‘More paint and less hate’: Online petition calls for end to ‘black targets’ at shooting ranges

[dodo bird]

what ever happened to this guy???

 

[.308 Norma]

Fella's;

So white, black, yellow, and red targets are racist? Seems to me that leaves green - - until the Martians show up of course.

900F

Sorry, but green targets are sure to draw leftist wrath. There's a lot of leftists out there that are proud to call themselves "green" no matter what color they actually are.

 

[Group Therapy]

When I staple my black silhouette target to the cardboard, I always lean it slightly to the left.

I's sure that will anger someone, somewhere.

Do you use BLUE targets too?

 

[bangswitch]

How incredibly racist would a person have to be to come up with this?

How incredibly stupid would a person have to be to come up with this?

It's a S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E, for Christ's sake, it's supposed to be black. What color is your shadow?

 

[Nanook]

How ridiculous can you get? And by the way, almost every black person I've ever seen has been a shade of brown. I don't think I've seen any brown B-27 targets.

You have to really WANT to be offended sometimes.

When I shot my CCL qualifications, I used green B-27 targets for practice. It's okay, though, I'm part Irish.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Jon Street, "‘More paint and less hate’: Online petition calls for end to ‘black targets’ at shooting ranges ", The Blaze, 19 Feb 2016.
The article is illustrated with a classic silhouette target: black ink printed on paper. From the tone, I thought they were talking about targets with recognizable ethnic people, not black silhouettes.
"More paint"? Targets are usually printed with black ink on white to biege paper (a lot of it recycled) for economy. Other colors of ink are the exception. The "Accu Man" targets used when I qualified for my carry permit were printed (in Greeneville TN) in three shades of green, dark outside, lighter green, lightest green, then white for core of target; I kept all 50 in the white (guess I hate white targets using the "logic" of the petitioners).

 

[Bang!]

There's no end to this madness. So...what's for dinner?

 

[Chuck R.]

Hey, I'm doing my part, not a single black target on my range!



Chuck

 

[FROGO207]

The reality of it is they do not want you to be shooting at ANYTHING, let alone a representation of anything like a human. Cause lives matter.If those that WANT ran the country it would be off in the ditch within a week.

 

[George Dickel]

Some time back I watched a movie titled Idiocracy. It is a Wayne's World level of acting type movie that portrays how ignorant our country becomes in the future. We have arrived and possibly surpassed the level of idiocracy in the movie.

 

[80Goat]

Do you use BLUE targets too?

I am an equal opportunity person - I try to equally offend everyone, so yes, blue targets.

 

[Jim Watson]

This is not a new plaint of the Liberal Left. Why do you think you see all these colored versions of B27 humanoid targets? Brought out at the time of the last whine. Then there were police unions complaining about blue targets. Can't please anybody.

 

[plodder]

The whole basis of this though process is so whacky it could never amount to anything. Just like that time a couple of years ago I heard some weirdo suggest that a man who felt like he was really a woman should use the women's restroom. Nothing ever came of that either.......Oh, wait...

 

[Bush Pilot]

I'm hanging on to my black targets because Black Targets Matter.

 

[salt&battery]

for 40 years they have gotten their way walking all over and intimidating mostly white people so why try this

 

[Dog Soldier]

Gun use control is very slow and calculated. We will need a Government agency to approve and inspect every shooting range large and small. These are not stupid people proposing these ideas.
This is a planned move tying shooting ranges to racism. It is just the beginning.

 

[Legionnaire]

 

[X-Rap]

Pure Tier1 SJW Operator Clap Trap.
Where do the snowflakes come up with this stuff?

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

Gun use control is very slow and calculated. We will need a Government agency to approve and inspect every shooting range large and small. These are not stupid people proposing these ideas.
This is a planned move tying shooting ranges to racism. It is just the beginning.

And suggesting that people like THR members are racist.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

Thanks to Dog Soldier for the well thought response.
This and other seemingly crazy issues raised by the left almost always have an underlying purpose.

 

[harrygunner]

A silly person made a silly statement. Happens all the time. Not news worthy.

 

[Dog Soldier]

We ignored many silly statements from the anti-gun Orgs over the years. Was that not a mistake? It is like when they said, we only want sensible gun control

 

[Sig Bill]

How about yellow?

Or will that anger the Asians?

 

[Dog Soldier]

I thought about Green. But then there is that Martian Issue.

 

[salt&battery]

for 40 years they have gotten their way walking all over mostly white people so why try this

We ignored many silly statements from the anti-gun Orgs over the years. Was that not a mistake? It is like when they said, we only want sensible gun control

Exactly