Even Guns.com has issues with this:
Yup. You can stare at it all day and it’s still a little girl in her jammies twirling her dad’s Safety Hammerless; .32 S&W was popular at the time. “Absolutely safe!”
“Papa says it won’t hurt us.” Because an accidental discharge, you see, is impossible. Of course, what’s meant by accidental is that it won’t shoot unless you pull down a trigger, and a little girl isn’t strong enough to do that. Nobody believes that sort of thing now, underestimating kids is like a bullet train to finding peanut butter inside every single electronic device you own because the DVD player looked hungry and so did his friends.
The truth, as distasteful as it may be, is that indeed people have gotten smarter about such things in recent decades. As the Guns.com article put it:
Ultimately this sort of ad today would be inexcusable. And not because of lawyers, but because that’s a girl in her jammies twirling her dad’s Safety Hammerless. (To their credit, the girl is practicing good trigger discipline.)
Now of course, there will be Teabrainers who will resist that, say it's an example of how society has been sissified, and maintain to their young children's dying day that such ads are fine and dandy. Then there's the other 90-plus percent of the population who will see them as idiots, and thus more inclined toward "gun safety" laws as a result of their idiocy. And regardless of any chant of, "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!" they will win. Political reality trumps purists' "principle."
The storal of the morey (Archie Campbell fans will get that) is, be smart and realistic in your critique--that means how you judge--something like this ad. Not everything old like that is good, and to be reactionary in that manner is simply self-defeating of your side. Don't be stupid.
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