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September 8th, 2010, 07:53 AM #1
San Francisco reconsidering gun ban in transit ads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The image of a woman brandishing a gun is gracing more than a dozen San Francisco bus stop shelters after the city suspended a policy banning firearms in advertisements on public transportation.
The advertisement, which gun-rights advocates created to promote a conference near the city later this month, was allowed to run after city transportation officials decided they might face a legal challenge on Second Amendment grounds for refusing it.
The Municipal Transportation Agency is "taking a step back" to review its policy in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that said Second Amendment gun protections apply on a state and local level, spokesman Paul Rose said.
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September 8th, 2010, 09:03 PM #2
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The advertisement, which gun-rights advocates created to promote a conference near the city later this month, was allowed to run after city transportation officials decided they might face a legal challenge on Second Amendment grounds for refusing it.
Then again, even the "pro-gun" side on this seems to be trying to equate a picture of a gun as being equivalent to an actual gun.
"It sort of stuck in my throat a bit," said Gottlieb, whose group previously challenged a handgun ban in San Francisco. "A picture of a firearm, surely, I believe, is protected as much as the firearm is."Last edited by eXceLon; September 8th, 2010 at 09:06 PM.
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September 8th, 2010, 09:13 PM #3
Re: San Francisco reconsidering gun ban in transit ads
Even if the .gov could do so in a completely impartial way(impossible). I don't think the .gov should be entertaining advertising at all.
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September 14th, 2010, 10:24 PM #4
Re: San Francisco reconsidering gun ban in transit ads
The posters drew some negative reaction from passers-by Monday morning.
"I'm not a huge fan of these posters," said Courtney Pyle, 25, a speech pathologist who says she is not a proponent of gun rights. "They don't make me feel great."LOL, I am a woman...
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Re: San Francisco reconsidering gun ban in transit ads
So when is CA going to break away into the Pacific Ocean? This country could do without the Republic of California, esp San Fran.
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Re: San Francisco reconsidering gun ban in transit ads
The posters drew some negative reaction from passers-by Monday morning.
"I'm not a huge fan of these posters," said Courtney Pyle, 25, a speech pathologist who says she is not a proponent of gun rights. "They don't make me feel great."
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September 20th, 2010, 10:31 AM #8
Re: San Francisco reconsidering gun ban in transit ads
"I'm not a huge fan of these posters," said Courtney Pyle, 25, a speech pathologist who says she is not a proponent of gun rights. "They don't make me feel great."
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September 20th, 2010, 11:58 AM #9
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They don't make her feel great because she may have to come to terms with her view on guns and possibly her entire worldview might be entirely wrong. Most of the people of that type of mindset aren't aware that there are plenty of people as smart or smarter than they are that live outside their bubble.
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"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." -- Ted Nugent
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