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Why Does The NRA Keep Comparing Women To Guns?
Noir -- a weekly program aired by the National Rifle Association as part of its efforts to reach a younger audience -- has run two segments that fetishize an assault weapon as an attractive woman.
Over the past year the NRA has launched a number of initiatives to engage with women, minorities, and younger Americans. Noir, a Sunday web series hosted by popular gun blogger turned NRA News commentator Colion Noir, is packaged for a Millennial audience, although the show has been widely mocked by critics as a phony and out-of-touch attempt at messaging.
A segment during the June 15 edition of Noir opened with a black-and-white scene of a stylishly-dressed woman standing in an alley. Doing voice-over work, Noir appeared to describe the woman, ranging from her clothing ("Her Jimmy Choo's can't be comfortable, but you'd never know it"
, to her intellect ("Chess, yeah it's a men's game, but when she plays, men pay" , to her actions ("Flirts more than you can handle too. She's the kind to tell the bartender how to make her drink" .
In the final shot, the woman is seen holding a Heckler & Koch MR556 assault weapon and Noir reveals he was talking about the firearm the whole time:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/16/why-does-the-nra-keep-comparing-women-to-guns/199743
Over the past year the NRA has launched a number of initiatives to engage with women, minorities, and younger Americans. Noir, a Sunday web series hosted by popular gun blogger turned NRA News commentator Colion Noir, is packaged for a Millennial audience, although the show has been widely mocked by critics as a phony and out-of-touch attempt at messaging.
A segment during the June 15 edition of Noir opened with a black-and-white scene of a stylishly-dressed woman standing in an alley. Doing voice-over work, Noir appeared to describe the woman, ranging from her clothing ("Her Jimmy Choo's can't be comfortable, but you'd never know it"
, to her intellect ("Chess, yeah it's a men's game, but when she plays, men pay" , to her actions ("Flirts more than you can handle too. She's the kind to tell the bartender how to make her drink" .
In the final shot, the woman is seen holding a Heckler & Koch MR556 assault weapon and Noir reveals he was talking about the firearm the whole time:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/16/why-does-the-nra-keep-comparing-women-to-guns/199743
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...some people in this country don't want the gun to be adjustable to individual shooters. They want people of short stature to grapple with a gun that is oversized for them, because that makes us all safer.
I get the distinct impression that the only gun that some people want to be legal weights 30 pounds, is six feet long, an ergonomic nightmare, and is simultaneously under-powered (after all, high-powered guns are bad, right?) AND has a viscous recoil.
And it's wrapped in barbed wire.
