Get a Haircut, Win a Gun

[Ben]

Cool promotion. What the hell is a "Christopher 2X"?


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http://www.wlky.com/news/20991636/detail.html

Get A Haircut, Win A Gun
Okolona Barbershop Offers AK-47 Contest

POSTED: 4:26 pm EDT September 18, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Get a haircut, get a chance on an AK-47 rifle; that's the offer from a Louisville barbershop.

The shop owner said he's just trying to raise awareness to the right to bear arms, but the gun promotion is drawing fire.



A customer at the Okolona barbershop will win a Romanian made AK-47.

Everywhere you look around the shop, you can tell it is a pro-gun atmosphere, from the hats to the mounted heads.



Bruce Gooden teaches gun safety. He's a certified concealed carry instructor, a lifetime member of the NRA and he cuts hair.

The more involved someone is with guns and gun rights, the more chances they have to win the $750 semi-automatic weapon.

“You get one ticket per customer. If you are an NRA member you get two. If you join the NRA you get six,” said Gooden.


Gooden said the promotion is not just about increasing business, though business is up.

“It's not so much about the AK. It's about the second amendment. That's what I'm trying to do, raise awareness,” he said.

Gooden is raising awareness, but probably not always in the way he wants. A local community activist, who often speaks for families devastated by gun violence, worries about the message to young people.

“I'm not knocking the responsive gun owners, but the message doesn't resonate with the minds I deal with, which are fragile minds. For whatever reason when you talk about guns it's like an addiction to guns,” said activist Christopher 2X.

Gooden said no one needs to be concerned about law abiding gun owners.

“You don't have to worry about the good guys. It's the bad guys. We've got plenty of laws. All we have to do is enforce the laws we have on the books. The good guys will prevail,” Gooden said.

2X said he would be much more concerned about the promotion if it was done in neighborhoods which experience gun violence on an almost daily basis.

The Okolona barbershop plans to give away the AK-47 just in time for Christmas.

[Standing Wolf]

Gooden is raising awareness, but probably not always in the way he wants. A local community activist, who often speaks for families devastated by gun violence, worries about the message to young people.
“I'm not knocking the responsive gun owners, but the message doesn't resonate with the minds I deal with, which are fragile minds. For whatever reason when you talk about guns it's like an addiction to guns,” said activist Christopher 2X.

Trite.

[BridgeRunner]

The guy's surname is 2X?  Sounds like he has an addiction to being weird.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

What the hell is a "Christopher 2X"?

Twice as good as a Christopher X.

[jackdanson]

the more chances they have to win the $750 semi-automatic weapon.

They got ripped off!!

Who'd pay $750 for a romy!?!?  Actually I sold one for $600 at the height of panic when you couldn't find them.  Had a bunch of nice bulgarian mags with it though.

[Viking]

They got ripped off!!

Who'd pay $750 for a romy!?!?  Actually I sold one for $600 at the height of panic when you couldn't find them.  Had a bunch of nice bulgarian mags with it though.

I would, provided I could have it without the hazzles we have to deal with over here.

[freakazoid]

Maybe 2X is just to conceal his name?

[Gewehr98]

Who'd pay $750 for a romy!?!?  Actually I sold one for $600 at the height of panic when you couldn't find them.  Had a bunch of nice bulgarian mags with it though.

Just dig around a bit.

http://www.gunsamerica.com/965991279/Guns/Rifles/AK-47-Rifles/Full-Stock/Romanian_SAR_1_7_62x39_AK_47.htm

I know my Romanian SAR-1 has definitely gone up in price since, and my Bulgarian SLR-95?  Hooboy! 

[Marnoot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_2X

[Chrissy]

Nobody should get haircuts.  Both men and women look better with long hair   

[zahc]

I agree that women should never cut their hair. Men look better with long hair but it's not very tactical at all. I would have long hair if my hair wasn't too thick.

[makattak]

I agree that women should never cut their hair. Men look better with long hair but it's not very tactical at all. I would have long hair if my hair wasn't too thick.

Unless it's in a tactical ponytail ala Steven Seagal.

Maybe you could get a tactical scrunchie to tie it up!

[S. Williamson]

I am disappointed.

I thought the title was "Get a Haircut With a Gun."   


 

[Ben]

Nobody should get haircuts.  Both men and women look better with long hair   

But then in another 20 years I'll be one of those old bald guys with a ponytail and will have to turn in my truck for a 1970 VW bus and do 50mph in the fast lane.