Trayvon Martin shooting targets, link to article and link to sign petiiton to stop it!

[robinlynne]

article at daily kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/11/1090882/-Hate-mongers-sell-paper-targets-depicting-Trayvon-Martin

within the article, scroll down for a link to sign the petition!

[dems_rightnow]

1. Holy God....

... I wouldn't have believed it.

[calimary]

2. Signed. This is utterly despicable.

Un-Christian, and certainly Un-American! Well, on the other hand, maybe not - in "their" America. Dear God, what this kind of disgrace says about us to the rest of the world...

[Kalidurga]

3. too many layers of horrific

Innocent kid dead
Someone is making a profit off of it
Some people think it is a cool target to shoot at
For some reason these people don't get kicked off the shooting range in humilation

[DrDan]

4. there are several here on DU that see nothing wrong with this

seems pretty despicable to me

[nolabear]

5. Your evidence?

[DrDan]

6. here's one - check out the OP - same topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=119119

[aikoaiko]

8. up thread he calls it exploitation of a tragedy and did not say there is nothing wrong with it.

Did you mean to link to someone else?

[DrDan]

10. "someone might punch holes in a piece of paper" - I read that as condoning it

feel free to interpret it as you like

[Vanje]

11. Assholes are among us

here at DU.

[DrDan]

7. here's another

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=119292

[aikoaiko]

9. And that one was in response to someone suggesting the FBI track people who buy them.

That's not saying there is nothing wrong with it either.

[surrealAmerican]

12. What I find disturbing ...

... is that, were it not for people actually shooting at these, they would be a biting piece of criticism of the whole gun culture.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

13. Not much you could do to stop them, really.

I see tons of different targets sold at shooting ranges; Bin Laden, Saddam, gunmen w/ hostages, thugs, Obama, other politicians, zombies, silhouettes, animal shapes, bullseyes, etc. I don't think it breaks any laws so there's probably nothing that can be done. Shooting at targets of high-profile dead teenagers is a pretty asshole thing to do.

There is a range I go to that lets patrons bring and shoot at "No Guns Allowed" signs (presumably taken/stolen from wherever)... I always get a chuckle out of the irony of anti-gun signs with bullet holes in them. Personally, I shoot @ paper plates, USPSA silhouettes, or X's drawn on blank sheets of computer paper.

[robinlynne]

14. I would guess that shooting at an Obama target would be illegal. I don't know, but it seems to me.

[Meiko]

15. It's not

There is more than on place selling clay's for skeet shooting with the Presidents likeness on them.

[robinlynne]

16. disgusting. awful. terrible.