S&W Clothing Line
Cool. Even better:
But John Rosenthal, a gun owner and founder of Stop Handgun Violence, said he’s outraged by Smith & Wesson’s new line, adding that 150 Americans are shot daily and 83 die, eight of whom are children or teens.
Baw. Who’s a sad clown?
March 25th, 2011 at 9:27 am
I am sure this has been blogged about by numerous serious gun rights advocates, but let me point out how easy it is to refute the mindless regurgitations of anti-rights bigots using the internet.
“We have a gun violence epidemic and Smith & Wesson is a part of the problem,” Rosenthal said.
Mr. Rosenthal is incorrect, according to the DOJ/FBI annual reports on violent crime. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr which took me about 1 minute to find using Google.
The only gun violence statistic I see going up year to year regarding gun violence is the number of justifiable homicides by police and private citizens, and those small numbers may not be significant statistically. Essentially all other gun-related violent crime statistics are declining, or staying statistically flat, from 2004 to 2009 (as far forward as the data is available, and back as I cared to go).
While the raw numbers of violent crimes committed using guns as a weapon is not zero, it is not an increasingly growing “epidemic.”
Fear mongering does not work, and should not be tolerated, in the face of factual information to the contrary.
March 25th, 2011 at 9:28 am
Although “Baw. Who’s a sad clown?” gets the same message across much more succinctly, and with the appropriate amount of ridicule.
March 25th, 2011 at 10:32 am
Hasn’t Smith & Wesson always had a clothing line?
I bought a t-shirt (the retro ad of the guy shooting the bear) in the mid-90s. Still wear it to the gym.
March 25th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
83 times 365 days equals 30,295 deaths a year. About 10, 000 more than automobiles, I think. So by his Math, It is Safer to Drink and Drive rather than owning a Gun. Lying P.O.S.
March 26th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I am sure he is equally offended by Chevy branded clothing.