm At A Loss For Words... You Guys Go...

[WillyT]

[spanone]

1. looks like mama's about to take billy's head off....

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[pacalo]

6. +1.

[kentuck]

7. take that gun away from that dumbass!

You never point a gun at someone even if you think it is not loaded.

On edit: Unless you are going to use it.

[niyad]

2. I have words, but they are not the kind one uses in mixed company--even this one.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Worse than this, to me, is that they market alcohol, even hard liquor, more than ever before.

Alcohol kills far more people and it's advertised broadly on TV when it once was more closely regulated.

But nobody fights that. No, it's not marketed to children but, like cigarettes have done, there are ways that they market to younger drinkers.

I've never seen a commercial for Crickett, and I imagine it's limited to sporting type cable channels or to markets where there are more hunting types.

Having grown up in a vary rural area, I was interested in guns and had bb guns and then a 22 that belonged to my grandfather.

I also had safety classes.

The commercial seems to support safe and supervised shooting sports as a family activity and I can see how it might seem shocking to some.

But it's no more shocking to me than a boating or fishing commercial.

Meh.

[harmonicon]

30. It's alway sad to hear those stories...

about how a five year old kid killed his little sister with a bottle of rye that his parents bought him for his birthday.

Just tragic.

... or... wait, that never fucking happens and you're just setting up a false equivalency to justify your irrational desire to own a personal killing device.

[NYC_SKP]

33. Yes, it is. There's a lot of sadness for little children around abusive alcoholic parents.

And the marketing of the abusive substances as something sexy and desirable make me sad.

I guess you were blessed without abuse in your childhood.

Too bad that you turned out to be a bit abusive with your replies despite that blessing.

[harmonicon]

34. I was blessed with a father who had sharp-shooting medals from the army...

and would never allow his children to touch killing machines, because he knows what they can do and what they're designed to do. He is an alcoholic, and has been my entire life, and there's no person in the world I love or respect more than him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Same riffle used by a five year old to shoot a two year old

I am looking for stats...it don't look that capable.

Ah that explains it, 22L

[zappaman]

11. Damn those riffles! n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Riffles have rudges...

[mokawanis]

5. the words I thought of right away were

gun culture.

When buying a deadly weapon for a child is cause for family celebration something is very wrong.

[pacalo]

8. "Start your own family tradition!"

[WillyT]

9. Yeah... Here's A "Family" Tradition...

DULink: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022802595

[pacalo]

10. These family tragedies are becoming a tradition -- daily traditions.

Aren't these kids' lives worth some strong precautionary laws?

[Plucketeer]

20. Kids? Sure

But what about the rest of us? Here Tommy, Tammy - here's your first personal tools of death. Of course, WE only use these to perforate paper. Paper with a siloutte of a human on it.

I loathe what this country is turning into. An empire of Might makes Righteousness. Where OUR God can whip YOUR God - and we're ready to help him. Crickett or F-35 - the message is the same.

[Whisp]

15. Hey, Tommy, why ern't you answering me?

says mama with the rifle.

he's kind of quiet and has red stuff all over him, ma. sez pa

[pacalo]

27. "That can't be, pa. Henry & Wilma were keepin' an eye on him while I was on guard duty."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. More like, "End your family bloodline".

[pacalo]

25. Paul Ryan's Plan 'B'?

[drynberg]

19. You just hit the "bullseye".

The firearm that led to genocide of Native Americans, helped keep African kidnapped slaves in line, then swept the world in a dominating burst of Empire...why not "bring her home" and worship her daily, including the baptism of gun ownership and firing by our youngsters? Yeah, that's a gun culture for about a hundred million Americans. It is only a wonder that we have so few fatalities with all these guns and bullets zipping around...really.

[progressoid]

12. But it's soft shooting.

So that makes it OK.

[harmonicon]

32. Yeah, like a teddy bear.

Kids like teddy bears, so how's this any different? SOFT!! YAY!! They should come out with a model called the snuggly muffin.

[ileus]

13. I didn't like how cheap the cricket felt...

we instead with with a el cheapo Rossi 22/410 combo.

The 22 with it's F/O sights are easy for the kids to use.

[Change has come]

16. What is F/O? n/t

[ileus]

17. Fiber Optic

[toby jo]

18. The kid is walking out of his grade school with his rifle in a canvas tote.

Shit, when we walked home from school, there were games of tag, and talking, and watching the boys and the boys
teasing the girls, etc. It was fun.

And, sorry, but a pink rifle? omg. please. These people can't hit enough stupid buttons.

[jmowreader]

23. I think that's his house

[Kablooie]

21. Aw.... Isn't he cute!

[reformist2]

22. "Not until you're 12, son."

What was once satire, is now reality.

[NJCher]

26. Paging Rip van Winkle

Speaking as a former ad producer, this is a very amateurish commercial. It's like something out of the 1950s. Whoever produced it knows next to nothing about the capabilities of the medium.

I can't even imagine where you might find a producer capable of conceiving such a commercial.


Cher

[motocicleta2]

28. what

fucking
assholes




grrrr

[harmonicon]

29. It looks like SNL is finally funny again. (nt)

[Junkdrawer]

31. Good one...

As they say, irony is dead