Pinkwashing Turns on Itself with Breast Cancer Awareness Gun
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October was Breast Cancer Awareness month, and the group Breast Cancer Action seized on the opportunity to promote its Think Before you Pink campaign to raise awareness of how companies are increasingly exploiting breast cancer as a marketing device to sell products -- some of which are actually harmful to women's health. Pink ribbon campaigns are offering up some bizarre, albeit benign products like a breast cancer awareness toaster and a breast cancer awareness floating Beer Pong table. But the most bizarre item yet to have a pink ribbon slapped on it must be Smith & Wesson's Pink Breast Cancer Awareness 9 mm Pistol, promoted by a woman named Julie Goloski, Smith and Wesson's Consumer Program Manager and a sharpshooter herself. Goloski is promoting S&W's breast cancer awareness pistol on her Facebook page, saying "October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Breast Cancer Awareness M&P’s are shipping to dealers. I am thrilled to have my name associated with such a worthy cause and one of my favorite firearms." According to a 2008 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, firearms are the second most common cause of violent deaths of women, accounting for 29.2% of all violent deaths among females in the U.S. in 2008.
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"High velocity lead therapy?"
...Just one more indicator that people intend to use guns to kill.
Anne Landman
So you are for a women being raped aswell
Wow you are some progressive. You are not only against an American company donating to help save women from breast cancer, you are also against a women defending herself from being raped.
pinkwashing
I believe guns are important for hunting game we eat, but guns are not to be used to promote health and cancer prevention. We can see past the facade of pink ribbons and realize pink guns do not prevent cancer or domestic violence. Steve the shrink
I dunno about that, steve
I've got an aunt who's firearm very much did prevent domestic abuse.
Because she shot her boyfriend dead when he came at her with a knife.
Ann, the idea that Martial Arts is a viable means of self defense is laughable. When the FBI compiled statistics on how likely one was to avoid injury when victimized in a violent crime, physically resisting without a weapon was the single least effective means. People who fought back unarmed were more likely to be killed or injured than people who fought back with a knife, blunt object, people who surrendered and didn't resist, people who used pepper sprays or stun guns, or people who displayed a firearm (whether they used it or not).
The firearm is the only method of self defense that is safer than just letting the attacker victimize you.
Besides, speaking as a 200 lb male who has martial arts experience, a novice my size will defeat a 130 lb expert almost every time. The weight and power disparity is not a surmountable disadvantage.
Nevermind the fact that so
Nevermind the fact that so much money raised for "breast cancer awareness" is actually contributed towards research and/or education, you're concerned because a very marketable TOOL is being used to raise funds, and because you perceive the only use of this TOOL to be for murder, you don't think it should be help contribute funding to something you seem to view as an admirable cause? Lady, you need to get your priorities straight. Here's an idea for you though. If you don't want to own this gun (or any other gun for that matter), DON'T BUY ONE! Just leave everybody else alone to make up their own minds about it.
Just so you know, Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns have. So has breast cancer.
Firearms
So, firearms, according to your article, are the SECOND most common cause of violent deaths of American women. Want to share with us what is the FIRST? I am betting it is automobiles. I am also betting that automobiles cause at least 20 times as many violent deaths of women each year as firearms or any other device. So, if Chrysler promotes Breast Cancer Awareness or gives a donation to something like the Susan Komen Fund, you would be ranting about automobiles? I will bet you would not. My view is that neither guns nor automobiles cause any deaths of anyone each year. It is the MISUSE of these tools that causes bad things to happen. You are anti-gun. Need to check your hem, BECAUSE YOUR PREJUDICE IS SHOWING!! Also, you might want to check the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
It's a basic human right.
http://www.a-human-right.com/
Owning a firearm is part of the basic human right to self defense. It is no more good or evil than a hammer. (And they make nice tool sets with pink handles, too.)
Gun Control
Gun Control: The belief that a woman who is raped and murdered by her attacker is morally superior to a woman explaining to a police officer why she shot her attacker.
Stop feeding the troll
Ann L is simply incapable of rational thought. Her obvious emotional bias is something she will never ever consider changing, and she is one of that crowd who wants to dictate to others. Unfortunately, people like Ann lack the cognitive skills and unbiased logic required to truly discuss such issues with intelligence. Hers is a classic example of the phrase "cut off your nose to spite your face".
Here is a message for Ann. My wifes life was saved by a handgun - period. So, your "anecdotal" examples may mean nothing to you. To me, they mean the continued presence of my partner of 3 decades.
A true believer
Give Anne credit here.
She's willing to sacrifice the health and welfare of every woman in America so she can be true to her morally superior vision. Way to go, kid.
I see Karma paying her a visit in the future.