"Think Protecting Your Turf Without a 9mm is Tough ? " New Florida billboard w/pics

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Posted: 10/4/2005 8:52:15 AM EDT

Had to take a picture of this earlier. I get the feeling it is directed towards gangbanger type thugs but it kind of bothers me since it happened to get put up right when the new self-defense law took effect. Looks like the Florida District Attorney, Governor and DOC sponsored it. I wanted to get a picture of me standing by it holding a .45 and type in "Try doing it without your .45" to answer the question but there is a steady stream of traffic going by at all times.

That handgun looks kinda like a Colt 1903 or some other Colt. Any idea what it is ?

Posted: 10/4/2005 8:55:02 AM EDT

[#1]

airsoft? Whats the crap in the barrel?

Posted: 10/4/2005 8:57:27 AM EDT

[#2]

Federal prison???

WTF is that billboard supposed to be saying?

I don't get it?

Posted: 10/4/2005 8:57:49 AM EDT

[#3]

Is that the pistol used in "Heat"?

Posted: 10/4/2005 8:58:29 AM EDT

[#4]

Look at the bottom front of the grip--no mag either...

Silly bangers, unloaded guns are paperweights! They should be loaded, round in the chamber and then stuffed in the front of you pants!

Posted: 10/4/2005 8:59:03 AM EDT

[#5]

That's a toy gun. I can see the seam from the mold all along the centerline.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:00:03 AM EDT

[#6]

We have mandatory laws for gun crimes, but not child molestation

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:01:52 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
That's a toy gun. I can see the seam from the mold all along the centerline.

I think you're right. I guess a real one would be way too dangerous to take pictures of

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:03:42 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Federal prison???

WTF is that billboard supposed to be saying?

I don't get it?

It's Florida's 10/20/Life law.
Ten years if you have a gun and commit a crime, 20 years if you use it in the crime and life if you shoot someone.
There are posters like that all over, not that specific one but like that.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:04:21 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
That's a toy gun. I can see the seam from the mold all along the centerline.

I think you're right. I guess a real one would be way too dangerous to take pictures of

What if it got pissed off when you took its picture?

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:05:34 AM EDT

[#10]

I just saw your governor defending the new gun laws on fox. He was quite pissed about the Brady Bunch of idiots handing out leaflets in the airports down there. What a bunch of morons.

I think this billboard is aimed at thugs/gang bangers.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:06:38 AM EDT

[#11]

Looks like the Feds are the lead off agency on that ad. Federal prosecution of some of the inner city drug gangs in upstate NY on gun charges has supposedly been effective. The little turds get sent off to some prison in North Dakota or somewhere, instead of to an upstate NY prison where babies' momma and flock canmove to that town, get on welfare and visit regularly, plus it's not "old home day" with the guys from the neighborhood back home like it sometimes is in a NY state prison.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:08:56 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Federal prison???

WTF is that billboard supposed to be saying?

I don't get it?

Its refering to the enhanced penalties passed by Congress for "gun" crime. Its ostensibly a warning to the gangbangers.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:10:13 AM EDT

[#13]

So if you have a gun at home and you do something criminal and completely unrelated like say somebody assaults you and you fight back but get charged/convicted of assault, you can get 10 years in jail?

Or does it have to be on your person?

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:11:15 AM EDT

[#14]

If it were really directed at gangstas, shouldn't it have been a Glock Foty?

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:12:07 AM EDT

[#15]

Is this sign written in ebonics? The wording makes little sense to me.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:32:09 AM EDT

[#16]

These billboards have been around for a good while, a year or better. Project Safe Neighborhoods prosecutes gangstas on a federal level for gun crime. Thugs go to a Federal prision, mandatory minimum sentencing applies, no plea bargains, Feds pay for the incarceration instead of the State. It's still the option of the State to prosecute on a Federal level. Usually reserved for the worst offenders. FL still has a 10/20/Life policy.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:36:59 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
If it were really directed at gangstas, shouldn't it have been a Glock Foty?

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:39:14 AM EDT

[#18]

I wanted to get a picture of me standing by it holding a .45 and type in "Try doing it without your .45" to answer the question but there is a steady stream of traffic going by at all times.

Where the hell is this sign?? Shit, make a big poster board and stand next to it.

Posted: 10/4/2005 9:39:38 AM EDT

[#19]

"Hey, criminal! Crimes are against the law!"

Posted: 10/4/2005 10:26:02 AM EDT

[#20]

Ok I fixed it

Posted: 10/4/2005 10:32:58 AM EDT

[#21]

I've got a better idea for a billboard.

"Don't break the law, or you're ass is grass"

Why do we do this gun shit?
Like, oh yea, the gun is really the problem.
Bullshit.

Posted: 10/4/2005 10:39:47 AM EDT

[#22]

This is very close along the lines of how WI ended up with an Anti-gun Governor.

When all the tobacco lawsuit pay outs were divied up amongst the States, our AG at the time, Jim "The Veto-nator" Doyle, determined that the best way to spend most of it was on anti-smoking billboards. He turned into an effective vehicle of self-promotion.

These things were freaking EVERYWHERE! And of course, at the bottom of each communtiy service message, in big, bold letters: "This message brought to you by Attorney General Jim Doyle (Now, all you people croaking from cancer hurry up and kick, bitches)"

Posted: 10/4/2005 10:45:40 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
If it were really directed at gangstas, shouldn't it have been a Glock Foty?

Quoted:
Is this sign written in ebonics? The wording makes little sense to me.

Actually it is in a way. Note the use of "your turf."

Posted: 10/4/2005 10:55:22 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Ok I fixed it

photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/Attachments/DownloadAttach.asp?iImageUnq=42015

Thank You!

-Foxxz

Posted: 10/4/2005 10:59:58 AM EDT

[#25]

This sounds like a Project Exile type program.

Which worked...

- BG

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:17:51 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
This sounds like a Project Exile type program.

Which worked...

- BG

Exactly, VA pioneered project exile. Use a gun in a crime and it's a Federal offense. I'm good with that.

Bomber

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:18:35 AM EDT

[#27]

I am not sure what the hell that billboard is saying.

"You think it is tough to defend your turf without a 9mm? How about you try to defend your turf without a 9mm from a federal prison!"

Huh...? Did that even make sense to the makers?

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:20:24 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
If it were really directed at gangstas, shouldn't it have been a Glock Foty?

only if it was turned sideways

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:21:19 AM EDT

[#29]

The gun on the billboard is a colt. I have one that looks just like it. 1908 Vest pocket model. .25 cal, hammerless. Mine was made in 1912.

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:36:25 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
I am not sure what the hell that billboard is saying.

It doesn't make any sense at all ... If you try to protect yourself, but don't have a 9mm, then you go to jail and it will be harder to protect yourself?

Well, FUCK ... I better gets me a gun, if they're going to throw me in jail for not havin one.

Posted: 10/4/2005 11:51:29 AM EDT

[#31]

OH-that's going to stop a homey cold in his tracks. . . . . . .Give me a break-it's so easy to tell these stupid things are designed by white, uppity, suburban soccer moms who have never been to the hood. What a joke.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:21:39 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
The gun on the billboard is a colt. I have one that looks just like it. 1908 Vest pocket model. .25 cal, hammerless. Mine was made in 1912.

Time to see Mr. Optometrist for a new prescription.

Posted: 10/4/2005 12:23:00 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
The gun on the billboard is a colt. I have one that looks just like it. 1908 Vest pocket model. .25 cal, hammerless. Mine was made in 1912.

Time to see Mr. Optometrist for a new prescription.

Unless yur 1908 is the new plastic version...

Posted: 10/4/2005 2:05:55 PM EDT

[#34]

I am the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to defend my turf.

Posted: 10/4/2005 2:13:05 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
www.unoriginal.co.uk/footage/30_1.GIF
I am the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to defend my turf.

Posted: 10/4/2005 4:29:21 PM EDT

[#36]

I really just didn't like the wording myself. It could have mentioned some where in the big print that it was addressing ILLEGAL activity. I'm just being nit-picky anyway, most people probably don't pay these signs much attention.

Posted: 10/4/2005 6:54:46 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
These billboards have been around for a good while, a year or better. Project Safe Neighborhoods prosecutes gangstas on a federal level for gun crime. Thugs go to a Federal prision, mandatory minimum sentencing applies, no plea bargains, Feds pay for the incarceration instead of the State. It's still the option of the State to prosecute on a Federal level. Usually reserved for the worst offenders. FL still has a 10/20/Life policy.

And as noted when prosecuted by the Feds they can send yah to the Fed Prison in West Bumfuck Nowhere, halfway across the country. Some guys think time in a local joint is doable, getting shipped to Boron isn't that great.

Posted: 10/4/2005 6:59:54 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Quoted:
These billboards have been around for a good while, a year or better. Project Safe Neighborhoods prosecutes gangstas on a federal level for gun crime. Thugs go to a Federal prision, mandatory minimum sentencing applies, no plea bargains, Feds pay for the incarceration instead of the State. It's still the option of the State to prosecute on a Federal level. Usually reserved for the worst offenders. FL still has a 10/20/Life policy.

And as noted when prosecuted by the Feds they can send yah to the Fed Prison in West Bumfuck Nowhere, halfway across the country. Some guys think time in a local joint is doable, getting shipped to Boron isn't that great.

The prosecution's focus on guns is as silly as hate crimes.