Simultaneously ridiculous and horrifying--the pink Hello Kitty 9 mm handgun

[Lobster Martini]

If I was planning to carry a gun for self-protection, it surely wouldn't be a pink "Hello Kitty" 9 mm unless my objective was to make my assailant laugh himself to death.

[EFerrari]

1. Tell me this is a joke.

This reminds me of when they dropped packages of food and bomblets on Afghanistan that were the same size and colors.

[MisterHowdy]

2. is that real?

where did you see this?

[Lobster Martini]

16. Here's the link: http://www.libertybelles.org/

(n/t)

[MisterHowdy]

22. Thanks.

[Mojorabbit]

3. Actually

I know I should be horrified but I want one for my collection.

[fedupfisherman]

4. That's a good gun

HK makes a good 9mm for target shooting and self defense.

[Wiley50]

32. All of HK's Guns are Top Shelf

Take the MP5

This is how Elian gonzales remembers the HK MP5

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:WtzQJzkbrWEfgM:http://roguespearcentral.tripod.com/elian2

[michreject]

5. You can have a gun refinished in any color you desire

I have two that I did in green. I know a lady that has a shocking pink Glock. :puke:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. With a Kitty cat on it?

n/t

[fedupfisherman]

8. Yup

Custom job to make guns more appealing to women

[wuushew]

19. Why is pink assumed to be to be a feminine color?

Anything other than a gunmetal is a waste of resources.

This topic is less likely to be moved/locked if it transitions away from purely firearms to the more important gender equality/gender stereotype points of conversation.

[Clark2008]

59. Amen.

I'm a female and find pink to be the most putrid color imaginable. I don't even put my newborn baby girl in it if I can help it (yes, some of her clothes are pink, but they're not solid pink - they're usually a mix of colors. I try to stay with peach or green).

[michreject]

20. Nope

That kitty is Kalishnakitty

[Cleita]

6. Huh?

After scratching my head, maybe it's not such a bad idea to let your assailant laugh his head off. It might give you some kind of weird edge.

Other than that, :rofl: btw I want one. I love pink and I love My Kitty.

[Catshrink]

10. I thought the same thing...

If I had a gun, I'd want this one. Or maybe SpongeBob, or the Simpsons.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Goes well with the SpongeBob taser.

[LostinVA]

17. Haruka wants it

She's also annoyed that she can't get a pink taser, since they're illegal in NJ.

Personally, I want a ChocoCat .22 rifle.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. Pffft.

:rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

11. Link?

[Lobster Martini]

18. Link: http://www.libertybelles.org/

[BlooInBloo]

21. Ah. They don't sell it. It's *just* a picture. Thanks!

[countingbluecars]

12. Just awful.

A kid magnet.

[rucky]

13. At least it's not a toy that looks like a handgun. n/t

[Az]

14. Do not google Hello Kitty Vibrator

One day Sanrio will rule the world.

[w8liftinglady]

24. lol--of course you know I had to....glad I have paypal

:blush:

[MiniMe]

28. OMG, I did too. Shoulder massager, yeah, right

[Cerridwen]

15. I want one in purple! Does "Hello Kitty" do purple?

Hey, and if a "mugger" pees their pants laughing at my gun...works for me. :evilgrin:

[Sabriel]

23. I'm glad it's not made by Glock

I don't think I could take it.

[walldude]

25. I'm not against guns but this is plain stupid

and for you collectors who think it's harmless this will do more to hurt your cause than any anti-gun lobby. This is ammunition for anti-gun people to use as evidence that the gun culture does not take gun safety seriously. Is this why the gun lobby wants to eliminate judgments against gun manufacturers? So they can make a mockery of the responsibilities of gun ownership? The man who thinks painting a gun pink is going to attract women to guns should have thought to ask a woman. The only people this is going to attract is little kids. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

[jmowreader]

53. If that's a real gun, someone had it customized

German gunmakers don't go for frivolities.

[oldgrowth]

26. Something the little kiddies would love to play with bang bang

Nuts!!!!!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

29. Can't Find A Thing Wrong With It. If A Woman Wanted A Gun Like That What's The Problem?

Who cares what design someone wants on their gun? Are they like supposed to all have skulls with crossbones on them or something?

Either it shoots or it doesn't. Who cares what color it is or what logo it has?

And if anything made me laugh it was your whole 'look like a toy' spiel. You telling me that it would be ok to leave the gun around where it is easily accessible to a child, so long as it is gunmetal that the child recognizes it is a gun rather than a toy? Sorry, but THAT's the dumbest thing I've seen.

It's a gun. A GUN. It shouldn't be anywhere NEAR a child in which they could play with it to begin with. That ain't got a goddamn thing to do with what color it friggin is.

[Katherine Brengle]

31. Children aside for a moment, why would anyone market something like this to grown women?

We're not children. We don't think like children. All the women I know don't care to be treated like children.

Yet marketers constantly try to infantilize us and sell us this silly bullshit we don't need. Women have been groomed into pathetic childlike consumer zombies by these people.

Why is that?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

33. Oh God LOL. You Seem To Think You Speak For All Women. Newsflash: You Don't.

There are obviously women who DO want this gun, or it wouldn't be marketed to begin with. Hell, if you bothered to pay attention even SLIGHTLY to this thread you'd see there's a woman even in our small reach that already said she'd want this gun. So please understand that just because YOU feel certain ways, that doesn't equate to ALL women feeling those ways. Some women probably would enjoy owning that gun very much. I can only imagine how you'd judge them merely for not walking lockstep with you in your perceptions of what a woman is supposed to be. :eyes:

[Clark2008]

60. But, here's the thing - other than Sandra Lee, what grown woman

walks around in hot pink?

Honestly?

[MiniMe]

51. For the same reason they stopped making guns look real

I'm sorry, I'm not against gun ownership. But make guns look like guns. They stopped making kids toys look real so cops would know that a kid (or anybody else) had a toy, not a real gun. Making guns look like toys is just not a good idea, what happens when a police officer thinks the guns somebody is pointing at them is a toy, and the officer gets shot? What happens if an older teen uses gets their hands on that gun?

To me, it isn't a matter of owning a gun or not, it is a matter of taking a serious gun and making it look like a toy.

[Katherine Brengle]

30. That is really f*ing dangerous.

And on a different note, majorly infantilizing. Marketing a "toy" handgun to women like that is really gross.

[fedupfisherman]

35. Well I think it's a custom job

H&K USPs don't come in that color from the German factory

[ProudDad]

34. One of the gungeon denizens

uses "Hello Kitty" with a machine gun as a sig line...

Pretty demented, eh?


On Edit: Those stupid things should be re-designed to shoot the real idiot -- the one holding it... :evilgrin:


Let the games begin :hide:

[DemBones DemBones]

39. You think gun owners should be shot???

We live out in the boonies. Friends on the police force have told us we need guns because police response time to get out here is too slow to protect us if we had an armed intruder.

Neither of us would want to shoot someone but if our lives were in danger, we would.

Handguns are also used for target shooting, which is all we've ever used them for, and I hope all we ever use them for.

[ProudDad]

45. I hope that's all you ever have to use them for too... (n/t)

[LostinVA]

52. Wait -- you're anti-gun, so you promote shooting gun owners?

I'm certainly no fan of guns, especially handguns, but that's ridiculous.

[shugah]

36. i've never owned a gun

or even wanted to... ... ... but damn! i have got to get me one of those! a Hello Kitty handgun! PINK, even!

2nd amendment, uh-huh! where do i sign to join the NRA?

[TokarevMike]

37. that's dangerous

what if some kid thought it was a toy and started to play with it? it could go off in her hands and kill her. WTF.

[DemBones DemBones]

38. What a hoot! I love it!!!

To me, a pink handgun with Hello Kitty on it says:

"I'm feminine but do not mess with me."

It would be fun to take to target shooting matches.

[soothsayer]

46. This makes me want a gun! I guess if I skipped the ammo I'd be safe.

[AnnieBW]

40. For the female assassin

who has everything.

[DemBones DemBones]

41. Assassins wouldn't use anything that obvious

for, um, obvious reasons.

[Canuckistanian]

42. The favorite of 8th-grade lesbian gangs everywhere!

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=274&site_area=1

Flabbergasted by the sheer depravity of it all, O'Reilly nevertheless forged ahead. "I never thought of this," said the host of the "no-spin zone." "It makes sense that, if you had lawless gay people, they would do this kind of thing. You associate homosexuality more with a social movement, not a criminal movement. But you're saying this is all over the country, detective?"

"It's all over the country," Wheeler replied. "I mean, you go from New York to California to wherever you want to name, you can see these organizations." Next came the pink guns. "Now, the other thing, too, that our viewers are going to find very, very interesting, is the fact that they actually carry—some of these groups carry pink pistols," Wheeler said. "They call themselves the pink-pistol-packing group. And these are lesbians that actually carry pistols. That's 9-millimeter Glocks. They use these. They commit crimes, and they cause a lot of hurt to a lot of people."

[Initech]

43. Looks great with your High School Musical bullet proof vest!

Honestly, if you want further proof that our society is going straight to hell, look no further!

[Jackeen]

44. I think my wife would love it.

Guaranteed way of making sure I don't 'borrow' her pressie, and she loves Hello Kitty. (She's also 35, if anyone thinks it's marketed towards kids)

The whole 'what if a kid gets ahold of it' argument is ridiculous. You shouldn't be leaving firearms of any colour in range of kids.

NTM

[soothsayer]

47. Ok, now I want the Hello Kitty tarot cards

[dropkickpa]

48. I want that!!!

And I'm a 30 year old woman. I don't feel that it's infantilizing in the least. I LOVE Sanrio stuff and hardly fit into a mold of someone trying to make me a "widdle baby girl".

[Clark2008]

61. Ewwww...

Why do women like that AWFUL color.

That's simply UGLY.

What's wrong with black?

[dropkickpa]

62. I used to be anti-pink

But, having a girl-child has made me somewhat immune to it. Although I would greatly prefer the hello kitty 9mm to be purple, pink is tolerable. Oh yeah, I am the least girly-girl you'll probably ever meet.

[Buns_of_Fire]

49. I want one!

...but only if I can get it with the matching SuperSquirter Grenade Launcher.

[Bunny]

50. Cool! I'd prefer one that had Happy Bunny on it, though.

I like HB's attitude!

[Lilith Velkor]

54. I'll take one, and a lavender one for backup!

Yesss!! :headbang:

:rofl:

[madokie]

55. hell that thing is cocked too

[benEzra]

56. That's probably a competition gun, i.e. IPSC/IDPA/3-gun...

lots of customized paint jobs on the competition circuit.

Here's an AR-15 target gun, from a competitive shooter:




BTW, I want a Kalashnikitty T-shirt...

[Zookeeper]

57. There is something wonderfully perverse about that....

especially if used to shoot the nuts off a rapist.

(BTW, I'm NOT a fan of guns.)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

58. Does it belong to this guy?