Gun porn: Magazines found in easy access to kids

[SecularMotion]

ATLANTA (CBS46) -The next time you are in a grocery or convenience store, check out the magazine aisle. As CBS46 investigative reporter Karyn Greer found out, gun porn appears to be more popular than travel and cooking magazines and in plain sight of impressionable children.

Sexually explicit and tabloid magazines are kept on the top shelves of stores to keep them out of sight of precious young children, but gun magazines are in plain sight and easy reach for anyone to grab and take a peek.

"It just proliferates the spread of guns and glamourizes guns and everything that goes along with it," said Glenn Sutton.

Gun porn is described as photos of guns that display them in the same carefully posed and lighted manner as the models in traditional pornography. The magazines include glossy covers with sexy young women armed and ready to shoot.

http://www.cbs46.com/story/30428851/gun-porn-magazines-found-in-easy-access-to-kids

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. A media outlet actually wrote that?

Gun porn is described as photos of guns that display them in the same carefully posed and lighted manner as the models in traditional pornography.

Ummmm -- not to draw too fine a point but that's literally every staged photo to ever appear in any publication ever in the history of visual media.

Ever see a cooking magazine? Is this now food porn? Is my subscription to Mother Earth News peddling organic farming porn? (I'd ask about woodworking magazines and porn but I can already hear the giggling and snickering.)

It's creepy that everything controllers -- as controllers -- fixate on reduces to a sexual level. People who are sex obsessed and demand control of their targets are deeply disturbed and dangerous individuals.

"Why are you looking at him? You were talking to him weren't you? You're fucking him, aren't you? I need to know where you are, who you're seeing and what you're talking about. If you don't answer your phone when I call there's going to be trouble. I don't want you hanging out with them anymore...

"I love you," said every stalker, always.

[Eleanors38]

44. Latest "Garden & Gun" has Reese Witherspoon on the cover...

And she is part of the latest Hollywood offensive for gun control!

But posing and "lighted manner" has been around since Plato.

[ileus]

2. Now they target the 1st...and haven't even extinguished the Second Amendment yet.

Is there any question to the regressive authoritarians real motives concerning the 2A?

[branford]

4. "Gun porn," really?

I'm curious why we don't see any articles and news stories complaining about the pervasive (and often unrealistic and without consequence) firearm violence in so many of our popular movies, television shows, and even music, particularly all the easily accessible magazines and other media that media glorify, publicize and promote such firearm violence, including clearly visible firearms. The dozens of mainstream entertainment and music magazines are far closer to anything that could ever be categorized as "gun porn" than any of the various, and far less numerous, hunting, sport, collectible or defense magazines on display.

Any pretense of "gun safety" by the usual gun control suspects has now been rendered totally and completely moot.

As always, the quest has been the elimination of purported "gun culture" (i.e., mostly rural and exurban culture and history, including hunting and firearm sport, focused on the South and Midwest), and the push-back will be unrelenting and politically disastrous for Democrats outside of some urban enclaves.

It's so very sad to see people who claim to be liberal and progressive acting like elitist, tyrannical, and repressive Puritans.

[ileus]

5. Remember these are the folks that want cops to shoot first and citizens to attack gun owners.

put nothing past these violent gun ban extremist.....they don't mind cops shooting folks or random attacks of innocent people, if they attack or shoot the "right" types.


Make no mistake it's not about the Kids reading or seeing gun magazines, it's about the magazines existing in the first place.

These people will stop at nothing to control your thoughts and actions...

[gejohnston]

19. watching Mary Tyler Moore reruns inspired her to be

a journalist. Unfortunately, she chose Ted Baxter as her role model.

[Duckhunter935]

24. A Classic

[JonathanRackham]

6. Beauty Magazines

Funny I have a feminist friend and daughter who find the "Beauty Magazines" sexist and pay no attention to the gun rags. My son is a gamer and grabs the usual IT porn mag. I'm a fly fisherman, PETA thinks I'm a murderer and is offended by the fishing porn and Field & Stream. I also look at the cooking porn and ohhhhh that Popular Mechanics which has an occasional gun ad.

Offense is in the eye of the beholder. "Porn" is a specific word hijacked. It's original application was to describe the objeftification and exploitation of women in a sexual manner using media. Later it was extended to males in the same context. The use of the word porn in a bastard manner is offensive to those who have been exploited.

[Eleanors38]

45. Which is why I object to the expression "ammosexual."

I can put up with "gun humper," "need to compensate," and endless talk of penis, but "ammosexual" must of necessity borrow its pejorative power by swapping out the first two letters of a reference to people discriminated against in our society; otherwise, it's smear factor would be of no greater value than the usual psycho-babble-related crap that clogs the culture wars.

[Duckhunter935]

7. I love the commets, lol

Really? That's news? Kinda reaching are we?

"Gun porn is described as photos of guns that display them in the same carefully posed and lighted manner as the models in traditional pornography."
Oh, really. Since when is professional product photography "the same carefully posed and lighted manner as the models in traditional pornography"?
Is this an Onion piece? Is this a joke? Please tell me it's an early release of a 2016 April's Fool piece.
You go on to quote "It just proliferates the spread of guns and glamourizes guns and everything that goes along with it," as if that is a bad thing.
CBS, no wonder the general public keeps turning their back to you.

So, since cars are involved in more deaths than guns, are you going to go on a crusade against "Car & Driver"? What about all those other "Car porn" magazines?
Or do you only care if people are killed by a bullet?
You're all hypocrites. And ignorant to boot.
Gun magazines are simply showcasing well engineered machines.

[friendly_iconoclast]

20. The best one, IMO: "And travel magazines make children run away..."

[Duckhunter935]

21. Love that one

[DonP]

8. File this one under; "Desperate Flailing by Gun Control Supporters"

[Waldorf]

9. I have the gun porn delivered in the mail. Saves me quite a bit of money.

Wonder if this writer is also complaining about the glossy covers with sexy young women laying on the hoods of hot rod car magazines?

[Fred Sanders]

51. Is it wrapped in plain brown paper? As the gun-worshipping porn that it is?

[DonP]

52. Nah, it's wrapped the same way your copy of "Gun Control Monthy".

[GGJohn]

10. Getting desperate?

Any comment SecMo? Oh, wait........................................

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. nice to know you care

[Duckhunter935]

15. sounds like someone is tracking and alerting

I hope it is not you that would stalk another member.

[Eleanors38]

46. Just as we were getting into sexual stereotypes, a Maurice Chevalier refrain is heard!

[ileus]

16. Secmo is right...they love to alert on folks around here.

When you don't have an argument, alert. Used to be a tactic of that goofy shares poster back in the day.

[Duckhunter935]

23. Looks like it backfired

[ileus]

27. That happened to Shares a lot also...

[DonP]

29. Under several identities - but he still got canned each time

[GGJohn]

30. Wow!!!!!

His post was hidden? Will wonders never cease?
The funny thing is, I didn't alert on it, I just got in.

[Duckhunter935]

32. I did not either

Wonders never cease to amaze me 👍

[ileus]

34. 13000 posts....zero alerts, I'm proud of not being thin skinned.

[Duckhunter935]

35. Good for you!!!

[Eleanors38]

47. Like a lunar eclipse: Everybody's seen one, but few have seen many.

[Brickbat]

12. Staged photography in a magazine? What did they think a magazine was?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

14. Thank you Justice Potter Stewart

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."

[krispos42]

17. Culture war.

Yawn.

[gejohnston]

18. going undercover in a Publix?

what is this, Ted Baxter meets Barney Fife? The editor who signed off on this, was it Alfred E. Neuman?

[friendly_iconoclast]

22. I *had* to check that one- and yep, they actually used that howler...

[Eleanors38]

48. That's Pubelix to you, sir.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

25. Are you saying that...

...because lots of pro-control folks are sheep (and accept whatever a PR pusher, media hack or politician say) that those folks believe children will see a picture of a gun and... and what? Pick up a stick or a toy and play cops and robbers?

I have read a few of your OPs with interest but this isn't your best paste.

[Eleanors38]

49. Well, now is that "paste" or "pasties." It makes all the difference.

[virginia mountainman]

26. ROFLMAO!!! That is Hilarious!!!

Wonder why they have all those gun magazines?? Because they SELL!!! And evidently sell much better than other subjects! Yes, we know, gun rights are in ascendance! *GASP* They had to go undercover in a grocery store! ROFLMAO, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This article puts on wide open public display once again, how out of touch gun control advocates and their sycophants in the media really are. Those magazines would NOT be their, if they were not selling.

Hey Bloomberg, why don't you fund a "Gun Ban Monthly" and see how well it sells to the public in comparison!!!!!

[beevul]

31. "Gun Ban Monthly"

[Duckhunter935]

33. I am sure it will sell out

[beevul]

41. Actually, "Gun ban monthly" is likely at the heart of this matter.

Because there is no such thing as 'gun ban monthly', and no such thing as 'gun ban monthly' would ever swim rather than sink in terms of surviving as a publication, certain individuals feel the need to try to even the playing field by attacking what others have and that they themselves can not have:

Legitimacy and credibility.

[DonP]

42. Same goes for "Gun Control" websites

The few that are even out there are all one way communications.

No discussion allowed.

You'd think with "90% of the people supporting gun control" and "the tide having turned" there would at least be a few sites out there for the gun control fans and maybe an E-Zine or two.

[beevul]

43. Precisely. N/T

[Travis_0004]

28. Its ok

All the gun pictures in magazine are not carefully staged or lit.

Sometimes they leave the lights off when taking the photo, but the description tells me what it should be

[benEzra]

36. That is hilarious. If Bloomberg paid for that "story", he got ripped off.

[benEzra]

37. BTW, here are the magazines they are talking about:

Last edited Sun Nov 8, 2015, 08:39 AM - Edit history (2)

http://www.gunsandammo.com/
http://sportsafield.com/
http://www.shootingtimes.com/
http://www.fieldandstream.com/
http://americanhandgunner.com/
http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/publications/personal-home-defense/

Funny thing is, if you go to those links and look at the covers, you won't find a single scantily clad model, female or male. The one image the article tried to use to support their "porn" meme was a professional-looking woman in business attire aiming a gun while calling 9-1-1 (on the cover of a magazine that caters heavily to female gun owners), and the Duck Dynasty guys. Yes, the Duck Dynasty guys. If that is "porn" to you, then you need to get out more.



What's even more hilarious is that this TV station serves central fricking Georgia, where half or more of households likely own guns, meaning that half of this station's target market is pointing at their TV and howling with laughter, and the other half is scratching their heads and saying "they call that porn?"

Edited to add: The magazine in the second row, left, has a guy in a T-shirt on the cover. Second row, right, has a rifle with a flashlight on the cover. "Porn", indeed.

[Kang Colby]

38. Excellent analysis.

Yet another classic by looney tune gun controllers.

[Eleanors38]

50. Well, my Field & Stream has a big-assed buck on the cover. Should seen the lighting.

[ileus]

39. Do people really get worked up into a lather over silly stuff like that? How small minded...

can one get?

Hoplophobia stoops to new lows...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

40. A culture war looks for any inane topic to latch onto...

...and then tries to make it an issue.

Guns.
Semi-auto guns.
Semi-auto guns with hi-cap mags.
Assault weapons (aka evil black Semi-auto guns with hi-cap mags).
Pictures of guns.
Pictures of Semi-auto guns.
...



Greetings gun-control; is that a genuine look of terror or have you just found a new angle on irrelevance?

[ileus]

53. So now they want to ban assault magazines...

of the paper kind

[Straw Man]

54. Has no one mentioned the fact ...

... that you can see more glorification of guns and gun violence in a single evening's television programming than you can in a month's worth of all the gun magazines put together?

Gun porn? Puh-leeze ... ABC, CBS, and NBC are the largest purveyors thereof in the world.