Insinuating that someone may be immature based on what they may choose to wear to me is like the anti gun people saying we are crazy for wanting to own firearms.
Really? You don't make any judgements of others based on what they choose to wear and/or how they present themself? That's either very noble of you, or naieve. Or perhaps both.
Some of those shirts are not too over-the-top, but anything that applauds killing someone else, or suggests violence even in cartoonish ways (like suggesting using a Mini-gun to slaughter tresspassers) gives folks the (mistaken? I don't know.) impression that the wearer entertains such bloodlust fantasies.
Seriously... wearing a shirt which suggests that a .50 BMG rifle will stop a holy war against our society is just mindless, knee-jerk, masturbatory jingoism. Doesn't do a d@mned thing to help solve the world's problems, doesn't even suggest reasonable action towards a specific goal, and marks the wearer as a fringy violence-fetishist.
Sorry if I offended anyone with the link or it's contents because none was intended.
Offended? Heck no. I'm hard to offend. But I sure wish our "gunnie" pals would think through the image they send the world. You want to shoot, great. You want to open carry a gun, FINE! You want to show your support for our men and women in uniform -- AWESOME! There are ways to do that with professionalism and responsibility and which DON'T glorify manslaughter (justified or otherwise). There are ways to speak out against government policies that don't bring to other folks' minds the image of you in a clock tower somewhere picking off your neighbors.
[EDIT to add: What if the messages were less subtle, more direct? What if instead of "Guaranteed to stop jihad!" it read, "I would like the chance to kill a person who's religious beliefs are opposed to America?" The room gets a little more quiet. Sure some would still wear it...and some would want a chance to explain how it's more complicated than that and you really have to understand that ... blah, blah, blah.]
Just think about it, and then wear whatever you think sends the kind of message you really want to send to the rest of the world.
-Sam
