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Gun Control & RKBA

krispos42

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3. Gun advertising is almost exclusivly done in gun magazines and gun stores

Reply to BrightKnight (Original post)

Tue May 31, 2022, 12:32 PM

May 2022

It's not like Smith & Wesson it advertising during the Super Bowl.

Guns are far less deadly per capita then tobacco. Even including homicides and suicides, there are about 30,000 deaths a year out of population of 330 million Tobacco is maybe 12 times the body count and only about a 80(?) million people use tobacco.

Rough estimates.

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Would gun marketing control be more effective than gun control? [View all] BrightKnight May 2022 OP

Irresponsible marketing and sales are one of the ways... discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2022 #1

Repealing the PLCAA would do it . . . AndyS May 2022 #2

Gun advertising is almost exclusivly done in gun magazines and gun stores krispos42 May 2022 #3

More doctors smoke Camels. BrightKnight May 2022 #4

I think the hysteria about them sells them far more than marketing does krispos42 Jun 2022 #9

re: hysteria discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2022 #10

Oh, yeah... because a .50 BMG sniper rifle is exactly the same as a... krispos42 Jun 2022 #11

I was going to post that too melm00se Jun 2022 #5

I've seen ads on the Sportsman's Channel, yagotme Jun 2022 #6

the Sportsman Channel melm00se Jun 2022 #7

The question was, "Have you seen an electronic ad on TV." yagotme Jun 2022 #8