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Originally posted by jaguar
I saw an interesting question today. Would guns be so popular if by law they all had to be neon pink and fluffy.
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Nice to see you've been by a-human-right.com.
Oleg is a Pink Pistols member, and has done a lot of wonderful photographic work supporting our cause.
The problem with "neon pink and fluffy" guns is that they would be terribly difficult to conceal or use. For the same reason the flourescent pink fanny packs with the built-in concealment holster are so unpopular that they're being sold off at a deep discount.
This image doesn't do the saturation of the colors on this thing justice, I've seen them in real life:
There actually are handguns with pink grips, but they are indeed not very popular, although members of
the Pink Pistols often joke that they're considering buying one.
http://www.cdnninvestments.com is the source, but the gun prohibitionisists have driven their ads for actual firearms offline. You'll have to download their catalog to actually see one.
Failing that, pink replacement handgrips for the venerable Colt Model 1911 are available:
You know, computers wouldn't be so popular if by law they all had to be colored flourescent-puke green and covered with rubber cement, either.
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Basically without getting bogged down in it the Jews controlling Israel is a prerequisite for it to happen, which is of course followed closely by the fundie brigade who see everything from S11 to the launch of vanilla coke for the last 500 years as a sign of the second coming. Most of them are in the Republican Party.
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Well, I wouldn't expect to find them in the Democratic Party, that's for the Jews, queers, Blacks and Hispanics, right?
I do have to correct your assumpton--many of the true fundiefolk here--the tinfoil-hat squad of the apocalypse-watchers--are neither Republican nor Democrat. When push copmes to shove they're more likely to support a Republican, of course, but they're not happy with either mainstream party...they tend to form splinter parties of their own, much to the relief of the GOP, who finds them embarassing.
The idea that they're 1/3 of the *US population* (as opposed to a third of the participants in whatever survey that was) is beyond ridiculous. Do tell us what the methodology and other choices in that survey were and who the cohort was...certainly if I saw a survey where that was one of the possible respnses I don't think I'd bother to participate.
It certainly seems that your perception of the US is about as accurate as that of AU conveyed by "Crocodile Dundee". We're 280 million people living in 9 million square km.; movies, network TV and Time Magazine can't tell you our real story any more than they can accurately convey what China is about. You're ready to vacation in Cambodia...swing by the Great Satan sometime.