Posted on 02/01/2010 7:26:53 AM PST by 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......
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Sounds like a good ad to me especially if it pi$$ of the Brady Bunch......
Well, they DON'T own the airwaves, nor prior restraint on public discourse. When they learn that, their frustration level will go down.
Isn't this less of a gun culture thing and more a basketball thug issue.
The ad has less to do with gun rights than it does with gang-banger mentality.
Let’s not go off half cocked just because someone used some
firearms related slang.
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.
“Going off half cocked” is firearms related? Oh.
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