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.
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?)
ReplyDeleteI know I want one!
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"
ReplyDeleteand 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
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?)
ReplyDeleteAnother 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!
The gun, I believe, is called:
ReplyDeleteWhich 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.
Don't know how the hell that happened! Anyways, it's called CornerShot.
ReplyDeleteNot a gun, a sighting system. Submarines have had something similar for decades, we call them periscopes.
ReplyDeleteThis 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".
ReplyDeleteYou'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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteTrue, Mike. But it's only available to law enforcement, unless I'm mistaken.
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