Anti Firearms Brady Campaign Mad About Kobe Bryant Ad

secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com/ ^ | 02/01/10 | Sasparilla

[Sasparilla]

The Brady anti gun rights campaign and the NBA were both offended by a recent Nike ad featuring two of the NBA's biggest basketball stars. This, after the gun flap with Washington Wizards stars. The ad was created months before Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were suspended for having guns in the locker room.

The ad showed James on one page and Bryant on the adjoining page. It had the slogan, "Prepare For Combat." "I'll do whatever it takes to win games. I don't leave anything in the chamber." James said such slang is common among his peers.

Nothing has been working in the Brady's anti gun push lately. So, the Bradys thought they would give this a try. Here's what the Bradys had to say.

"...Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement about new print ads for Nike featuring NBA celebrity Kobe Bryant:

"Just a few days ago, the National Basketball Association suspended two players for the season for irresponsible behavior with firearms. Now, Kobe Bryant and Nike demonstrate an irresponsible, sophomoric attitude about guns.

While I know Nike won't get suspended for the season by the NBA, I hope the league will let them know that this advertisement is both off message and badly timed. We need to drop the gun glorification in pro basketball, and that especially applies to million dollar ad campaigns."

What's next, insurance companies protesting ads that saying that a sales event will be a "barn burner?" Will this incite people to commit arson? Or, Fruit of the Loom knocking an ad saying, "This will......

[goat granny]

Sounds like a good ad to me especially if it pi$$ of the Brady Bunch......

[Still Thinking]

I love how the Bradys and other rights-hating groups think they're allowed to hold the keys to polite society. If you want to be a basketball player [football player, newscaster, whatever] you have to agree with THEIR political point of view. You can hold opposing views (for now), but if you do you're just too hick, too redneck to allow out in public.

Well, they DON'T own the airwaves, nor prior restraint on public discourse. When they learn that, their frustration level will go down.

[USNBandit]

They are absolutely right. We need to move that "Pistol Pete" Maravich's name is never uttered again and that he be removed from the Hall of Fame. /3 Stooges Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk.

Isn't this less of a gun culture thing and more a basketball thug issue.

[Sans-Culotte]

The ad has less to do with gun rights than it does with gang-banger mentality.

[CrazyIvan]

Let’s not go off half cocked just because someone used some
firearms related slang.

[Red in Blue PA]

I would side with people like Kobe if they actually went to the range to shoot and exercise their 2A rights. However, it is apparent from this slang that this is more of a gangsta issue than it is a 2A issue.

I will never side with the gangsta wannabes.....ever.

[Still Thinking]

“Going off half cocked” is firearms related? Oh.

[CrazyIvan]

Muzzle loaders and flint locks have a “half cocked” position so that they can be primed. This is also considered a kind of safety as the trigger will not let the
hammer fall until it is pulled to full cocked and then released. However, the half cock sear can wear or be defective
and the gun will go off accidentally, sometimes if jarred.
There you have it. Lock, stock, and barrel.