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Time Warner Cable said in a statement that it would “no longer accept ads showing semi-automatic weapons and guns pointed at people”, Multichannel News reports. “We stand by this policy. If it’s essential to a business owner to show this kind of imagery in their commercials, there are other advertising options in the marketplace”. Time Warner Cable’s move comes just weeks after the tragic Connecticut elementary school shooting and days after President Barack Obama announced a plan to combat gun violence. Obama’s plan includes universal background checks for all gun purchasers and a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. The National Cable and Telecommunications Association said in a statement Wednesday that it supported the President’s proposals.
Time Warner Cable Bans Some Gun Ads
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No guns.
How about showing knives?
Or showing people driving dangerously?
Or showing people blowing stuff up?
How about we all get a common sense vaccine?
Cars aren’t made solely to kill things. They serve many purposes.
Knives aren’t made to solely kill things. They serve many purposes.
Guns are made to kill things. They serve one purpose.
The one purpose my gun serves is to protect me and my family.
Target rifles & pistols are not designed to kill things.
Yes, they are.
The estimated total number of guns held by U.S. civilians is 310,000,000.
(That’s 310 MILLION)
Where are the prescribed 310,000,000 victims of these inherently evil “one purpose” devices per your above statement?
Guns are used in movies to create action.
They are used in 21-gun salutes.
They are used to start races.
They are used to for target sports, as with archery and darts.
They are used to force avalanches to make ski slopes safe.
Guns are made for a variety of reasons. And who cares if they are used to kill things. What is dynamite used for ‘Or C-4? They will not show guns pointed at people? How about animals? They will put Al-Jazeera on their cable system but not guns pointed at people. Go figure.
Well say goodbye to those Downton Abbey commercials.
How about the depiction of cross bows?
Knives?
Reckless driving?
Explosives?
Where does it end?
They’ll ban the ads, but Time Warner cable will still apparently air the shows and movies showing semi-automatic weapons and guns pointing at people?
That is because in the first case it is scientifically proven that television influences people, but in the second case it is not scientifically proven that television influences people.
Liberal logic: try it, you might like it.
Hey Time-Warner: I’m your cable TV customer, but you can’t figure out how to deliver me a signal without constant screen freezes, tiling, moray patterns, sound drop-outs, and often complete outages, lasting hours or more. So maybe spend some time on fixing all that, not on PC social engineering. Dopes.
Agreed.
P.C. bull$hit designed to increase pr & sales.
Good luck TW.
It seems to me that as a private business they can choose to air whatever they want. It also seems to me that they are perhaps responding to the NRA’s charge that the media shows too much violence. And there is a difference between ads and shows. Ads run in a lot more places kids may have access to them than actual shows. So, everyone should just calm down. No one is taking away YOUR guns…Just some images of guns in some ads. Geez.
Hey Peacock,
Just reset your cable box! Sheesh!
Done that, but the Time-Warner Cable problems persist. They keep sending techs out to fix it, with each new guy trashing the work of the previous genius, and then giving me decent reception again for about two weeks, when it all turns to crap again. And then of course there are the frequent total outages, when the whole neighborhood goes down, sometimes for a day or more. Same shit w/T-W high-speed internet. My neighbors are having the same problems with this inept and arrogant company, and a bunch of us are about to jump to dish. We hear that isn’t great, either, but nothing could be worse than Time-Warner. Google it, you’ll see what I mean.
I’m not sure how much taking guns off of the advertising airwaves will do towards the public good, but it’s a start. They’re not taking all guns ads off their advertising airwaves, just those of semi-automatic weapons and those where violence is insinuated. I’ve still yet to hear an opinion or viewpoint as to why semi-automatic weapons are needed to hunt or protect one’s home, and I’m still waiting. How does not showing those types of ads infringe on one’s rights to hunt or protect one’s home??
If intruders were guaranteed to always come by the front door, use the bell and wait for an answer, I could see your point.
How ironic that the actual shows which have an abundance of ultra violence are fine to air, while the advertisements (which get far less attention) are scrutinized for their violent content. Is that hypocritical or what? Who are they trying to pacify
What do you think is the purpose of a semi automatic firearm? If you are by chance in a gun fight, defending yourself against an assailant with a semi automatic weapon?
Or perhaps you believe a single shot firearm would be sufficient?
Again, common sense vaccine is what is needed.
I love the car argument.
In order to legally own & operate a car you must:
1) Have a valid license which you had to pass a written and driving test to obtain
2) Register the vehicle with the state
3) Insurance
4) Inspection on an annual basis
Why would gun owners oppose these common sense measures as they apply to firearms?
Because you can use a gun to fend off a would-be attacker but you do not have many options if a bad driver is coming at you.
Wrong. You don’t have to do any of those things to OWN a car. Licensing, inspection, etc. ONLY apply when operating an automobile on public roads. A concealed carry permit operates on much the same logic. Simple ownership and storage of firearms in my home is not your or the governments damn business provided I violate no laws.
Keep your government off my freedom.
America-land of the free and home of the brave? NOT ANYMORE-the far left of our country is scared to death of guns and are more than willing to throw away our freedoms because of their fears.
Cue the trend in bolt-action rifles and pump-action shotguns.
..Excellent,no annoying ads but I still get the 2 hrs of blood and gore…like porn in a plain brown envelope…strong moral stance there TWC…I like my carnage in LARGE doses..not bite size…