bad gun publicity

[remytherussell]

Just perusing the old Daily Telegraph Sports section and........shock horror, I turn to the back page.

Quarter page size picture depicting the serious end of a double-barreled shotgun, (fairly rusty I must add) on a background of a pub floor.

"Excuse me, I believe thats my seat" runs the banner.

Bottom corner of ad, a glass of beer, "Ruddles. Serious Country Flavour."

Another example for people to consider gun ownership as senseless killers.

RTR

[rifleman56]

guns will allways look bad in this nanny state guns do not kill things we do.

[jimdfish]

Someone would have to point a shotgun at me before I drank old Ruddles.

Guns are ingrained into society whether we like it or not. People wanting to typify the country " bumpkin" always do so by painting him with a gun in his hand. If they want to portray a picture of the country "squire" they do so with a gun in his hand. Guns and the countryside go together today as much as they did 100 years ago. The advert in question does not brand all gun owners as senseless killers, nor does it suggest in anyway that we are. It is falling back on an age old stereotype in order to sell its wares.

Do sanitary wear adverts make you believe that every time a woman is on the blob she has an overwhelming impulse to hanglide. They dont by the way.

Do you think people who buy 4x4's really go off road ( some do but the majority just go to Sainsbury's and back ).

Calm down love, its an advert. And if you can prove that it has any detrimental affect on shooting I will eat my own **** with new and improved kingsmill and thick heinz tomato sauce.MMMMMM

Jim

P.S If it was a mac-10 or an uzi he was pointing you may have a point