Posted on 04/30/2013 4:35:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Two billboards in which images of Native Americans are used to make a gun rights argument are causing a stir with some Colorado residents who say the image is offensive and insensitive.
The billboards in this northern Colorado city show three men dressed in traditional Native American attire and the words "Turn in your arms. The government will take care of you."
Matt Wells, an account executive with Lamar Advertising in Denver, said Monday that a group of local residents purchased the space.
"They have asked to remain anonymous," he said.
He also refused to disclose the cost but said the billboards are only appearing in the Greeley area. Wells said he has not received any complaints so far.
"I think it's a little bit extreme, of course, but I think people are really worried about their gun rights and what liberties are going to be taken away," Wells told the Greeley Tribune.
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I am a native american and I approve this message!!!!!
I actually, in the flesh, heard a tribal chairman say that one of the very worst things the USG did to the native was given him money. Welfare destroyed the tribes.
I couldn’t believe it. This is a guy with a painting of Obama in a native headdress riding a horse in his office.
LOL I have seen that photo with the caption “The Original Homeland Security. Fighting Terrorism since 1492”
OUTSTANDING!
I’m 1/16th Cherokee believe it or not. The Georgia and Carolina Cherokees like their gambling, too....firearms and smokes? Georgia isn’t one of them gungrabber or $10/pack states like New York.
Geronimo was a terrorist murderer. Attacked the US in the southern AZ area (Sierra Vista, Huachuca, etc.) and then hightailed back to Mexico.
I’m glad they got him.
Same here. Years ago I had a conversation about this issue with a friend of mine. Be was a "straight from the Res Navajo." (His mother and grandmother were brujas - medicine women - back on the res.)
His comment was almost exactly the same - "Yeah...trust the government to take care of you after they take yer guns...sure...Don't you read history?"
Are you kidding me? I have a Native American friend who himself posted this pic on a forum. Some people’s only purpose in life is to look for ways to be offended,they need to get a life and get over themselves.
I don’t have a problem with it.I think its a great billboard. I don’t know who those Indians are but they don’t speak for me.
I say lock and load. And so do my friends.
second that comment.
My grandmother was Full Blood Creek and I approve of this message.
Of course it wasn't just about the guns. That was just a step in the process. Just like now.
The ultimate goal can't be realized against an armed people.
I'll bet she has high cheekbones and maybe 1/32nd Native blood, if that, but she does have 100% Democrat blood.
DING DING DING! We have a winner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1nPSNnaBo
only 2 minutes - pass it on after viewing. it is going viral ...
I doubt that's true in Oklahoma. I'm too busy to look it up though.
I would bet money that this story does not reflect the consensus.
Which one? 1890 or 1973?
Elizabeth Warren is a disgrace. She used that BS to get her into this and that. This AA has to stop.
LOL!
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