Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumGun porn: Magazines found in easy access to kids
Sexually explicit and tabloid magazines are kept on the top shelves of stores to keep them out of sight of precious young children, but gun magazines are in plain sight and easy reach for anyone to grab and take a peek.
"It just proliferates the spread of guns and glamourizes guns and everything that goes along with it," said Glenn Sutton.
Gun porn is described as photos of guns that display them in the same carefully posed and lighted manner as the models in traditional pornography. The magazines include glossy covers with sexy young women armed and ready to shoot.
http://www.cbs46.com/story/30428851/gun-porn-magazines-found-in-easy-access-to-kids
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Ummmm -- not to draw too fine a point but that's literally every staged photo to ever appear in any publication ever in the history of visual media.
Ever see a cooking magazine? Is this now food porn? Is my subscription to Mother Earth News peddling organic farming porn? (I'd ask about woodworking magazines and porn but I can already hear the giggling and snickering.)
It's creepy that everything controllers -- as controllers -- fixate on reduces to a sexual level. People who are sex obsessed and demand control of their targets are deeply disturbed and dangerous individuals.
"Why are you looking at him? You were talking to him weren't you? You're fucking him, aren't you? I need to know where you are, who you're seeing and what you're talking about. If you don't answer your phone when I call there's going to be trouble. I don't want you hanging out with them anymore...
"I love you," said every stalker, always.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)And she is part of the latest Hollywood offensive for gun control!
But posing and "lighted manner" has been around since Plato.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Is there any question to the regressive authoritarians real motives concerning the 2A?
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branford
(4,462 posts)I'm curious why we don't see any articles and news stories complaining about the pervasive (and often unrealistic and without consequence) firearm violence in so many of our popular movies, television shows, and even music, particularly all the easily accessible magazines and other media that media glorify, publicize and promote such firearm violence, including clearly visible firearms. The dozens of mainstream entertainment and music magazines are far closer to anything that could ever be categorized as "gun porn" than any of the various, and far less numerous, hunting, sport, collectible or defense magazines on display.
Any pretense of "gun safety" by the usual gun control suspects has now been rendered totally and completely moot.
As always, the quest has been the elimination of purported "gun culture" (i.e., mostly rural and exurban culture and history, including hunting and firearm sport, focused on the South and Midwest), and the push-back will be unrelenting and politically disastrous for Democrats outside of some urban enclaves.
It's so very sad to see people who claim to be liberal and progressive acting like elitist, tyrannical, and repressive Puritans.
ileus
(15,396 posts)put nothing past these violent gun ban extremist.....they don't mind cops shooting folks or random attacks of innocent people, if they attack or shoot the "right" types.
Make no mistake it's not about the Kids reading or seeing gun magazines, it's about the magazines existing in the first place.
These people will stop at nothing to control your thoughts and actions...
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)a journalist. Unfortunately, she chose Ted Baxter as her role model.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)Funny I have a feminist friend and daughter who find the "Beauty Magazines" sexist and pay no attention to the gun rags. My son is a gamer and grabs the usual IT porn mag. I'm a fly fisherman, PETA thinks I'm a murderer and is offended by the fishing porn and Field & Stream. I also look at the cooking porn and ohhhhh that Popular Mechanics which has an occasional gun ad.
Offense is in the eye of the beholder. "Porn" is a specific word hijacked. It's original application was to describe the objeftification and exploitation of women in a sexual manner using media. Later it was extended to males in the same context. The use of the word porn in a bastard manner is offensive to those who have been exploited.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)I can put up with "gun humper," "need to compensate," and endless talk of penis, but "ammosexual" must of necessity borrow its pejorative power by swapping out the first two letters of a reference to people discriminated against in our society; otherwise, it's smear factor would be of no greater value than the usual psycho-babble-related crap that clogs the culture wars.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Oh, really. Since when is professional product photography "the same carefully posed and lighted manner as the models in traditional pornography"?
Is this an Onion piece? Is this a joke? Please tell me it's an early release of a 2016 April's Fool piece.
You go on to quote "It just proliferates the spread of guns and glamourizes guns and everything that goes along with it," as if that is a bad thing.
CBS, no wonder the general public keeps turning their back to you.
Or do you only care if people are killed by a bullet?
You're all hypocrites. And ignorant to boot.
Gun magazines are simply showcasing well engineered machines.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)Waldorf
(654 posts)Wonder if this writer is also complaining about the glossy covers with sexy young women laying on the hoods of hot rod car magazines?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Any comment SecMo? Oh, wait........................................
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discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,578 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)I hope it is not you that would stalk another member.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)When you don't have an argument, alert. Used to be a tactic of that goofy shares poster back in the day.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)His post was hidden? Will wonders never cease?
The funny thing is, I didn't alert on it, I just got in.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Wonders never cease to amaze me 👍
ileus
(15,396 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,578 posts)"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Yawn.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)what is this, Ted Baxter meets Barney Fife? The editor who signed off on this, was it Alfred E. Neuman?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,578 posts)...because lots of pro-control folks are sheep (and accept whatever a PR pusher, media hack or politician say) that those folks believe children will see a picture of a gun and... and what? Pick up a stick or a toy and play cops and robbers?
I have read a few of your OPs with interest but this isn't your best paste.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)Wonder why they have all those gun magazines?? Because they SELL!!! And evidently sell much better than other subjects! Yes, we know, gun rights are in ascendance! *GASP* They had to go undercover in a grocery store! ROFLMAO, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This article puts on wide open public display once again, how out of touch gun control advocates and their sycophants in the media really are. Those magazines would NOT be their, if they were not selling.
Hey Bloomberg, why don't you fund a "Gun Ban Monthly" and see how well it sells to the public in comparison!!!!!
beevul
(12,194 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)beevul
(12,194 posts)Because there is no such thing as 'gun ban monthly', and no such thing as 'gun ban monthly' would ever swim rather than sink in terms of surviving as a publication, certain individuals feel the need to try to even the playing field by attacking what others have and that they themselves can not have:
Legitimacy and credibility.
DonP
(6,185 posts)The few that are even out there are all one way communications.
No discussion allowed.
You'd think with "90% of the people supporting gun control" and "the tide having turned" there would at least be a few sites out there for the gun control fans and maybe an E-Zine or two.
beevul
(12,194 posts)Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)All the gun pictures in magazine are not carefully staged or lit.
Sometimes they leave the lights off when taking the photo, but the description tells me what it should be
benEzra
(12,148 posts)benEzra
(12,148 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 8, 2015, 08:39 AM - Edit history (2)
http://www.gunsandammo.com/http://sportsafield.com/
http://www.shootingtimes.com/
http://www.fieldandstream.com/
http://americanhandgunner.com/
http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/publications/personal-home-defense/
Funny thing is, if you go to those links and look at the covers, you won't find a single scantily clad model, female or male. The one image the article tried to use to support their "porn" meme was a professional-looking woman in business attire aiming a gun while calling 9-1-1 (on the cover of a magazine that caters heavily to female gun owners), and the Duck Dynasty guys. Yes, the Duck Dynasty guys. If that is "porn" to you, then you need to get out more.
What's even more hilarious is that this TV station serves central fricking Georgia, where half or more of households likely own guns, meaning that half of this station's target market is pointing at their TV and howling with laughter, and the other half is scratching their heads and saying "they call that porn?"
Edited to add: The magazine in the second row, left, has a guy in a T-shirt on the cover. Second row, right, has a rifle with a flashlight on the cover. "Porn", indeed.
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)Yet another classic by looney tune gun controllers.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)can one get?
Hoplophobia stoops to new lows...
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,578 posts)...and then tries to make it an issue.
Guns.
Semi-auto guns.
Semi-auto guns with hi-cap mags.
Assault weapons (aka evil black Semi-auto guns with hi-cap mags).
Pictures of guns.
Pictures of Semi-auto guns.
...
Greetings gun-control; is that a genuine look of terror or have you just found a new angle on irrelevance?
ileus
(15,396 posts)of the paper kind
Straw Man
(6,774 posts)... that you can see more glorification of guns and gun violence in a single evening's television programming than you can in a month's worth of all the gun magazines put together?
Gun porn? Puh-leeze ... ABC, CBS, and NBC are the largest purveyors thereof in the world.