If you were running would you make an ad like this? Is he really pointing the gun directly at the kid or is it just perspective? How will this affect the gun debate?
He never pointed the weapon at the kid. Just looks like that from the camera angle. Its pointed out in front of the kid.
Kind of a dumb thing to do. It's pointed close enough, even if not directly at him, that I doubt any gun safety instructors would recommend doing it. Kind of a careless way to portray yourself.
It's a Southern thing. Back 60 years ago it wasn't uncommon for the father to involve a shotgun if someone was dating one of his daughters. Mostly for intimidation, since he didn't want his daughter ending up pregnant out of marriage. Or to try to scare off a boy he didn't believe was good for his daughter.
It's not pointed directly at him, but he definitely would have gotten some powder burns if it had gone off.
Meanwhile, Hollywood's lefties entertain the dull-eyed masses by pointing guns at people all the time and not a single leftie buttercup complains.
"It's only a movie, it's only a movie" After all, it's in a theatre, not on YouTube, so you don't HAVE to believe it.
OMG a gun!!! The ad was successful because it got attention in a location this was completely acceptable except to gun-haters.
Tell that to Brandon Lee. You knowm, the guy who died on the set of The Crow due to being shot by a loaded gun by mistake. There is a reason you do not point loaded guns at people as seen by the number of accidental deaths from firearms every year, week, or even day. As for the leftie buttercup thing if anyone ever points a loaded gun at me as a joke they will lose that gun deep in their colon along with both of their hands for their transgression. I do not need to be shot by some moron by accident. If you aim a gun at me you had better kill me with it.
How about Terry Kath of the rock band Chicago.....And where is the usless NRA teaching gun safty with such a stupid move?
LOL. The gun was never in that clip, pointed at the young man. In fact, if it had discharged, it would have scared the crap out of the kid, but it is clearly pointed not at him. And it was a an ad that might appeal to southerners, given his daughter was brought into it. Hell, when my oldest daughter had her first date, which was not a double date, I met her suitor at the door with my remington 1100, 12 gauge, as I had decided to clean it about the time he was due to show up. I did it as a joke, caricaturing a concerned dad. And I had the same thing done to me when I was a teen,and showed up to take a father's daughter to prom. It is our southern sense of humor. So much ado about jack sh*t in regards to the OP.
