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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 06:40 AM Nov 2015

Gun porn: Magazines found in easy access to kids

ATLANTA (CBS46) -The next time you are in a grocery or convenience store, check out the magazine aisle. As CBS46 investigative reporter Karyn Greer found out, gun porn appears to be more popular than travel and cooking magazines and in plain sight of impressionable children.

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
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Gun porn: Magazines found in easy access to kids (Original Post) SecularMotion Nov 2015 OP
A media outlet actually wrote that? Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2015 #1
Latest "Garden & Gun" has Reese Witherspoon on the cover... Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #44
Now they target the 1st...and haven't even extinguished the Second Amendment yet. ileus Nov 2015 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author branford Nov 2015 #3
"Gun porn," really? branford Nov 2015 #4
Remember these are the folks that want cops to shoot first and citizens to attack gun owners. ileus Nov 2015 #5
watching Mary Tyler Moore reruns inspired her to be gejohnston Nov 2015 #19
A Classic Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #24
Beauty Magazines JonathanRackham Nov 2015 #6
Which is why I object to the expression "ammosexual." Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #45
I love the commets, lol Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #7
The best one, IMO: "And travel magazines make children run away..." friendly_iconoclast Nov 2015 #20
Love that one Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #21
File this one under; "Desperate Flailing by Gun Control Supporters" DonP Nov 2015 #8
I have the gun porn delivered in the mail. Saves me quite a bit of money. Waldorf Nov 2015 #9
Is it wrapped in plain brown paper? As the gun-worshipping porn that it is? Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #51
Nah, it's wrapped the same way your copy of "Gun Control Monthy". DonP Nov 2015 #52
Getting desperate? GGJohn Nov 2015 #10
Post removed Post removed Nov 2015 #11
nice to know you care discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #13
sounds like someone is tracking and alerting Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #15
Just as we were getting into sexual stereotypes, a Maurice Chevalier refrain is heard! Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #46
Secmo is right...they love to alert on folks around here. ileus Nov 2015 #16
Looks like it backfired Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #23
That happened to Shares a lot also... ileus Nov 2015 #27
Under several identities - but he still got canned each time DonP Nov 2015 #29
Wow!!!!! GGJohn Nov 2015 #30
I did not either Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #32
13000 posts....zero alerts, I'm proud of not being thin skinned. ileus Nov 2015 #34
Good for you!!! Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #35
Like a lunar eclipse: Everybody's seen one, but few have seen many. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #47
Staged photography in a magazine? What did they think a magazine was? Brickbat Nov 2015 #12
Thank you Justice Potter Stewart discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #14
Culture war. krispos42 Nov 2015 #17
going undercover in a Publix? gejohnston Nov 2015 #18
I *had* to check that one- and yep, they actually used that howler... friendly_iconoclast Nov 2015 #22
That's Pubelix to you, sir. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #48
Are you saying that... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #25
Well, now is that "paste" or "pasties." It makes all the difference. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #49
ROFLMAO!!! That is Hilarious!!! virginia mountainman Nov 2015 #26
"Gun Ban Monthly" beevul Nov 2015 #31
I am sure it will sell out Duckhunter935 Nov 2015 #33
Actually, "Gun ban monthly" is likely at the heart of this matter. beevul Nov 2015 #41
Same goes for "Gun Control" websites DonP Nov 2015 #42
Precisely. N/T beevul Nov 2015 #43
Its ok Travis_0004 Nov 2015 #28
That is hilarious. If Bloomberg paid for that "story", he got ripped off. benEzra Nov 2015 #36
BTW, here are the magazines they are talking about: benEzra Nov 2015 #37
Excellent analysis. Kang Colby Nov 2015 #38
Well, my Field & Stream has a big-assed buck on the cover. Should seen the lighting. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #50
Do people really get worked up into a lather over silly stuff like that? How small minded... ileus Nov 2015 #39
A culture war looks for any inane topic to latch onto... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #40
So now they want to ban assault magazines... ileus Nov 2015 #53
Has no one mentioned the fact ... Straw Man Nov 2015 #54

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)
1. A media outlet actually wrote that?
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 06:58 AM
Nov 2015
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.

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)
44. Latest "Garden & Gun" has Reese Witherspoon on the cover...
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 02:19 PM
Nov 2015

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)
2. Now they target the 1st...and haven't even extinguished the Second Amendment yet.
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 07:41 AM
Nov 2015

Is there any question to the regressive authoritarians real motives concerning the 2A?


Response to ileus (Reply #2)

 

branford

(4,462 posts)
4. "Gun porn," really?
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 08:00 AM
Nov 2015

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)
5. Remember these are the folks that want cops to shoot first and citizens to attack gun owners.
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 08:05 AM
Nov 2015

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)
19. watching Mary Tyler Moore reruns inspired her to be
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 03:21 PM
Nov 2015

a journalist. Unfortunately, she chose Ted Baxter as her role model.

JonathanRackham

(1,604 posts)
6. Beauty Magazines
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 08:21 AM
Nov 2015

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)
45. Which is why I object to the expression "ammosexual."
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 02:27 PM
Nov 2015

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)
7. I love the commets, lol
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 08:55 AM
Nov 2015
Really? That's news? Kinda reaching are we?

"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."
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.

So, since cars are involved in more deaths than guns, are you going to go on a crusade against "Car & Driver"? What about all those other "Car porn" magazines?
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.

Waldorf

(654 posts)
9. I have the gun porn delivered in the mail. Saves me quite a bit of money.
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 09:46 AM
Nov 2015

Wonder if this writer is also complaining about the glossy covers with sexy young women laying on the hoods of hot rod car magazines?

Response to GGJohn (Reply #10)

ileus

(15,396 posts)
16. Secmo is right...they love to alert on folks around here.
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 01:04 PM
Nov 2015

When you don't have an argument, alert. Used to be a tactic of that goofy shares poster back in the day.

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
30. Wow!!!!!
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 08:38 PM
Nov 2015

His post was hidden? Will wonders never cease?
The funny thing is, I didn't alert on it, I just got in.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,578 posts)
14. Thank you Justice Potter Stewart
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 12:38 PM
Nov 2015

"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."

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
18. going undercover in a Publix?
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 02:56 PM
Nov 2015

what is this, Ted Baxter meets Barney Fife? The editor who signed off on this, was it Alfred E. Neuman?

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,578 posts)
25. Are you saying that...
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 06:22 PM
Nov 2015

...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.

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)
26. ROFLMAO!!! That is Hilarious!!!
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 06:52 PM
Nov 2015

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)
41. Actually, "Gun ban monthly" is likely at the heart of this matter.
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 10:00 PM
Nov 2015

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)
42. Same goes for "Gun Control" websites
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 01:01 AM
Nov 2015

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.

 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
28. Its ok
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 07:37 PM
Nov 2015

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)
37. BTW, here are the magazines they are talking about:
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 10:12 PM
Nov 2015

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.

ileus

(15,396 posts)
39. Do people really get worked up into a lather over silly stuff like that? How small minded...
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 09:27 AM
Nov 2015

can one get?

Hoplophobia stoops to new lows...

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,578 posts)
40. A culture war looks for any inane topic to latch onto...
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 09:51 AM
Nov 2015

...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?

Straw Man

(6,774 posts)
54. Has no one mentioned the fact ...
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 07:17 PM
Nov 2015

... 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.

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