{"id":1840,"date":"2014-01-24T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/01\/24\/code-pink\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:32","slug":"code-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"Code Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12281,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pantone.com\\\/pages\\\/index.aspx?pg=21129&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230306211644\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.pantone.com\\\/pages\\\/index.aspx?pg=21129&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 10:21:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 15:01:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 15:01:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12282,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.shootingwire.com\\\/features\\\/228427&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.shootingwire.com\\\/features\\\/228427&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12283,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.taurususa.com\\\/team-taurus.cfm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.taurususa.com\\\/team-taurus.cfm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12284,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jessieduff.net\\\/2014\\\/01\\\/taurus-congratulates-jessie-duff-as-uspsa-grand-master&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nJust like everything in Zombie Green, I think the whole &#8220;pink guns for girls&#8221; thing is getting a bit overdone. There is nothing wrong with a woman wanting a gun in pink&#8230;or emerald green or lavender or even in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantone.com\/pages\/index.aspx?pg=21129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pantone color of the year, radiant orchid<\/a>. But to automatically assume that a gun has to be in bubblegum pink to attract female buyers is just utter nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that I&#8217;m not the only one who believes that. My views on pink guns was reinforced by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingwire.com\/features\/228427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column in today&#8217;s Shooting Wire written by Laurel Yashimoto<\/a>. Laurel is a law enforcement officer in Southern California and was a first time attendee at this year&#8217;s SHOT Show. Among her comments about being a first time SHOT Show visitor she said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The only thing that really gave me pause was constantly being handed something pink. <b>My favorite color is green, but being female means that the one pink item in the booth will eventually end up in my hands.<\/b> After a few of these surprising color-coded encounters, I concluded that if it goes, &#8220;bang!&#8221; fast and accurately, I don&#8217;t really care what color it is. <b>It was sweet that men tried to include women by making something in a color they hoped the ladies would like. Kind of like when the birds on the NatGeo do the crazy mating dances. It may not be sexy, but it&#8217;s nice to know guys care.<\/b> And no, much to my disappointment, I did not see a pink weapon mounted lighting system.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the comparison to bird&#8217;s mating dances from the NatGeo channel. Just like some of those mating dances that look rather ridiculous, I think assuming that using pink is the only way to attract a woman to a firearm is equally ridiculous.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think a better way might be to take the example of Taurus and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taurususa.com\/team-taurus.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">build your marketing efforts<\/a> around a strong, confident woman shooter like Jessie Duff. Not only does she have Hollywood starlet good looks but she is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessieduff.net\/2014\/01\/taurus-congratulates-jessie-duff-as-uspsa-grand-master\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USPSA Grand Master shoote<\/a>r. It just seems to me that this would have a better chance of success while really being a lot more respectful of women.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like everything in Zombie Green, I think the whole &#8220;pink guns for girls&#8221; thing is getting a bit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2736,2737,1087],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marketing","tag-pink-guns","tag-the-shooting-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}