NRA offers "practice range" shooting app

[Londo_Jowo]

Targets shaped like coffins. Not so subtle

When was the last time you visited a gun range? Many have adopted this style target rather than the silhouette of a person. Though last year there were some sales of hoodie wearing targets.

 

[momeNt]

How many of these kids were cremated as opposed to buried? Would really put a damper on the coffin-target outragers.

 

[Doppel]

Anybody in this thread condemning the NRA for putting blame on violent vid games but calling them a hypocrit over this is nuts themselves.

 

[momeNt]

Anybody in this thread condemning the NRA for putting blame on violent vid games but calling them a hypocrit over this is nuts themselves.

It's a case-in-point example that they believe guns are violent in and of themselves.

It would be the same as if Wustof or Shun launched an app where you could cut vegetables on your IPad in the wake of a terrible mass stabbing, IE. unrelated and those offended would be idiots.

 

[ivwshane]

don't patronize me.

being that I didn't (and won't) download the app, I have no idea how safety was presented in it. but given that it's probably made by the same people who make insights, you can bet it's gonna be bland and mostly focused on trying to teach gun safety.


...i know this because i read them. >.>
safety information was displayed in a lot of ways. gun handling rules, safety mascots, etc. google nra insights, check their homepage to see some idea of how they handle it. it may have changed in the past 15 years (since i stopped recieving them...) but i doubt all that much.

the magazines mostly focused on target shooting (things like camp perry, or boy scouts, etc), or kids going hunting with parents, and so on. they did NOT have the anecdotes about guns being used in self-defense or stopping a crime that are featured in every other NRA publication. (those things are not appropriate to a children's publication, and the NRA knows that...)

So you admit that the magazine, just like the app, focused on targets rather than safety and the safety portion was rather bland and you don't recall too much of it?

I wonder what the right would say about something like this if it was sesame street and they thought sesame street was pushing their agenda....


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Today's word is; indoctrination

 

[Fayd]

So you admit that the magazine, just like the app, focused on targets rather than safety and the safety portion was rather bland and you don't recall too much of it?

1: what targets in a magazine? the magazine was geared towards responsible gun ownership and use. safety is part of responsible gun ownership and use, but it isn't everything. 2: i admitted the magazine in general was bland. not the safety aspects of it specifically. I said nothing about the app, as I admitted I haven't and won't download it. 3: i don't recall much of the magazine in general, but i did remember the kid specific rules for if you see a gun. let's see how much you remember of a publication from 15 years ago that you haven't seen since. >.>

the reason the magazine was bland is it was written to some 60 year old's idealized interpretation of what a 12 year old kid would like to read. note that A LOT of magazines geared towards kids do this. not that it's a horrible thing. for reference, to see what a commercially successful franchise geared towards kids looks like...look at nickelodeon. *shudder*

 

[monovillage]

I'd have preferred you post this article with links to an unbiased opinion.

"spits on the graves" yes, that sounds unbiased.

 

[monovillage]

Targets shaped like coffins. Not so subtle

Those are common silhouette range targets, but you wouldn't know about that, so you use a fake "shaped like coffins" lie, derp-a-derp.

 

[SheHateMe]

Wow, the NRA really sucks at making video games. No wonder they seem to hate the industry so much.

Those that can't do...hate.

 

[Lemon law]

Lets see if I can get my arms around this, first the NRA claims violent video games like grand theft auto that glorifies criminality is at the real root of the American gun violence problems. And now the NRA comes up with a another violent video game with coffin shape targets and claims the exact same social goals as grand theft auto. Shoot first with more accuracy and only the bad guys will be exterminated. As only the good guys with the fastest reflexes win again.Because good guys wear while hats and bad guys always wear black hats.

Somehow I don't feel safer yet.

Especially after statisticians examine stand your ground laws. As the findings are and remain, such stand your ground laws have very little effect in terms of black on black gun violence, black on white gun violence, white on black gun violence, as the only stat that increases by about 10% is white on white gun violence as both sides on such shootings feel they are on the right side of stand your ground gun laws.

 

[SheHateMe]

Grand Theft Auto taught me how to drive a car. Its true.

 

[werepossum]

Lets see if I can get my arms around this, first the NRA claims violent video games like grand theft auto that glorifies criminality is at the real root of the American gun violence problems. And now the NRA comes up with a another violent video game with coffin shape targets and claims the exact same social goals as grand theft auto. Shoot first with more accuracy and only the bad guys will be exterminated. As only the good guys with the fastest reflexes win again.Because good guys wear while hats and bad guys always wear black hats.

Somehow I don't feel safer yet.

Especially after statisticians examine stand your ground laws. As the findings are and remain, such stand your ground laws have very little effect in terms of black on black gun violence, black on white gun violence, white on black gun violence, as the only stat that increases by about 10% is white on white gun violence as both sides on such shootings feel they are on the right side of stand your ground gun laws.

Evidently you can't get your arms around it.

But hey, at least you can be at the forefront of the movement against violence toward targets. Everyone else may think you're an idiot standing by himself, but you'll know you're leading a fledgling movement to establish that shooting targets and shooting bystanders are all gun violence. For too long targets have been second class citizens . . .