Tuesday, September 26, 2006

PMS Miami

Dave Licht advises me:
I wanted to bring to your attention a particularly offensive ad that has been running all day 9-26- on KNEW radio which is an ABC affiliate in the SF Bay area.

What I keep hearing is: Some gang has "a gun that shoots around corners"....... "CSI Miami......because you never know how much damage a gun can do".......

Apparently more than head full of fluff agenda driven copywriters.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

That episode airs tonight. The gun in question is a new law enforcement weapon that the gang stole. The weapon has been on the news, so it's real. (I wonder how the studio got 'em for the show?)

I know I want one!

Anonymous said...

Regardless of any basis and more to the point is the relentless drumbeat of the message "because you never know how much damage a gun can do" pounded into the "public" head relentlessly 50 times a day several days in a week through the format of advertising EFFECTIVELY REINFORCING A PUBLIC BELIEF that "you never know how much damage a gun can do"

and ultimately....EEK! It's a gun....bad gun....bad gun...."because you never know how much damage a gun can do".....

THIS IS PROGRAMING plain and simple and, of course, deliberate.

DL

Anonymous said...

DL, trust me, I get your point! It IS a constant drumbeat of "gun bad, gun bad!" That, of course, is what the show is going to tout--gang gets guns, ergo, guns bad! (Never mind that I don't trust the state gang (cops) with a weapon like this! Did I tell you that I want one?)

Another thing you will NOT see on this show is a successful self-defense with a gun. Only Horatio gets to kill the bad guys in this show. (Notice how everyone else does the grunt work, then he gets the glory? And he's SUCH a poser!)

Just how effective is this on the public head full of mush? The other day, I was in a store selling Halloween costumes. A kid picked out a pirate costume with a toy flintlock pistol. Mom allowed him the costume, but told him that he could not play with the pistol after Halloween.

God help us all!

E. David Quammen said...

The gun, I believe, is called:



Which isn't really a gun, but an apparatus that you fit a gun into. It really is no big deal. The only practical application is intense L.E./Assassin use scenarios.

E. David Quammen said...

Don't know how the hell that happened! Anyways, it's called CornerShot.

Anonymous said...

Not a gun, a sighting system. Submarines have had something similar for decades, we call them periscopes.

Rico said...

This is old hat, and stupid besides. The Krauts had a barrel extension for the STG44 that worked at about 45 degrees; in the one that went to 90 degrees the bullet disintegrated before leaving the muzzle. Neither was accurate past a few feet. An answer to a question no one ever asked, and just more Hollywood sensationalism of anything "gun".

Anonymous said...

You're right, of course. It's not a gun, but a device that holds the gun and lets you see around corners, sighting along the gun. I could probably build a simple version of it.

Anonymous said...

The Cornershot is a fantastic device, usable in urban conflict (developed by Israelis) or for law enforcement. Eventually somebody will desing and fit one to a .270 and deer hunting will be changed forever - no more letting the deer see you move from behind the tree to take your shot. As for the comment "I could build a simple version," while you are no doubt correct, the Cornershot got there first.

Anonymous said...

True, Mike. But it's only available to law enforcement, unless I'm mistaken.