Radio ad asks Houstonians to arm themselves against evacuees

this probably belongs in D&D.

i can't stand this crap. the racism i'm seeing in my own community is eye-opening...and it's soooooo disappointing to me.

 

Controversial or not, it's pure marketing genius by Pruett. I don't see why he has to deny that he's profiting off of fear. People buy guns to shoot two things, animals and people. Everybody that hunts is pretty much set as far as guns go, so he has to market to the the people that want to protect themselves. He used the hurricane perfectly to do that. He's not selling maternity clothes or party favors, he's selling guns.

 

I prefer to use my fists of fury.

 

done and done.

 

The Houston Press had a really funny interview/blog entry on this.

http://www.houstonpress.com/blogs/?p=204

<i>Houston Press: How do you tell a Katrician from a –
Jim Pruett: –a good guy? That’s when they’ve got a knife to your throat and they’re going to kill you for your $2.50.

HP: OK…do you have to handle them differently if they’re a Katrician as opposed to a Houstonian?
JP: Absolutely not.

HP: Is there a silver bullet, say, for the Katrician?
JP: No, no.

HP: Can you recognize them physically walking down the street, or is it like pod people where they actually just look totally human?
JP: They look just like anybody else….I’m just saying, no matter what the threat…you need to have that concealed handgun license so you can protect your way of life.

HP: Shouldn’t we just all buy guns, then, to protect ourselves from Katricians or maybe an uppity Floridian?

(From there, we talked about how handgun buyers must pass rigorous background checks, which rules out those ******* Katricians. But I posited a theory whereby one of those bastards could get their mitts on a heater and wreak all kinds of havoc. I also tried to get into what I call my final solution for the Katrician problem.)

HP: What if a good evacuee buys a gun…and then the next day, they get in a bad mood and they turn into a Katrician? So now you have a Katrician with a concealed weapon. How do you defend yourself against that?
JP: [silence] If they turn bad?

HP: Yeah.
JP: Well, I have a gun. Is that what you’re asking? How would I defend myself against them?

HP: I’m suggesting a situation where a Katrician can have a concealed weapon.
JP: They can’t…That’s a big, strange if….Are you an anti-gunner?

HP: No, I have no opinion either way.
JP: Do you have a concealed handgun license permit? You don’t feel threatened in this modern day of crime and what have you?

HP: Well, I feel a little more threatened now that you put this idea of crazy Katricians running around.
JP: There are crazy all-kinds-of-people running around.

HP: Sounds like zombies to me, frankly.
JP: You need to call the Houston Police Department and get the stats on all of the crime done by –

HP: Do you think there’s a way that maybe if we got them to wear a scarlet ‘K’ or something, or some sort of number, that we could better identify them?
JP: I don’t…

HP: What if they think I’m a Katrician, though – there’s some…sort of, like, Three’s Company mix-up, and they think I’m a Katrician. How do I prove that I’m a Houstonian – be like, ‘Hey, hey, I’m one of you! Don’t shoot!’”
JP: What are you, in some kind of dream world or something? I think…people need to wear a big red dot to identify them as being an employee of the Houston Press. That’s my first thought, talking to you.

HP: We’re thinking about implementing that so we aren’t confused as Katricians. Or as working for the Chronicle.
JP: I’m saying that if your life is threatened, whether it’s by Katricians or anybody else, you should get your concealed handgun license to protect yourself.

HP: OK. But it’s just that that’s not what you said in the ad….You didn’t say ‘protect yourself from any criminal element.’”
JP: Well, I’m saying that now….You don’t have to be an intellectual to figure out what I’m saying.</i>

Brilliant!

 

three's company mix up!

 

I say its more regionist than racist..."Katricians" just happen to have a slightly different culture from the region they came. From what has been my expierence anyway and I know around 10-15 personally...You also have to throw in the factor of, most of them have nothing to lose, they have lost everything they ever knew...I would have some of the same comments if the situation was reversed...Wife and kids starve? Or turn to crime for my family's needs....Not saying their arent other alternatives, but for some people this is the most logical/easiest/fastest way....

 

Ha ha, that blog entry is funny.

I never liked Pruett's radio show; he's a pompous moron. It's been over a year since Katrina. If they're still here, I think they're officially Houstonians now.

 

from what i've seen, no one has trouble with white folks from NOLA. they're b****ing about black folks. i see racism in this stuff, big time. particularly out on my side of town. it really really really bothers me.

 

There are days when its tough being a Houstonian and having to explain to people that we're not a bunch of dumb paranoid gun nuts.

 

just remind them we were the picture of kindness last year at this time!

 

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My way of life happens to include "not walking around with a gun in a state of constant race-based paranoid delusion" - so I'm uncertain what to do.

 

Not saying theres not been racisim from this but I was at the astrodome when they brought the evac's in and I may have saw 2 white people out of 10,000.....Are you denying that most evacs from Nola, are noticably different, as far as dress, hair style, and speech are concerned?

 

i'm saying that the white folks who hang out only with white folks wouldn't know the difference. they see it as an influx of black folks who are the root of all evil; without whom, houston would be a perfect utopia. that's the reaction i'm seeing. i hear/see/read something new about it every night and it makes me wanna vomit. my wife will tell me little anecdotes of conversations she hears during the day about it in our community...i told her the other night that she needs to tell me those stories as soon as i get home from work, so i have time to digest them BEFORE i lay my head on a pillow to go to sleep. i can not begin to tell you how disappointed i am in the response i've seen.

 

I agree with you, a friend of mines dad is a houston police officer and agrees with some of these racial/regional sentiments as well. Now, my point is that a lot of these people have nothing to live for anymore = the crime..Not because of their race.

 

I worked three straight 12 hour shifts at the Astrodome enrolling Katrina evacuee kids in public school. If you only saw 2 white people out of 10,000 you need to go see an eye doctor.

 

good lord

and you guys thought all the gun-toting rednecks were on this side of town(the east side)


HAH

so there

For the record...I dont hear much about this kind of stuff out here unless it makes the news.

I guess since the evacuees skipped over Baytown/Pasadena area and went right on over to yalls area(which wasnt necessarily the safest area of town anyway) we dont have to try to blame the increased crime on anyone.

and yall thought there were no advantages to living out here.

 

Bad estimate to get a point across.....I was NO WHERE near 50/50