See The Pro-Gun Commercial the Super Bowl Banned
-By Warner Todd Huston
Firearms company Daniel Defense filmed a TV commercial that it hoped it could air during the upcoming 2014 Super Bowl game, but NFL officials turned the ad away. Now you can see that ad right here.
The ad shows a young man coming home from work and walking into his home where a photo of him in a U.S. Marine dress uniform is seen. The man sees his wife and infant child and the voice over talks of the man’s responsibility to keep his family safe now that he is home from service to the country.
But the NFL rejected the ad saying, “Unfortunately, we cannot accept your commercial in football/Super Bowl spots due to the rules the NFL itself has set into place for your company’s category.”
Apparently the NFL is against showing images of families, U.S. Marines, and people talking about responsibility and the U.S. Constitution.
Yeah, the same sport that is based on a certain amount of violence and mayhem is against responsibility.
Daniel Defense was a bit taken aback by the rejection because the company had aired a similar commercial limited to the Georgia TV market during the 2012 Super Bowl without any problems from the NFL.
Of course, each year Super Bowl ad space is replete with ads filled with violence and gun play from Hollywood movies to video games without the NFL doing a thing about it.
So, why is it OK for the NFL to allow these ads for movies and video games but not a company that wants to use guns responsibly?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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