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Originally posted by jaguar
You're avoiding the point.
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Not at all. I don't want a pink gun, and I don't want a fluffy one. The idea that they would be required to be that way by law is silly.
(Almost as silly as "all computers should be required by law to be inhenertly disabled in hardware from doing anything Hollywood hasn't approved."...I wish that one was as unlikely as it is silly.)
But given your hypothetical (yuk), I don't think there would be significantly fewer armed citizens. There might very well be fewer firearms collectors, just because "pink and fluffy" is a pretty grotesque set of attributes for anything but ladies' formal wear.
And even there it could be overdone; if *all* ladies' formal wear was by law pink and fluffy, even ladies' formal wear wouldn't be as popular. Despite having spent a lot of money and endured a lot of pain to get my body to conform to a female mind, I really don't want to live in Barbie World, if it's OK with you.
I can understand completely that many of Oleg's photos are disturbing to hoplophobes. They deliberately create cognitive dissonance in an attempt to get people to think about why their emotional reactions are what they are.
But sadly, it doesn't always work, and the result is people who just feel "disturbed". So for someone who's looking to enflame hoplophobia, those pictures used in the "right" way probably are a big timesaver.
Why shouldn't Grandma have a shotgun? Are we afraid she's going to hold up a liquor store? Maybe she might use it to defend herself and her home, now *that* would be horrible, wouldn't it?