Assault weapons maker Bushmaster makes not-suitable-for-hunting guns including the AR-15, available at your local Walmart and used last week to kill 27 people, including 20 young children, at a school in Newtown, CT.
In order to sell its deadly wares, Bushmaster peddles absurd versions of “manliness” in which carrying an assault weapon capable of massacring most of a small town makes you “manly” and respecting your wife makes you “unmanly.” At Bushmaster’s site, you can “revoke” someone’s “man card” for a variety of supposed transgressions against manliness, helpfully provided by Bushmaster. Many are of the real-men-don’t-listen-to-their-wives variety, like “Must ask permission to ask permission” and “Where ‘yes I will’ becomes ‘if she’ll let me.’” Here’s one set of Bushmaster-provided options; I’ve highlighted one particularly noteworthy item:
So, according to Bushmaster, if you don’t stare down 5th graders, you aren’t “manly.” Good news, though: There’s an easy way to get your manhood back: Carry around a Bushmaster assault weapon:
Carrying an assault weapon and staring down 5th graders is manly, according to the company that made the assault weapon used to kill 20 young schoolchildren last week. Good to know.
Perhaps inevitably, a Bushmaster.com visitor made a “man card” for “Adam L” of “Newtown, CT,” an apparent reference to last week’s mass murder.
This is who the NRA represents. Not sportsmen who enjoy hunting deer on crisp fall weekends. Gun makers who suggest the key to being a man is carrying an assault weapon and menacing 5th graders.
