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Related: About this forumOopsie: "Brady Campaign's ad draws ire of U.S. anti-gun violence activists"
Saw this mentioned at the other group, and felt it was too good not to post:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guncontrol-idUSKCN0XQ29O
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said on Friday it has sharply cut back an online ad that had used the names and faces of mass shooters and urged the news media not to identify them after the group drew criticism from other gun control activists...
...The prominent use of the names and images of Adam Lanza, who shot dead 20 children and six educators at a Newtown elementary school, and James Holmes, who fatally shot 12 people at an Aurora movie theater, in the two-minute online spot angered fellow anti-gun-violence campaigners.
The Brady Campaign's ad prompted a petition (chn.ge/1SCfovp) on activist website Change.org calling for the ad to be taken down. Some 93 people had signed that petition as of midday Friday.
"It was very hurtful to many gun violence victims and survivors," said Anita Busch, a Los Angeles-based entertainment journalist whose cousin was slain in the Aurora massacre and who said she posted the petition. "For the Brady Campaign to not get it is just shocking, honestly."
...The prominent use of the names and images of Adam Lanza, who shot dead 20 children and six educators at a Newtown elementary school, and James Holmes, who fatally shot 12 people at an Aurora movie theater, in the two-minute online spot angered fellow anti-gun-violence campaigners.
The Brady Campaign's ad prompted a petition (chn.ge/1SCfovp) on activist website Change.org calling for the ad to be taken down. Some 93 people had signed that petition as of midday Friday.
"It was very hurtful to many gun violence victims and survivors," said Anita Busch, a Los Angeles-based entertainment journalist whose cousin was slain in the Aurora massacre and who said she posted the petition. "For the Brady Campaign to not get it is just shocking, honestly."
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Oopsie: "Brady Campaign's ad draws ire of U.S. anti-gun violence activists" (Original Post)
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2016
OP
"(T)rying to stop needless killing" by giving spree killers the attention they crave...
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2016
#2
Some controllers acknowledge there are CelebroPunks out there that crave attention.
Eleanors38
May 2016
#3
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)1. Oopsie...so making fun of patriots trying to stop needless killing?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)2. "(T)rying to stop needless killing" by giving spree killers the attention they crave...
...and hurting their victim's survivors?
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)4. Heard ol' orange-top crapped hiz pants when arrested.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)3. Some controllers acknowledge there are CelebroPunks out there that crave attention.
No sense giving them any. I, for one, have a list of descriptors for these punks, none of which includes their names, and all of which are ungraceful and condemnatory.
