And If You Should Accidentally Shoot Yourself or Your Children ….
Okay, I had to check around to see if this one is a parody. Apparently, it’s not.
A West Virginia hospital is having a fundraiser, where the door prize is a matched set of Rugers — a .357 and a .44. A set. You know, His and Hers. Bank robber, get away driver.
The theme is “Building a Healthy Future … One Bullet At a Time?”
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
Guaranteed to bring in more clients in need of their services.
174 school shootings since Sandy Hook.
2As glf says, this is one way to ensure new clients for their hospital! I find these types of raffles very odd. I guess I’m just not Southern enough to think this is a great idea 😉
3Good Grief.
4No joke GLF! Now that is a solid marketing plan, what a great way to drum up future customers.
5In cases like this, does anyone do a background check on the winner before handing over the deadly weapons? Or is it just, Here ya go and have fun!
6Wonder when the marketing twit who thought of this will start “Free Ammo Fridays” with a side of moonshine. Idiots.
7Since there is a statistically good chance someone will be killed by one or more of these guns,maybe they should give away burial plots or all expenses paid funerals,as well.
8They need a catchy name for their matched set, like:
The Homicide-Suicide 2 Pack.
9Good grief. Well, you know when you’re going around begging for door prizes for events, you gotta take what folks will give you.
10And where are the little bitty revolvers for the kids, so we can arrive at s child-free society even faster?…
11Actually, that’s a GREAT way to raise money for the hospital. Once selling all the tickets, and later on collecting insurance for patching up the victims.
Maybe the V.A. oughta try it.
Also: What happens if a felon wins or a parolee? Do they have to give it back? Oh, wait, this is West Virginia. Sorry, dumb question.
12Second prize is a carton of cigs.
13Good one, Henry! I was thinking that maybe you get automatically entered in the raffle for a car and a bottle of Jack.
14This is as good as a Baptist “Church Shoot”.
15Maybe it’s not global warming we should worry about…maybe it’s Toxic Brain Syndrome.
I remember when I first arrived in D.C. Someone asked me where i came from and they were actually very visibly relieved when according to him, I was not from “West By God Forgotten Virginia.” It’s all clear to me now.
16Now that churches and hospitals are giving away guns, will banks and tupperware parties be next? When did America become
17brain dead?
Yet another GOPer opined at an event that he did many indecent things with animals ….this is not a parody either, so much so, Breitbart’s mini-me is in a frenzy.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/12/Thad-Cochran-I-Grew-Up-Doing-All-Kinds-Of-Indecent-Things-With-Animals
18the video:
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/politicalledger/2014/06/12/cochran-mcdaniel-indecent-animals/10372069/
E platypus onion and Rick: You guys are in marketing, aren’t you? Both excellent ideas!
19maryelle , America “brain dead” began with that sneaky Eisenhower and every politician that involved us in Southeast Asia. It’s so frustrating that……
That dumb nuts McCain, the senile from AZ. (deleted in deference to Moma)
If my Kindergarten teacher runs for office, she is more qualified than the boys in Congress who never learned to play nice with others.
20Thanks Rubymay. Actually I am a semi-retired marketer(aka ex-farmer). We marketed grain and livestock(raised and sold for slaughter). Telling jokes to cattle and making them laugh is an art form.
21Remember the movie Deliverance? The remote northeast corner of West Virginia where this hospital is located is the same godforsaken back country kind of area. They’re lucky to have a hospital at all, so I can’t be too judgmental about the people, the community, and how they’re struggling to meet their healthcare needs. Sad.
22Yeah, and if their malpractice insurance rates go through the roof because they caused a slaughter-by-won-guns, well it’ll just be Obama’s fault…good God, hasn’t anyone in that so called “hospital” ever heard of the Hippocratic Oath? I’m gonna go read some Jane Austen and calm down…
23Whoever wins the raffle for these has to pass the same NICS check, plus any state mandated checks, as someone buying a firearm from a gun store. That’s a nice set of high quality pistols plus a display case, worth about $1100 in total. These sets don’t normally get fired, as that causes the value to drop by quite a bit.
24Mr Moderate- twould be nice if the average Joe didn’t normally get fired so his/her boss can get a bigger bonus.
25Is this for the dudes with teeny weenies?
26Begonia Buzzkill-thanks for the links. Now I’m picturing “Deliverance” with suits and ties. Other Southern pols have been a mite more explicit in their characterizations of first girlfriends.
27Is this the same state in which resides a chemical company called “Freedom….” which polluted the Elk River and several tributaries in January (the result of which is that people couldn’t use their water for ANY purpose and some of them still won’t because they were told shortly after the spill that the water was safe and it wasn’t) and again just last week or so? And nothing has been done to penalize the company, obviously. So, what is strange about a hospital raffling off guns? As someone said, drumming up business.
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