Georgia govenor candidate's gun ad draws fire

[Ilsa]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brian-kemp-georgia-gun-ad-backfires_us_5ae79bc4e4b02baed1bd61c6

Negative comments have rained down on a pro-gun political ad by controversial Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp in which the Republican points a shotgun at a young man supposedly interested in dating one of Kemp’s daughters as the teen professes a “healthy appreciation” for the Second Amendment.

Viewers are demanding that an Atlanta television station stop running it. “We are gun owners and we are outraged,” one told Atlanta NBC affiliate 11 Alive. Kemp is currently Georgia’s secretary of state.

“I’m a conservative businessman with a four-point plan to put hardworking Georgians first,” Kemp said in a tweet Friday when he unveiled the ad. ”I’m also the proud father of three teenage girls. Here’s the thing: If you want to date one of my daughters, you better have respect for women and a healthy appreciation for the Second Amendment.” 

While his shotgun is “broken” open and unable to fire as the ad starts, he closes it up at the end and aims it at the boy, which viewers found especially disturbing, particularly in the wake of school shooting deaths. Other weapons lean against the wall in Kemp’s “study” in the ad.

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There are guns all over the room in the ad. Furthermore, he wants a gun sales tax holiday. Rest of the article is pretty good.

[Ohiogal]

1. This is absolutely appalling and very frightening.

Doesn't say much for this asshole's judgement. Who would vote for a psychopath like this?

[Ilsa]

3. He's current Ga Sec of State, I think. nt

[Initech]

2. Something tells me that I would *NOT* want to date one of his daughters.

He seems like the "Dads Against Daughters Dating" type.

[dawg]

4. I'm a Georgia gun-owner.

You should *never* point a gun - no matter how unloaded you *know* it is - at anyone that you don't intend to kill. Playing around with guns isn't funny. It's over-the-top irresponsible.

[Ilsa]

5. It's a horrible example to set.

Can't stand this guy. He wants a sales tax free weekend for gun purchases. Geez. And having guns in our society costs us so much.

[dawg]

6. What's his justification for the sales tax free weekend?

Back to school?

[Ilsa]

9. I haven't heard one! It's special treatment. nt

[gratuitous]

8. It IS irresponsible

But for some reason, there's no mechanism for confiscating this irresponsible person's firearms. Somebody's just going to have to die first.

[dawg]

7. And this is the guy who was responsible ...

for making sure that my vote actually counted.