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Gun Regulation vs. Mascot Regulation

 
 
 
A bit of false equivalence. The NRA trademarked its mascot. So what? Ya think you can take make and sell shirts with university football mascot with authorization? How about Micky Mouse? Sheesh.
 
Yes, who'd have guessed that getting access with dubious intent to a trademarked product that is not for sale is harder than getting something that many people are readily willing to sell.

Certainly not "progressives".
 
What is the breathtaking insight?

The NRA wants it to be be easy to buy guns? *gasp* *shock* *surprise*

Oh, wait a minute, I already knew that.

The NRA doesn't want it to be easy for others to use their trademarked mascot? *surprise* *gasp* *shock*

Oh, wait a minute, why would they?
 
You're looking for a "breathtaking insight"? :laughing-smiley-014 Staaaaahp, dismal!
 
The difference is that mascots kill people, but guns don't.
 
It's not just easy but extremely easy to buy firearms that many consider dangerous and deadly, yet it's not just hard but very hard to buy that particular symbol of safety geared towards firearm safety. It comes across not as a revelation but as a scream of irony. So much was done in attempts to procure the suit (the creation of an LLC, for instance), and there was such ease in attaining guns (lax enforcement of precautions). The irony meter is characterized as being off the scale of reason, so although the ease of one and the difficulty of the other may not be news, the magnitude of the difficulty being contrasted to the ease is perhaps the point of what's being demonstrated.

Anyhow, that's my quick interpretation.
 
fast said:
It's not just easy but extremely easy to buy firearms that many consider dangerous and deadly, yet it's not just hard but very hard to buy that particular symbol of safety geared towards firearm safety. It comes across not as a revelation but as a scream of irony. So much was done in attempts to procure the suit (the creation of an LLC, for instance), and there was such ease in attaining guns (lax enforcement of precautions). The irony meter is characterized as being off the scale of reason, so although the ease of one and the difficulty of the other may not be news, the magnitude of the difficulty being contrasted to the ease is perhaps the point of what's being demonstrated.

Anyhow, that's my quick interpretation.
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That is what's attempted but it fails catastrophically to be ironic except to the sort of moron who lacks general awareness of the fact that we have a system of laws where selling guns is intended to be legal and misappropriating trademarked characters is not.
 
blastula said:
The difference is that mascots kill people, but guns don't.
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This. I've seen Matlock, Walker Texas Ranger and Murder She Wrote. Criminals often tie up mascots in golf course tool sheds and don their costumes to kill and then blame it on the person who was supposed to be in the mascot outfit.

I believe this accounts for 64.32% of murders worldwide.

Historical examples of famous mascot murders:

  • Archimedes - kiled by a Roman Legionnaire dressed as Trojan
  • Julius Caeser - killed by Brutus dressed as Bluto from Popeye
  • Justin - killed by Justinian I dressed as "Chokey" the mascot for the Blues (chariot racing)
  • Richard III - killed by a knight dressed in a Shakespeare outfit
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand - killed by Gavrilo Princip dressed n a black Hamburger Helper mascot hand.
  • John F. Kennedy - killed by Lee Harvey Oswald who initially escaped dressed as Col. Reb from Ol' Miss

Innocent waiter? Or lethal assassin?

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Better to be safe and kill him before he kills YOU!
 
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dismal said:
fast said:
It's not just easy but extremely easy to buy firearms that many consider dangerous and deadly, yet it's not just hard but very hard to buy that particular symbol of safety geared towards firearm safety. It comes across not as a revelation but as a scream of irony. So much was done in attempts to procure the suit (the creation of an LLC, for instance), and there was such ease in attaining guns (lax enforcement of precautions). The irony meter is characterized as being off the scale of reason, so although the ease of one and the difficulty of the other may not be news, the magnitude of the difficulty being contrasted to the ease is perhaps the point of what's being demonstrated.

Anyhow, that's my quick interpretation.
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That is what's attempted but it fails catastrophically to be ironic except to the sort of moron who lacks general awareness of the fact that we have a system of laws where selling guns is intended to be legal and misappropriating trademarked characters is not.
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It only fails to be ironic because people have a terrible understanding of what the word ironic means.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
dismal said:
That is what's attempted but it fails catastrophically to be ironic except to the sort of moron who lacks general awareness of the fact that we have a system of laws where selling guns is intended to be legal and misappropriating trademarked characters is not.
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It only fails to be ironic because people have a terrible understanding of what the word ironic means.
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Ironic not equal point out something that would be obvious to anyone who had access to two or more brain cells.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
dismal said:
Ironic not equal point out something that would be obvious to anyone who had access to two or more brain cells.
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Yet, when I read the post, I think the two brain cell barrier wasn't breached.
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You're the one that thinks this was clever. I'm the one who understands the stupid, obviousness of it. Worse still, you don't seem to grasp the stupid, obviousness of it after it has been pointed out.
 
dismal said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Yet, when I read the post, I think the two brain cell barrier wasn't breached.
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You're the one that thinks this was clever. I'm the one who understands the stupid, obviousness of it. Worse still, you don't seem to grasp the stupid, obviousness of it after it has been pointed out.
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I think that is ironic, even though it isn't.
 
dismal said:
fast said:
It's not just easy but extremely easy to buy firearms that many consider dangerous and deadly, yet it's not just hard but very hard to buy that particular symbol of safety geared towards firearm safety. It comes across not as a revelation but as a scream of irony. So much was done in attempts to procure the suit (the creation of an LLC, for instance), and there was such ease in attaining guns (lax enforcement of precautions). The irony meter is characterized as being off the scale of reason, so although the ease of one and the difficulty of the other may not be news, the magnitude of the difficulty being contrasted to the ease is perhaps the point of what's being demonstrated.

Anyhow, that's my quick interpretation.
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That is what's attempted but it fails catastrophically to be ironic except to the sort of moron who lacks general awareness of the fact that we have a system of laws where selling guns is intended to be legal and misappropriating trademarked characters is not.
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The point of satire is not to poke at the people adhering to the law. It is to question an entire system of laws that make it more difficult to acquire a symbol of safety than an instrument of death.

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Alcoholic Actuary said:
dismal said:
That is what's attempted but it fails catastrophically to be ironic except to the sort of moron who lacks general awareness of the fact that we have a system of laws where selling guns is intended to be legal and misappropriating trademarked characters is not.
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The point of satire is not to poke at the people adhering to the law. It is to question an entire system of laws that make it more difficult to acquire a symbol of safety than an instrument of death.

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Add to that the layer of irony in that it's the same organization that is so persnickety and bureaucratic about a bird costume that is dogmatically, even violently, against applying the same level of care and attention to protecting actual human lives.

Then add to that the layer of irony in someone so addled by dogma and compartmentalized zealotry that he thinks other people are stupid for seeing the irony in this.
 
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