‘Trayvon Martin’ gun range targets sold out in two days
Source: Raw Story
Trayvon Martin gun range targets sold out in two days
By David Edwards
Friday, May 11, 2012 13:24 EDT
A person selling gun range targets modeled after slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin says that their main motivation was to make money off the controversy.
WKMGs Mike DeForest reported on Friday that the unidentified seller told him that the targets sold out in 2 days.
The response is overwhelming, the seller said.
~snip~
Photos of the item, which was titled 10 Pack Trayvon Martin Targets, showed crosshairs over a hoodie similar to the one Trayvon Martin was wearing when he was shot by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in February. The figure has a bag of Skittle in his pocket and is holding what appears to be a can of iced tea, similar to what Martin had purchased before being gunned down. The pack of 10 targets was being sold for $8.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/11/trayvon-martin-gun-range-targets-sold-out-in-two-days/
Smilo
(1,944 posts)money goes beyond any sense of decency.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)sick can some folks can be... my god.
edcantor
(325 posts)than ever before.
Fueled by Fucx Snooze, Rush, and the fact that a black man is more competent than their choice of BarbieDoll and Senile white guy, these racists have come out of the woodwork and are buying guns and supporting the likes of that coward Zimmerman.
There's millions of them, and, with the help of the internet, any racist can make money selling this SHH***.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Ignore them.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Stupid people printing lame targets that aren't even useful for scoring in a match will lead to more dumbshit wannabe cops carrying guns around?
That doesn't make any sense at all.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)WWNdGTS?
DrDan
(20,411 posts)with the palin targets. Just ignore them . . . like, what could go wrong?
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Oh the humanity.
Meiko
(1,076 posts)just to Trayvon Martin. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/obama-pelosi-shooting-targets_n_1345685.html
edcantor
(325 posts)We are allowing our racists to run wild, like cowboys out herding the cattle on the wild west range.
Ignore this, and thousands of black and minorities will be shot just for being who they are, not for any crimes they commit, (which obviously would deserve being shot either, as I believe in justice, not vigilantism).
NickB79
(19,236 posts)What do you propose be done about it? The more national attention is given, the more targets this range will probably sell.
calimary
(81,240 posts)How'd that work out for everybody?
Unfortunately, ignoring them gives them free reign, implies that they're correct ("well, the other side isn't saying anything - not fighting back - must be true, then, 'eh?" , and lets them have the stage - unfettered, unchecked, and unrestrained!
Unfortunately we HAVE to make a stink about it. We can't afford to let these people slither around doing this shit - with no consequence, no flack, no noise drawing attention to their awful awful crap! It has to be responded to and questioned LOUDLY. Otherwise it will continue, under the radar, until it's metastasized like a cancer.
"Ignore it" - your dermatologist wouldn't advise that if you came in with a mole on your shoulder that looked a little fishy.
"Ignore it" - your dentist wouldn't advise that if you had this little twinge of tooth pain.
"Ignore it" - your doctor wouldn't advise that if you called about this funny feeling in your stomach.
No, you have to hit shit like this head-on - with the biggest neon-painted sledge-hammer you can lift!!!!
Paladin
(28,256 posts)If you don't care about it, that suits me fine.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Rant and rave impotently on a Web forum?
Call my members of Congress and demand that they impose some kind of censorship?
Paladin
(28,256 posts)But maybe that's just me, ranting and raving incoherently on a Web forum......
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)uncle ray
(3,156 posts)you take all those dickheads out of the equation, and that one dickhead is irrelevant.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Lock them up in a re-education camp?
uncle ray
(3,156 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Yet lawmakers keep enacting laws that encourage more and more callous people to acquire guns.
Screw them all, especially those who profit from this, and those who find enjoyment in using such "targets." I'll bet some are planning a big weekend at the range playing Zimmerman, and will take the kids to share in the experience and comraderie.
Spoonman
(1,761 posts)And you want people to take you seriously!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)NEOBuckeye
(2,781 posts)What a pig.
goclark
(30,404 posts)Oops!
Sorry, I forgot that the Gun Industry can do anything they want to do without any rules.
-..__...
(7,776 posts)Uhhhmmm, no... there shouldn't.
NickB79
(19,236 posts)Holy crap, you do realize what you're saying, right?
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)The act of a deranged individual.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Trayvon's picture wasn't up for grabs to be sold especially for targets.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)But it doesn't.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Cave_Johnson
(137 posts)People throw out "sue them" much too easily without knowing what really goes into it...
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Using his image and name? Those pigs wouldn't have a dime left if I were Trayvon's relative. And anyone who thinks this is okay is sick.
crayfish
(55 posts)Booster
(10,021 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)For better or worse, at least the vendor says he's just trying to make a buck.
People who get a thrill out of shooting a caricature of Martin need intensive help and probably shouldn't own a deadly weapon. I own guns, but for all my anger and disgust never wanted to shoot a target of Rush Limbaugh. It'd be too big to be sporting anyway.
I remember a comedian who once said we shouldn't ban guns, but charge $100 dollars a bullet. That'd make people more carefully consider what or who they shoot.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I'll have to be ppr'ed again. I hope the FBI knows who bought the targets. Those buyers are dangerous criminals as far as I'm concerned.
mactime
(202 posts)If bad taste was criminal then anybody that purchased the last Madonna release would be in jail.
Meiko
(1,076 posts)been committed, why would the FBI be involved?
24601
(3,962 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)Meiko
(1,076 posts)scumbaggery for a buck.......
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Meiko
(1,076 posts)many gun ranges will not allow these types of targets to be used,
-..__...
(7,776 posts)at least at my range they are...
think
(11,641 posts)appleannie1
(5,067 posts)emptied the asylums onto the street. They reproduced and formed their own party of crazies.
libodem
(19,288 posts)We have a winner! I bow to your unique vision of the truth and fully ascribe! Hubadah.
-..__...
(7,776 posts)Never underestimate the lengths or boundaries some people will go through simply to spark outrage and controversy.
janx
(24,128 posts)the seller noted profit as his/her motivation.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Last edited Fri May 11, 2012, 05:31 PM - Edit history (1)
Only ignorant meatheads would find this funny. It's the mentality that lead us into civil war. Freedom to be stupid.
edit- the danger of quickly posting and then going on a 20 mile bike ride. oops.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)-..__...
(7,776 posts)was selling those long before Martin was shot?
Maeve
(42,282 posts)yardwork
(61,604 posts)tabatha
(18,795 posts)There are some truly f$cked up people in this country.
efhmc
(14,725 posts)Ian David
(69,059 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)solarman350
(136 posts)--suggest it get modified with a Caricature for a face. There has to be something that'll shame the murderous cretins into an epiphany of sorts......something....They seem to believe that the "light at the end of the tunnel" is muzzle flash....
SolarMan350
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)would allow you to put something like that up. No political figures, no real people, etc. That is fucking sick.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)However, this probably does not qualify as "real person" since there is no face.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)and the assumption is the firearm is for self defense, it's perfectly fine.
It's not fine when people try to make a political statement with it. It's stupid. It's sick. In this case, it's a general threat, I would argue.
Human point silhouette targets are used by the military and police as well. No problem there. If you weren't carrying for self defense, then no, you probably wouldn't use that type of target either.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Why would you need to shoot someone at 25 yards? Well, I guess if they are running away, one should be able to shoot them in the back. (Do I need sarcasm thingy?)
NickB79
(19,236 posts)With the option of moving the target out further for people who might be sighting in a hunting revolver or just like to target practice for fun.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)A police officer tried it at Columbine, and missed though, and by missing his target, more students died. So it's not an impossible event to train for.
I would say the officer was completely justified in attempting it. Sad that he missed.
Clames
(2,038 posts)And there is your answer. Of course you, since you yourself own guns, already knew that.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)Be afraid of what you find.
Take your education way beyond the internet, magazines and newspapers.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)You need to leave them at home.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)ANSWER: It's a trick question, they are BOTH sick as shit! Shame on their nasty asses...Judgement will come.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)It is despicable to make them, sell them, or buy them.
--- member of the gun culture.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)a urinal target.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Urinal cakes. I think turn about is fair play.
RT_Fanatic
(224 posts)are utterly deranged.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Capitalism is not always pretty. It's sickening that someone would do this and sicker still that people buy it but there is a market for this kind of crap and this guy filled it. It's the American way.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Imagine if your son was murdered and people create targets of him for imbeciles to shoot at?
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)I would do much worse if I were them.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)april
(1,148 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)being pooed on. I'm trying now to figure out whether these pooed-upon people or the gun range target consumers are the sicker fucks.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)He has to make up the shortfall somehow.
No shortage of images to put on tasteless targets.
Zax2me
(2,515 posts)Anyone who would sell this in the first place has questionable character to begin with.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)...looks like ironic criticism of the shooter no?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)and I guarantee the "artist" didn't overthink anything.
Just making a buck.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)...than the general population.