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Who would be disgusting enough to try and capitalize on a triple homicide, especially when one of the victims was only 7 years old? A. John Peters, that's who. Peters is the president of Home Back-Up Protection, which manufacturers the perfect Christmas gift for the paranoid gun nut -- a shotgun rack for your bed. Yesterday, the company sent out a press release pondering if their product could have prevented the Hudson family murders:
Tragedy strikes in a Chicago home leaving 3 people dead and an Oscar winner forced to identify the bodies of her family. Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother were gunned down in their home Friday. Could an invaluable device have saved their lives? It’s called The BackUp and it is a bedside shotgun rack.Whether it is someone known or a stranger entering the home, too many people in this country are paying with their lives during these home invasions. The Hudson family is just one of far too many Americans gunned down in their own home.
Peters told the Tribune that he wasn't trying to exploit a horrible situation, he "just [didn't] want this to happen to someone else. Sometimes I think people need to be hit between the eyes."
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i can think of someone i'd like to hit between the eyes.
Great idea, but I just carry my shotgun around the house all of the time. Messed up times, yo!
Applying some logic to this skidmark of a human being, something he does not deserve, the Hudson's weren't shot in their beds by all accounts. And the young child was murdered in a car. How would this petri dish of a man's little "invention" (which is essentially, a fucking HOOK) have helped anyone?
It wouldn't.
People who cash in on murder are beneath contempt.
I hope he's driven out of business, into the desert and eaten by jackals.
Not to mention, this was a domestic dispute. That's totally different than if a stranger came into your house...in which case, everyone knows that the best deterrent to that is a dog.
Plus it's a really badly written press release.
You would also need one for the under the dining room table, the kitchen counter, behind the toilet, and under the La-Z-Boy. You could have quite a shootout when the Jaws of Josh breaks into your house.
Ugh.
So would vigorous lovemaking make the shotgun go off, thereby ending a bang with a bang?
Great product design! Even better advertising. Looks like it is designed to hold the shotgun at a child accessible level and to be used as intended the gun would be loaded and with out a trigger lock. In addition, what about when Jimbo comes stumbling into bed after a few to many and knocks the gun off the rack?
Here is my million dollar idea I will share with all of you:
A clock radio that has a recording of a shotgun being cocked. All you have to do is press a button and it plays the recording. Any robber or rapist will quickly get the idea to retreat when they hear that noise. Effective but with out the chance shooting your family member.
"just [didn't] want this to happen to someone else..."
I'm looking for the sentence in the article that says, "all of the company's proceeds during the month of November will be donated to violence prevention and after school programs for at risk youth." Hmrph, can't find it.
They changed the press release due to complaints and took out the immediate reference to Jennifer Hudson. There's still a mention in it though.
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/bedside-shotgun-rack-4093.html