This one’s in Oakland, after all, where guns more than dollars are the neighborhood currency. Might as well transfer that fact from the political unconscious to blaring daylight awareness.
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What do you expect? There are four hundred million guns in private hands in this country.
So what about this
surprises, shocks, amazes, and offends you? Do you think it degrades your neighborhood? Depresses property values? Do you think a miles-long lineup of gun/ammo billboards (broken up by booze and breastaurant ads) would be a bad thing? A bad look?
Or do you just dislike being reminded by a huge roadside graphic that guns blanket your city, with many more always on the way?
You live in the heart of gun culture, babe. Why should billboards confirming that fact bother you? Advertisers advertise to their markets.
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It’s part of this growing trend toward gun ads in general culture (not just in sporting magazines, etc.) media. We’re well past the time the NFL banned a gunny spot meant to run during the Super Bowl. I mean, note who won the presidency. Whole new world. If you’re not ready for billboards along our major highways advertising guns, you might want to get ready.