I guess maybe because pictures like this trivialise the weapon itself and make it look like a 'fun thing' or a 'cool thing' to have fun with. When it's not?
CCM is right, guns are a weapon. They're used to kill living things. The gravity of that, seems lost on many.
Sure there are people who are hunters and licensed to have weapons. But Australia is not like America (thank god) where guns are easier to buy than birth control and the cause of so many accidental deaths, used in stupidity/play, in the 'heat of the moment' or found by children and accidentally discharged, resulting in their own death, or the death of someone else.
I don't think guns are fun.
I don't think there's any place or use for them in mainstream society either.
But I don't find the picture itself offensive.
Have you ever even used one Bella?
Guns are fun, they are very fun and I grew up on a farm using them from a young boy. This deluded scare mongering of guns really has to stop, the only reason the Australian government took our guns away is because of the control factor, they can control an unarmed society much easier.
The reality is that guns are no worse than knives or any other weapon when used irresponsibly, it's not the gun that points and kills, it's the person behind it.
And before saying 'what about the kids that die from guns being left around' go and have a look at how many kids die from drinking bleach being left out.....it's a ridiculous argument.
THE PIC IS NOT OFFENSIVE, that's the reason the press is blasting it everywhere, so the deluded and scared can argue with the rational and sensible.
My wife was once like you Bella, than this year she decided to come and shoot a handgun at our local club..........Now she is like 'what is all the hubba baloo about?'
She was genuinely scared of them before shooting one, now she could care less and thinks the hype about guns is ridiculous.
And remember, crooks don't use registered guns, they use black market sourced weapons. And before you carry the argument that the more legal guns the more theft and black market weapons available, I call bull shit. I can source any weapon I want including machine guns and heavy weapons that have never been sold legally in this country EVER. It just so happens I know people who deal with this sort of stuff and can get literally anything I want, just depends what i would want to spend. Needless to say I wouldn't go there, but like I said, I could if I wanted and so could anyone with cash for that matter. It's similar to drugs, never sold legally but can be sourced at just about any party or night club.
