If God Didn't Intend For Us To Have AR-15s, Why Did He Make Them So Freakin' AWESOME??
If you were a REAL Christian, you'd have a Daniel Defense AR-15
One of the most indefensible ways gun culture has corrupted America is the degree to which it’s become associated with religion and how the gun industry markets to children.
And then we wonder how and why an 18-year-old can buy two AR-15s and use one in a mass murder in a Texas elementary school?
The Georgia gun company that manufactures the AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle used in the horrific attack at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, posted a disturbing Twitter ad featuring a young boy holding a similar type of weapon.
The ad by the Daniel Defense gun company, one of the largest private gun-makers in America, featured a child holding a huge scoped firearm in his lap with an ammunition clip in front of him. An adult’s hand with a finger pointing at the boy appeared in the foreground.
“Train up a child in the way he should go.” Yep, nothing like an image of an AR-15 and a Bible verse to demonstrate the appropriateness of a child handling a weapon of war, eh?
How this is considered appropriate under any circumstance is difficult to understand. It’s disgusting, especially because eight days after Daniels Defense posted the ad on Twitter, a shooter carrying one of the company’s AR-15s walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. He used that weapon to kill 19 students and two teachers.
Daniel Defense quickly blocked the public from its Twitter account after the mass shooting on Tuesday, and the ad was reportedly pulled. It can still be seen on screenshots and archives captured by The Wayback Machine.
The tweet was posted the day the mass shooter in Uvalde turned 18. Within days, he legally purchased the Daniel Defense DDM4 V7, which is similar to the weapon featured in the advertisement. The company touts it as the “perfect rifle for everybody.” Ramos’ second purchase was reportedly a Smith & Wesson M&P 15, but he only brought the DDM4 into the school, according to police.
Though particularly appalling, the ad is only the latest example of the company’s incendiary gun ads often linked to the Bible or religion.
“This is how [company founder Marty Daniel] has grown his business: By being on the edge and wrapping this holy roller thing around it,” Ryan Busse, a former firearms executive and now senior adviser for the gun violence prevention group Giffords, told NBC News.
Daniel Defense’s social media presence quickly went dark after the massacre in Uvalde, and the company pulled out of the NRA convention in Houston with the comment:
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic events in Texas this week. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and community devastated by this evil act.”
“Thoughts and prayers.” There are those useless, insulting words again- but what else is Daniels Defense going to do? They probably want to lay low because they know that they’ll almost certainly (and deservedly) be the target of numerous lawsuits.
Somehow I doubt the “holy roller thing” will be of much help to Marty Daniels in terms of a legal defense. It won’t cause them much concern in the end; Congress has made it incredibly burdensome to sue gun manufacturers.
Sadly, the massacre in Uvalde will probably be very good for Daniel Defense’s bottom line. Gun lovers flock to gun stores after mass shootings, fearing that laws will change and they’ll no longer be able to buy certain types of weapons or ammunition.
It’s what happens after mass shootings. Yeah, Proudly Closed-minded Gun Control Foes only care about one thing- guns.
Nothing like a bunch of dead children to spur sales, eh?
Daniels Defense was also part of the worst mass shooting in American history. Four of their semi-automatic rifles were found in the hotel room of the gunman who shot and killed 60 people in Las Vegas. Naturally, the company wasn’t thrilled with this news becoming public, but, as happens after every mass shooting, Daniels Defense experienced a sharp sales bump.
Our business is mass murder, and business is very, very GOOD.
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Sure, they’ll send out their “thoughts and prayers” and act appropriately mournful, but in the end, they’ll lay low and do nothing because when kids (or other civilians) die in large numbers, sales increase and profits rise. It becomes a VERY good time to be in the gun business.
So dozens of innocent men, women, and children are senselessly slaughtered. The gun industry can be intensely competitive, so if it takes bloodshed for people to understand how effective a company’s product is, so be it. Nothing like a little real-life product testing, eh?
“By being on the edge and wrapping this holy roller thing around it.”
Ah, yes; what semi-automatic weapon of war would Jesus fire?
I’m guessing He’s a BIG fan of Daniels Defense’s products.
I was in the army and trained on the M16. To this day, I'm pretty sure I could field strip any make or model of the AR15 &/or M4. And it's been over 45 years since the last time I had to do so.
Strangely enough, I never confused my weapon with my penis. Apparently there's something wrong with me. Send me your farts and stares ... thoughts and prayers.