Follies of the Mad Men #1
Madison Avenue! Home to brilliant, canny advertising geniuses, who can convince millions of people to buy or believe anything! And then again, even Homer nodded.Yes, it's true. Back in 1962, some genius of a press agent thought the image of the National Rifle Association could be improved by creating a cartoon spokesman who would offer rhymed messages about not accidentally offing your friends.
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Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
I'm laughing so hard at this one... I still don't think that the US realises how much the rest of the world look at them as a Freak nation on just their stance on guns alone.
Sheeeeesh
Sheeeeesh
Posted by Grant McDonald in Australia on 07/09 at 06:41 PM
Tipper Flintlock needs to be revived to explain the need to own automatic rifles!
Posted by Paul on 07/10 at 06:42 AM
Sorry, I'm going to make a very unpopular point here. Well, it's true, and truth is always unpopular.
The NRA offered to pay for a series of cartoon PSAa that would have told kids through a cartoon eagle that if they saw a gun they were never to touch it, but to leave it alone and tell a teacher, police officer or responsible adult where it was.
Now, pause and ask yourselves, particulalry those who live in Australia ( A hunting nation that admittedly prefers to murder people with knives for bushmeat ), or South Africa ( 130% higher gun violence crimes than the USA )does this sound like a pro-gun-use message, considering how clos eit was to the NZ and Australian eductaion plan in schools beofre they simply decide not to mention guns except as something Americans wuse to gain more oil?
Congress described this message as "Repugnant and practically a primer on committing a Columbine tragedy", "No more than Joe Camel with feathers and a machine gun" and "A clear instruction to gun violence".
Did I miss something? Although Congress is the same august body that declared as "Too dangerous and powerful to be put under the control of human beings" the 'so-called internal combustion engine' and also claimed Pearl Hrabour might have been done by the British Royal Navy - "Those masters of propoganda", this seems to be a rather biased view of a very wise safety message.
The NRA offered to pay for a series of cartoon PSAa that would have told kids through a cartoon eagle that if they saw a gun they were never to touch it, but to leave it alone and tell a teacher, police officer or responsible adult where it was.
Now, pause and ask yourselves, particulalry those who live in Australia ( A hunting nation that admittedly prefers to murder people with knives for bushmeat ), or South Africa ( 130% higher gun violence crimes than the USA )does this sound like a pro-gun-use message, considering how clos eit was to the NZ and Australian eductaion plan in schools beofre they simply decide not to mention guns except as something Americans wuse to gain more oil?
Congress described this message as "Repugnant and practically a primer on committing a Columbine tragedy", "No more than Joe Camel with feathers and a machine gun" and "A clear instruction to gun violence".
Did I miss something? Although Congress is the same august body that declared as "Too dangerous and powerful to be put under the control of human beings" the 'so-called internal combustion engine' and also claimed Pearl Hrabour might have been done by the British Royal Navy - "Those masters of propoganda", this seems to be a rather biased view of a very wise safety message.
Posted by DFStuckey in Auckland New Zealand on 08/27 at 08:08 PM
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