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An interesting article from the Washington Post Magazine entitled: The Heavily Armed Millennials of Instagram. The author interview Mat Best of Black Rifle Coffee among others. I think it offers a relatively fair assessment of the influence of main stream social media and popularity of tactical weapons.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/03/04/feature/the-heavily-armed-millennials-of-instagram/
BoringGuy45
03-04-19, 17:51
I just love that there's so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best's wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she's pro-gun as well.
The_War_Wagon
03-04-19, 17:51
And you can tell by that read, that WaPoo hates reporting every bit of that.
Funny, I just read that article from Matt Best's Facebook page Drinkin Bros... lol
hotrodder636
03-04-19, 20:09
Heck of a lot of people these days that run in this....breasts and guns, they sell.
I just love that there's so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best's wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she's pro-gun as well.
Can’t read without WaPo online subscription. :(
jerrysimons
03-04-19, 21:17
And you can tell by that read, that WaPoo hates reporting every bit of that.
I don’t think so, I think their angle is to show a glimpse into the crazy to reaffirm the assumtions of their base readership.
The war on terror has done great things to advance gun culture and rights domestically, socially speaking. The popularity of ergonomic semiauto firearms has skyrocketed because of it. The mellenial tactical community phenominon just a cultural outgrowth of it. My hope is that it segues into principled support for the foundations of liberty and not just yet another supurfeloys identity piece in an online fiction pageant. At least a positive cultural image of guns is a good starting place.
The_War_Wagon
03-04-19, 21:38
I don’t think so, I think their angle is to show a glimpse into the crazy to reaffirm the assumtions of their base readership.
Well, the good news about that is, all five subscribers will agree with it!
Diamondback
03-04-19, 21:40
JMHO, but I'd also credit the Millennial/Xennial/"Gen Y" culture having gone to war in the Sandbox and Rockpile... just like the Boomers and last-hurrah Cold Warriors who went to Desert Storm, they wanted an at-home facsimile of what they had Over There much like how many WWII vets brought back their Garands and M1 Carbines.
I just love that there's so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best's wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she's pro-gun as well.
And I'm seriously jealous. What did we have, Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider who created a sensation when she actually purchased a pair of HK USP Match handguns for her personal collection.
Diamondback
03-05-19, 02:25
And I'm seriously jealous. What did we have, Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider who created a sensation when she actually purchased a pair of HK USP Match handguns for her personal collection.
Well, there WAS Leslie Easterbrook... (Callahan from Police Academy)
:D
Grand58742
03-05-19, 07:07
I just love that there's so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best's wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she's pro-gun as well.
I think we call that "cyber stalking."
Grand58742
03-05-19, 07:13
And you can tell by that read, that WaPoo hates reporting every bit of that.
When you have portions of the article like this:
If this sort of commercial opportunism makes you uncomfortable at a time when the country is suffering from a never-ending gun violence epidemic — 39,773 gun deaths in 2017, the highest number on record in America — you’re probably not alone. Especially when you consider the kind of guns that dominate the tactical community. Best and his followers aren’t interested in collecting hunting rifles or shotguns, Lord no. There’s even a derogatory term for people who still use those things. They’re called Fudds, as in Elmer. What’s in vogue are semiautos. Sleek high-capacity weapons originally designed for military use and now favored by school shooters. The preferred gun of mass murderers — the AR-15 — is also the preferred gun of the sexy millennials of Instagram.
You know it's slanted in a huge way.
BoringGuy45
03-05-19, 07:28
I think we call that "cyber stalking."
Oh, I just follow them for the gun aspect of it. I like to see some of the new firearm releases, and they often have good training videos and new techniques to study. Yes, they're beautiful women who also post bikini pictures, but that's irrelevant.
....Is what I tell my wife. :D
"The preferred gun of mass murderers"
Like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot?
Reporters in the U.S. are an embarrassment...
akchuallay...
bombs are the preferred weapons of mass murderers with planes coming in a close second
I think we call that "cyber stalking."
What you call "stalking", I call loving from a distance, sir
platoonDaddy
03-05-19, 08:04
Armed with pastel handles and pink holsters, women are storming into gun sales
These gals — Glenda Craddock and Amy May — are among those revving up the trend in Hampton Roads. Through shops and gun groups aimed at women consumers, they've helped launch new offerings in the $13 billion industry — purses with built-in gun compartments, brightly-colored gun accessories, specialized clothing, even bras with a place to stash a weapon. Women are taking over shooting competitions and sharing their accomplishments on social media.
Meet the new gun-slingers of the world.
https://pilotonline.com/sports/outdoors/article_e56948ea-3b5c-11e9-b019-d3a05a53fb5f.html
Five_Point_Five_Six
03-05-19, 09:36
LOL at thinking Mat Best's Instagram is edgy. If you do, you haven't spent much time on IG or you don't know where to look.
Grand58742
03-05-19, 12:51
Armed with pastel handles and pink holsters, women are storming into gun sales
https://pilotonline.com/sports/outdoors/article_e56948ea-3b5c-11e9-b019-d3a05a53fb5f.html
Wait! I thought women were supposed to be good little victims that peed on themselves to stop a rapist and waited patiently for the police to arrive?!
Wait! I thought women were supposed to be good little victims that peed on themselves to stop a rapist and waited patiently for the police to arrive?!
My wife would smack you just for saying that, sarcasm and all.
LOL at thinking Mat Best's Instagram is edgy. If you do, you haven't spent much time on IG or you don't know where to look.
No kidding. It's almost satire, which is why I don't have a youtube channel, twitter, instawhatever or anything like that. They'd probably declare me a terrorist training channel.
Favored by school shooters?! Preferred by mass murderers?!
Is there a National School Shooters Association or a North American Mass Murderers Club they poll for this hyperbolic garbage?
9 out of10 discerning psychos choose the....
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Favored by school shooters?! Preferred by mass murderers?!
Is there a National School Shooters Association or a North American Mass Murderers Club they poll for this hyperbolic garbage?
9 out of10 discerning psychos choose the....
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I just got a mental picture of emo kids meeting up at a community center annex wearing urban camo pants, Bad Religion t shirts, and black trenchcoats having M4C style debates on why Hi Point carbines are better than bushmasters for shooting up schools and how their moms are bitches because they won’t let them paint their rooms black
titsonritz
03-05-19, 19:48
I'll just leave this right here...
https://socialistra.org/
They lost me at "heavily armed". These reporters as such clueless bitches. Any time you hear that phrase you know you're in for an earful of nonsense.
Nothing more than another hit piece, and the "school shooter" and "paramilitary rebels" parts were just icing on the cake... And in other news, Toyota is the favored brand of ISIS, why would anyone want a truck associated with terrorism?... :rolleyes: WaPo can continue to sod off.
Seriously, WHY does the gun community continue to cater to these f***sticks who do nothing but smear us at every opportunity? I mean the people interviewed HAVE to know by now that A) everything they say is going to be twisted and shoehorned into anti-gun bias, and B) you're not going to change anyone's mind who's reading an article on WaPo/CNN/etc etc....
I'll just leave this right here...
https://socialistra.org/
"All power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
Never forget that the socialists seem to grasp this better than we do at times.
Diamondback
03-06-19, 11:30
Seriously, WHY does the gun community continue to cater to these f***sticks who do nothing but smear us at every opportunity? I mean the people interviewed HAVE to know by now that A) everything they say is going to be twisted and shoehorned into anti-gun bias, and B) you're not going to change anyone's mind who's reading an article on WaPo/CNN/etc etc....
Our side has its Attention Whores just like the other... and never underestimate the pathological need to Virtue Signal in a Forever-Preening Moral Narcissist. Kinda like a black-rifle version of Fudd Disease...
MountainRaven
03-06-19, 15:26
Seriously, WHY does the gun community continue to cater to these f***sticks who do nothing but smear us at every opportunity? I mean the people interviewed HAVE to know by now that A) everything they say is going to be twisted and shoehorned into anti-gun bias, and B) you're not going to change anyone's mind who's reading an article on WaPo/CNN/etc etc....
You're never going to change anyone's mind if you stay in your little corner, either.
You want to change people's minds, you need to reach out to them. Some people will only be reached through WaPo/CNN/&c. And, sure, you may not change anyone's mind. But you don't change someone's mind 100% of the time that you don't try.
Our side has its Attention Whores just like the other... and never underestimate the pathological need to Virtue Signal in a Forever-Preening Moral Narcissist. Kinda like a black-rifle version of Fudd Disease...
I can remember a range owner in FL who invited the local news to his story after Sandy Hook. He went on to explain that it's ILLEGAL to have ammo shipped to your home but people do it anyway and ignore the law. Then he went on to have employees demonstrate the AR-15 with a 100 round beta drum explaining that a "shooter" could kill 100 people or more without ever having to change the magazine and that is why banning high capacity magazine (I guess in his mind he meant 30s) was pointless.
He then said about a dozen other things that were wrong or misleading. Every other news channel of course picked up the story or at least the footage of the guy shooting an AR with a 100 round death magazine.
Not sure if he was trying to play the "honest and will tell it like it is" gun dealer or if he thought it would be a commercial for AR-15s with 100 rounds of death beta mags, but I know I stopped shooting at his range even though it was 5 minutes from my house and pretty clean. There will never be a shortage of dumbasses who willingly throw us under the bus, even when they sell ARs and high capacity magazines.
Wish we could all agree on ONE THING, "don't talk to the media" tell them only FO and keep walking.
You're never going to change anyone's mind if you stay in your little corner, either.
You want to change people's minds, you need to reach out to them. Some people will only be reached through WaPo/CNN/&c. And, sure, you may not change anyone's mind. But you don't change someone's mind 100% of the time that you don't try.
Can't be done when your message gets distorted on purpose. If there was a unbiased media, you would be correct.
MountainRaven
03-06-19, 17:23
Can't be done when your message gets distorted on purpose. If there was a unbiased media, you would be correct.
Well the alternative is this gets 100% of the news media's eye:
I can remember a range owner in FL who invited the local news to his story after Sandy Hook. He went on to explain that it's ILLEGAL to have ammo shipped to your home but people do it anyway and ignore the law. Then he went on to have employees demonstrate the AR-15 with a 100 round beta drum explaining that a "shooter" could kill 100 people or more without ever having to change the magazine and that is why banning high capacity magazine (I guess in his mind he meant 30s) was pointless.
He then said about a dozen other things that were wrong or misleading. Every other news channel of course picked up the story or at least the footage of the guy shooting an AR with a 100 round death magazine.
Not sure if he was trying to play the "honest and will tell it like it is" gun dealer or if he thought it would be a commercial for AR-15s with 100 rounds of death beta mags, but I know I stopped shooting at his range even though it was 5 minutes from my house and pretty clean. There will never be a shortage of dumbasses who willingly throw us under the bus, even when they sell ARs and high capacity magazines.
Either way, you'll have shitbags out there looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, and they don't care if they throw the whole community under the bus to do it. They don't need to be distorted to fit the narrative. At least if you have some good people out there trying to educate the news media, they can distort all they want, but the facts will remain the same, and they'll have to start with, "So-and-so isn't the typical person you might imagine who owns guns for self-protection."
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