Newspapers/mags let you advertise sex but not gun instructions!

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In my quest to try gun instruction as a business venture, I found out that some papers have a policy not to allow any kind of firearms advertisement. I've approached a couple about something as innocuous and community-oriented like teaching gun safety.

On the other hand, these same magazines will allow escorts and masseuses to advertise and they're obviously selling sex. So sex is okay but responsible firearms training is not! :fire:
 
Maybe they feel that an accidental discharge with a firearm is more serious than an AD with a massuse?

There are alot fo newspapers that wont take firearms for sale ads in the want ad section either. left wing newspapers dont mind censorship as long as they are the ones doing the censoring.
 
It makes sense if you think about liberal agendas. Guns are bed. Sex, homosexuality, etc are all good.
 
Mr_dove has pretty well hit it.

Most newspapers are leftist, and the leftist agenda generally holds that sexual activity and expression is an absolute right, and one which supercedes any other. Firearms, however, are an absolute evil, and one which should be eradicated.
 
In a similar vein, I've been in a few B. Dalton bookstores and noticed the types of stuff they carry: not a single gun magazine in the rack, but a long row of magazines like Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, etc. I guess guns are bad, but porn is okay.
 
This thread reminds me of the time I read what was said to be an excerpt from the Communist Manifesto... it was about how a communist regime could slowly take over a non-commie country. They were talking about getting people, expecially younger people, interested in sexual activities (and perversions) and thus getting people's attention on that and it replacing the will to fight for their Freedom/Liberty. The part about those being Leftist newspapers that take ads for escorts and masseuses and not guns... that's part of that.
 
In a similar vein, I've been in a few B. Dalton bookstores and noticed the types of stuff they carry: not a single gun magazine in the rack, but a long row of magazines like Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, etc. I guess guns are bad, but porn is okay.
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I've noticed and commented on this exact same thing. It's sad really.
 
1st Amendment vs. 2nd Amendment. They have chosen a side and do not understand that we are not their enemy. We are their guardian. They think that the ACLU is their guardian.
 
Dragoon44 hit the nail on the head when dealing with the media.

"left wing newspapers dont mind censorship as long as they are the ones doing the censoring."

After reading this I guess I must be greedy I want my Firearms and porn. I agree that sexuality is awfully "important" in this country. People get distracted rather easily I suppose.
But we can't forget about defending all of our rights as people. The right to defend yourself, your family and your property is also a duty and a responsability.


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I often wonder if gun people were left in charge how often it would be the other way around and have guns but no sex. An equally bad outcome to me.
 
The problem is the people who define acts between consenting adults behind closed doors to be just as bad as assault sex. Which is complete, total hypocracy, of course.

Exodus 31:15: Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Okay, time to kill yourselves, everyone!
 
Anyone check out craigslist?:barf: SCOPES (known to them as sniper scopes) aren't allowed but there are are of women offering to trade "services" for rent.
 
I think it is horrible with the amount of sex used to sell everything from toothpaste to hamburgers. I get tired of not even being able to read a book or magazine or even watch TV (and no we don't have cable or satellite) without having to be subjected to that sort of stuff.:fire:
I hate to say it, but I guess old phrase goes: "Sex sells" is true.:banghead:
Maybe if the guns had naked pix on them, or they came with a free porn mag along with the mag for the gun, they would let you put and ad in the papers then?:(
 
Maybe if the guns had naked pix on them, or they came with a free porn mag along with the mag for the gun, they would let you put and ad in the papers then?
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Not particularly appealing to me, but would get guns covered under the sacred 1st Amendment. Maybe even the ACLU could get behind that (at least if you could get a NAMBLA edition AK or something).
 
I think it is horrible with the amount of sex used to sell everything from toothpaste to hamburgers.
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Something else I recalled... Louis L'Amour was talking about how so many critics and readers wondered why he didn't write sex into his novels any more than he did. He said it was simply that he wasn't writing about sex and sex has nothing to do with probably 75% of everything that's ever been written anyway. How does this apply to sex in advertising? For one thing, Mr. L'Amour was probably the most popular western writer of all time if not only the most well known and he didn't achieve that success by writing about sex. The advertisers could take a lesson from him and sell a lot more stuff if they didn't turn us off with semi-pornographic depictions of their merchandise having some effect on interpersonal relationships.
 
Well, I got my gun ad in the LA Weekly, which was a bit of a surprise to me. (Yay! They took my money.) The rep had to check with higher-ups first for my little classified ad. You get the feeling that they're trying to make you feel guilty for advertising instructions for responsible gun safety.

Out of the 200+ pages per issue, mine is the only gun ad to appear in recent memory (and it's only a couple lines in the classifieds). That's out of the thousands of display (picture) ads that appear weekly. OTOH, there are pages and pages of half-naked women who sell escort services, massages "with happy endings", transexual experience services (including oral), oral this-and-that, porn star experience, gay guys to visit your house, etc.

This is a weekly magazine that prides itself in serving the community with hard-hitting social issues and muck-cracking on social and political corruption. It's available for free throughout LA in free pickup racks in front of many restaurants.
 
Oh well, maybe it's just as well. I'm pulling zeros from the LA Weekly anyway. It's not easy doing mass marketing here for gun-related business.

It's funny. As I mentioned in another post, I posted a simple online ad for a female model to pose with guns. $120 for 30 minutes of her time. I got over a hundred emails with photos of girls in less than 2 days. I posted another online ad for a voice to record some messages for my phone and got dozens of replies in a couple hours.
 
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