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Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com)
New submitter bababoris writes: It appears that Snapchat's Rob Saliterman attempted to "encourage" Everytown for Gun Safety to advertise with Snapchat or risk having National Rifle Association (NRA) ads run during their Live Story promoting gun safety. The Next Web reports: "Everytown for Gun Safety is an advocacy group that focuses on gun safety and violence issues. According to Mic, it reached out to Snapchat in 2016 to inquire about an advertising campaign for its #WearOrange event, held on National Gun Violence Awareness Day. A Snapchat representative, Rob Saliterman, responded to Everytown with a quote of $150,000. This would allow Snapchat users to engage with the event using custom filters and lenses created specifically for it. Realizing that another department within Snapchat had undercut him, he fired off an email suggesting that Everytown pay up, lest National Rifle Association (NRA) adverts appear on their videos."
What if we aren't haters and don't hate the NRA? What if we don't have a phobia of guns? Why is this "stuff that matters"?
I don't have a "gun phobia", I own 3 - a rifle, a shotgun (which I use for hunting), and a handgun (which I use for fun -- i.e. target practice).
But I do think guns are way too easy to obtain (both legally and illegally), and gun owners should hold more responsibility for securing their weapons so they aren't stolen and resold on the black market. My gun safe cost as much as both of the long guns that are locked inside it.
Companies that sell ads sell ads. BFD.
It's not the ad sale that's the story, it's the extortion.
Arming yourself is the best way to have a fighting chance against anyone who's trying to kill you
"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
"And what difference does that make?"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
If you think Chicago is bad, in California we have politicians who are anti-gun because legal gun sales conflict with their illegal gun-running business.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Just google "everytown false". Slashdot is not getting more right wing, it is getting more liberal in the classical sense. It's your relative point of view that has changed.
LOL, Try not to project so much. Statistically, conservative right wingers (classical centrists who are for limited government and as much personal freedom as is reasonable) are the working middle class.
The liberal progressive Democrats are 25X times more likely to be unemployed (or maybe that's unemployable) and 7X more likely to be a criminal.
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
(If you can get past the spin at politifact, you can find the actual statistics there on criminals registering to vote.)
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
Happens quite a lot, even thou you don't want to believe it does:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-uber-driver-shoots-gunman-met-0420-20150419-story.html
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Man-Shot-in-the-Chest-Inside-West-Philly-Barbershop-297176271.html
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/26/official-suspect-in-deadly-hospital-shooting-had-lengthy-history-gun-arrests/
http://citizensvoice.com/news/police-plymouth-homicide-suspect-shot-by-patron-1.1370815
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/17251517/churchgoers-subdue-gunman-at-spartanburg-church
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2054129059072688443
http://www.lvrj.com/news/19257519.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/us/12brfs-GUNMANKILLED_BRF.html?fta=y&pagewanted=print&_r=0
http://articles.philly.com/1998-04-26/news/25765866_1_andrew-wurst-john-gillette-science-teacher
And that is what I could find in a 2-sec google search.
The liberal progressive Democrats are 25X times more likely to be unemployed (or maybe that's unemployable) and 7X more likely to be a criminal.
So why is it that the red states are the ones that consume the lion's share of the social services, even though California has the highest population and is often considered to have the most illegal immigrants living within its borders?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Happens quite a lot, even thou you don't want to believe it does:
And then there's the fact that brandishing is illegal, so all the times when someone shows someone that they have a gun and stop a crime without even having to point it at the aggressor go unreported. As well, of course, as the times when they do aim, but don't shoot.
"Brandishing" is illegal. This is what brandishing is: "display, indication or threat of use of a weapon for unlawful intimidation purposes"
Pulling a firearm out because two thugs flanked your car while you try to pump gas is not brandishing, and it's not illegal. Removing a pistol from a concealment holster and holding it pointed at the ground is legit self defense in the face of that kind of threat.
There are unreported defensive uses of firearms, quite a few actually if you believe the NRA, generally it's because well there wasn't much of an incident and what is there to say? The thugs will almost never report it, as the police are likely to know what they are and what they were up to or they have warrants already.
I know this stuff is outside your idiom, but would it really be such a burden to actually learn a few of the utmost basics on the topic before shooting your mouth off? It seems like that's the only thing you do here, shoot your mouth off.