From BBC News:
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that the posters were not suitable to be seen by children.
It added that the use of a glamorous actress, gun images and aspirational text “could glamorize violence”.
Typical Hollywood trigger finger
It seems they can’t stop at banning guns, they need to ban photos of them as well.
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I thought there were no politics here. An agency ruling on an issue sure seems political to me.
Aaron, I think that falls under the category of “culture”. It is a reflection of UK society. The UK has such a rich firearms history, I since I was a kid I have dreamed about owning a rifle in a caliber ending with “H&H”, yet they seem to have fallen so far.
Well, it can’t be the basic concept that is wrong, so they have to work backwards from the violent act. Ban the weapon, ban the pictures of the weapons, ban speech about using weapons, ban bread sticks.
The United Kingdom. It’s where Great Britain used to be.
hahahahahahaha that hurts my head, politics aside I think it glamorizes skanky unfashionable people holding guns in a way to make obvious they have no business holding them.
the firearm situation in britania is a cultural and political one and is well documented after ww1.