http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Sebastien-Bassong-pictured-holding-guns.html Apparently posting a picture on the internet, holding a rifle wearing goggles in a licensed firing range is yet another example of idiot footballers posting pictures of themselves holding guns / tattooed guns etc... Anybody else confused?
Apparently Bassong has posted photos of himself with a gun as well! Do these overpaid idiots not get the implications of this- professional sportsmen are role models what do they think young kids will think.
****-wits one and all. Poorly educated dimwits who do not realise the implications of these pictures. Either that or they just don't care.
It maywell be the right attire for what he's doing...but its not a good look to advertise yourself in. Townsend last week, now Naughton, who next!
Big deal. If a youngster was prone to such things do you think they'd be thinking "Kyle poses with a gun I must get one" or "what a prat". If a youngster is not prone to such a thing then they aren't going to really care are they. Unless someone is saying there is something illegal here I really don't get what the fuss is - other than it actually does make him look like a prat.
What's the difference between a kid seeing Naughton Tweet a picture of himself in a gun range and seeing a famous actor holding a gun in a movie poster? Like it or not, kids will find out what guns are and boys, in particular, will play "army men" or "cowboys, or whatever else with sticks or pointing their fingers as guns, if that's okay then how is posting a photo at a gun range supposed to change anything? This isn't even America where they need to be taught about guns from a young age because it's entirely possible that they will come across one at somepoint. Utterly ridiculous reactionary BS from the Fail.
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Whilst the concept of firearms might not be a good example for kids I see nothing wrong in what Naughton has done in his spare time. So can a footballer not go shooting in the season for grouse or pheasant? Olympic games shooting competitions are on the television. Army ads etc. There's even a cowboy society somewhere. Sorry I see nothing wrong.
I don't get what the problem is with Naughton's photo? He's at a shooting range having some organised fun, in an area which is designed to be as safe as possible. As a society we look to things like this as a way of blaming what really comes down to bad parenting. The computer game "grand theft auto" has been blamed for years. Well, it's rated 18... so don't buy it for your child.
Kyle Naughton caught posing in a completely legitimate and legal shooting range... jeez I've been shooting, and like him quite fancied a pic of me with a shotgun as it's not an everyday thing. The others are just wanabe gangster idiots. I mean, Bassong apears to be in his mums backgarden?
Daily Fail. Written and read by ****s. I do like to read the reader's comments though. So bitter and twisted it is hilarious. And like looking at the pictures of hot celeb (z list) chicks.
Thing is, the had no problem posting an article by that obnoxious bitch Samantha Brick who thought she was god's gift, complaining about the back lash she was getting alongside a picture of her with her hubby toting a shotgun which was a **** of a load more intimidating and just plain wrong than daft ****ing footballers. That's Fail logic.
The issue is young men are acquiring guns and killing each other. They are almost exclusively from the community these young footballers come from. Look at the contrast between them and Rio Ferdinand, (who I am no fan of.) At least he feels some responsibility for the community he grew up in. Don't think pictures like this are of no consequence. They are. I am also no fan of the Mail. Their "outraged" coverage of everything that doesn't conform to their comfortable middle class stereotype is hysterical and ridiculous. This is an issue though, that needs people in positions to influence young men, just like Naughton, to make a stand and dissociate themselves from guns completely, at least in public.
It's about time we held newspapers responsible for the outcome of their views influencing children with no free will (eg claiming to be a family paper yet having barely clad men and women, agony aunts, sex services adverts and gambling tips)
Good post, footballers should be responsible in front of the people who watch them. The reasons given above that he's done no wrong because of other film/game advertising is fair enough, but Chirpy is right to point out that that is no reason to think 'oh sod it I'll just do this anyway, the kids have seen it all before'. Its a bit 'after the horse has bolted', but is still the right thing to do if we're honest.
The right thing to do is make children aware that, despite what a lot of adults think, they DO have free will (instead of being robots) and do not have to copy famous people.
