(10-02-2024, 08:53 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote: making guns brightly coloured gives the 'illegal 3d printed ghost gun' feel. wouldnt help


the reason guns with wooden furniture, revolvers, etc are treated with more acceptance is because theyre percieved to be old and therefore less effective


but why would gun manufacturers change to appease groups of people with zero experience of understanding of firearms? if anything, they would market towards people that want a scary/tactical/whatever looking gun


if its to 'make liberals more comfortable', then good luck, because the overton window will continue shifting until all guns are banned

(10-02-2024, 09:09 PM)fdeshieldplus Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 08:53 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote: making guns brightly coloured gives the 'illegal 3d printed ghost gun' feel. wouldnt help


the reason guns with wooden furniture, revolvers, etc are treated with more acceptance is because theyre percieved to be old and therefore less effective


but why would gun manufacturers change to appease groups of people with zero experience of understanding of firearms? if anything, they would market towards people that want a scary/tactical/whatever looking gun


if its to 'make liberals more comfortable', then good luck, because the overton window will continue shifting until all guns are banned

my whole thing is that i'm getting so tired of guns trying to look scary and intimidating, i would like it so i can pull a gun out and it'll just be treated like any other appliance. we need to make guns truly a common fixture of everyday life

(10-02-2024, 10:31 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 09:09 PM)fdeshieldplus Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 08:53 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote: making guns brightly coloured gives the 'illegal 3d printed ghost gun' feel. wouldnt help


the reason guns with wooden furniture, revolvers, etc are treated with more acceptance is because theyre percieved to be old and therefore less effective


but why would gun manufacturers change to appease groups of people with zero experience of understanding of firearms? if anything, they would market towards people that want a scary/tactical/whatever looking gun


if its to 'make liberals more comfortable', then good luck, because the overton window will continue shifting until all guns are banned

my whole thing is that i'm getting so tired of guns trying to look scary and intimidating, i would like it so i can pull a gun out and it'll just be treated like any other appliance. we need to make guns truly a common fixture of everyday life

most appliances cant kill someone with the pull of a trigger... dont say youd treat someone walking along holding a gun the same way you would with someone walking along holding a screwdriver. 

how are guns trying to look scary? glock 19 for example, pretty much as bare bones and functional as any other tool

(10-02-2024, 10:37 PM)slop Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:31 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 09:09 PM)fdeshieldplus Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 08:53 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote: making guns brightly coloured gives the 'illegal 3d printed ghost gun' feel. wouldnt help


the reason guns with wooden furniture, revolvers, etc are treated with more acceptance is because theyre percieved to be old and therefore less effective


but why would gun manufacturers change to appease groups of people with zero experience of understanding of firearms? if anything, they would market towards people that want a scary/tactical/whatever looking gun


if its to 'make liberals more comfortable', then good luck, because the overton window will continue shifting until all guns are banned

my whole thing is that i'm getting so tired of guns trying to look scary and intimidating, i would like it so i can pull a gun out and it'll just be treated like any other appliance. we need to make guns truly a common fixture of everyday life

most appliances cant kill someone with the pull of a trigger... dont say youd treat someone walking along holding a gun the same way you would with someone walking along holding a screwdriver. 

how are guns trying to look scary? glock 19 for example, pretty much as bare bones and functional as any other tool

don't be obtuse. if that pistol was lime green like a nerf gun it would have a totally different emotional effect

tbf, i dont think them being other colors would be "less scary" but just seem more dark humor or macabre, which is in a way even more scarier. at least with colors like this guns are being honest

(10-02-2024, 10:50 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:37 PM)slop Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:31 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 09:09 PM)fdeshieldplus Wrote: my whole thing is that i'm getting so tired of guns trying to look scary and intimidating, i would like it so i can pull a gun out and it'll just be treated like any other appliance. we need to make guns truly a common fixture of everyday life

most appliances cant kill someone with the pull of a trigger... dont say youd treat someone walking along holding a gun the same way you would with someone walking along holding a screwdriver. 

how are guns trying to look scary? glock 19 for example, pretty much as bare bones and functional as any other tool

don't be obtuse. if that pistol was lime green like a nerf gun it would have a totally different emotional effect

tbf, i dont think them being other colors would be "less scary" but just seem more dark humor or macabre, which is in a way even more scarier. at least with colors like this guns are being honest

your answer is completely retarded. 

you just said 'dont be obtuse, if the gun was brightly coloured... it would be even scarier'. 

yeah, so my point is completely valid. the gun is extremely plain, simple, and black. other colours would look strange and wouldnt be fitting - generally dangerous tools arent coloured like kids toys.

i said the gun isnt 'trying to look scary'. obviously the bare bones shape isnt. and if youre trying to say the colour is, would you say this is trying to look scary?



obviously not. guns are just 'scary' (to neurotic retards/women) because they are dangerous

(10-02-2024, 10:56 PM)slop Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:50 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:37 PM)slop Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:31 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote: most appliances cant kill someone with the pull of a trigger... dont say youd treat someone walking along holding a gun the same way you would with someone walking along holding a screwdriver. 

how are guns trying to look scary? glock 19 for example, pretty much as bare bones and functional as any other tool

don't be obtuse. if that pistol was lime green like a nerf gun it would have a totally different emotional effect

tbf, i dont think them being other colors would be "less scary" but just seem more dark humor or macabre, which is in a way even more scarier. at least with colors like this guns are being honest

your answer is completely retarded. 

you just said 'dont be obtuse, if the gun was brightly coloured... it would be even scarier'. 

yeah, so my point is completely valid. the gun is extremely plain, simple, and black. other colours would look strange and wouldnt be fitting - generally dangerous tools arent coloured like kids toys.

i said the gun isnt 'trying to look scary'. obviously the bare bones shape isnt. and if youre trying to say the colour is, would you say this is trying to look scary?



obviously not. guns are just 'scary' (to neurotic retards/women) because they are dangerous

The third sentence was not responding to you in particular

(10-02-2024, 11:03 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:56 PM)slop Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:50 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:37 PM)slop Wrote: don't be obtuse. if that pistol was lime green like a nerf gun it would have a totally different emotional effect

tbf, i dont think them being other colors would be "less scary" but just seem more dark humor or macabre, which is in a way even more scarier. at least with colors like this guns are being honest

your answer is completely retarded. 

you just said 'dont be obtuse, if the gun was brightly coloured... it would be even scarier'. 

yeah, so my point is completely valid. the gun is extremely plain, simple, and black. other colours would look strange and wouldnt be fitting - generally dangerous tools arent coloured like kids toys.

i said the gun isnt 'trying to look scary'. obviously the bare bones shape isnt. and if youre trying to say the colour is, would you say this is trying to look scary?



obviously not. guns are just 'scary' (to neurotic retards/women) because they are dangerous

The third sentence was not responding to you in particular

makes no difference, if its true then it affects the initial claim. how does it change anything if its not directed at me?

(10-02-2024, 11:09 PM)slop Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 11:03 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:56 PM)slop Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 10:50 PM)Ridiculously Likeable Wrote: your answer is completely retarded. 

you just said 'dont be obtuse, if the gun was brightly coloured... it would be even scarier'. 

yeah, so my point is completely valid. the gun is extremely plain, simple, and black. other colours would look strange and wouldnt be fitting - generally dangerous tools arent coloured like kids toys.

i said the gun isnt 'trying to look scary'. obviously the bare bones shape isnt. and if youre trying to say the colour is, would you say this is trying to look scary?



obviously not. guns are just 'scary' (to neurotic retards/women) because they are dangerous

The third sentence was not responding to you in particular

makes no difference, if its true then it affects the initial claim. how does it change anything if its not directed at me?

What is your initial claim? post 4? If anything, it would vaguely be in accord with what you said.

(10-02-2024, 11:50 PM)slop Wrote: I agree with Ridiculously Likeable that  guns are scary much more because of their functional than aesthetic aspects. Although form and function are never wholly separated. Even the most purely functional appearing weapons have their own kind of aesthetic appeal. Black is a Masc King color and gun owners are mostly Masc Kings so they need to appeal to them. The manufacturers are lucky the materials used to make guns are already Masc King colors so they don't have to spend money making them these colors so they can channel the classically masculine (non)aesthetic of "i don't care how things look like girls do its all about being functional teehee. the guns black and it just kind of happened that way, see how much we don't care about appearances? see? look, don't you see? please look." Can you imagine a 50yo boomer in rural iowa picking up a lavender or pistachio ar15 or glock (assuming for whatever reason this was the default color of the weapon)? or even a "neutral" nonblack color like white? No, because he'd feel like he's being emasculated and that's the worst thing that could happen to him. Regardless of how well the gun works. Especially with guns. Guns are cocks. Changing their color would get you more resistance from gun owners than acceptance from liberalsoycucks, who would think it's some kind of bizarre joke. he wouldn't pick up that gun for the same reason that he makes fun of prettyboys and (semi)deliberately buys clothes that do not fit well, just so he can then go through the ritual of his wife going to her girl friends and being "i need to dress my husband since he can't do it himself teehee." For some Masc King gun owners, if the gun has any kind of attention to detail that seems to go beyond just a pure concern for its functionality, he'll be put off, which ultimately betrays an aesthetic obsession of his own. Regardless of how well it actually functions. I'm being hyperbolic, but you get the point.


this gun could be the most well oiled machine in the world, doing better than all similar firearms by 50% and not come in any other designs or colors, and most gun owners would not lay a finger on it. they wouldn't even pick it up ironically