Are you comfortable wearing the "Choices" shirt?

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  • KC2917
    KC2917 Posts: 872
    YourDirtisMyfood wrote:
    With gun control and post Sandy Hook scrutiny in the news as a hot topic, does that influence whether you still wear the shirt or not?

    If I still had that shirt (my first PJ shirt BTW), I'd be wearing the fuck out of it right now. To me, that's the point of it. It's more relevant now than it ever was.
  • crazygeo
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  • bk159954
    bk159954 Posts: 166
    I still have and wear the original....sparingly because it's starting to get pretty worn out. I love that it has lasted this long and the neck isn't stretched out after this many years.
  • Mango
    Mango Brisbane, Australia (via Dublin, Ireland) Posts: 1,049
    Sweet. I still have my original but its wraped up and put away in my nostalgia box. I hope the moths haven't got it :|
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  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    Still wear mine. It's so faded you can barely make out the image and lettering on the front.
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Dr. Delight wrote:
    Still wear mine. It's so faded you can barely make out the image and lettering on the front.
    ha..i have the original and the one they sell here..i think says 1992 in small letter under the foto..need to find in the chaos pj shirt closet i have here
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  • oceaninmyeyes
    oceaninmyeyes Posts: 4,646
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Dr. Delight wrote:
    Still wear mine. It's so faded you can barely make out the image and lettering on the front.
    ha..i have the original and the one they sell here..i think says 1992 in small letter under the foto..need to find in the chaos pj shirt closet i have here
    You need to speak to those maids. They need to straighten that chaos out for you. :lol:
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  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,876
    MJK1889 wrote:
    I prefer the WMA shirt, a powerful statement made in a subtle way. And it's a cool design.

    Love this shirt but it shrank drastically, probably now a Sunday aka don't leave the house all day shirt. As for the OP, I DO NOT wear it to the park with my kid anymore. I had some creepy ass looking guy ask me what it means like 20 times. The type of guy that was baiting me just to show me he carried, although in Arizona everyone carries it just has to be out in the open like in a holster, anyway this was right after the President's speech and I didn't want to bring harm to any kids just because some A-hole is offended by a tshirt. Oh Well. I wear anywhere else though, but I did prefer the original with green words on the back as opposed to the yellow.
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  • STAYSEA
    STAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    I bought a XXL for a friend. He decided to take the Zombie shirt instead.
    Now I just have it in the plastic in a box. I can't even sell it because it shows up in goods. I have no idea what to do with it?

    I'm comfortable wearing the choices shirt (if it was my size), and my NRA trucker hat together. It makes people wonder, and not ask me questions.

    (I am not comfortable wearing my Johnny Cash shirt, I always have to ask if it's okay before I do :( )
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  • STAYSEA
    STAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    andyzoffhegoes wrote:
    Wearing it now.
    I just realized I'm also wearing a PJ shirt right now
    From 2008? It's not a favorite but it's comfy.
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  • Mango
    Mango Brisbane, Australia (via Dublin, Ireland) Posts: 1,049
    Foriginal Sin wrote:
    ...although in Arizona everyone carries it just has to be out in the open like in a holster, anyway this was right after the President's speech and I didn't want to bring harm to any kids just because some A-hole is offended by a tshirt. Oh Well....

    Sounds like another planet to me. Very alien.
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  • 3legged dog
    3legged dog Posts: 896
    My thoughts on this issue: everyone has a right to be anti or pro gun. Seems to me that law abiding gun owners don't commit gun crimes because they want to retain the right to defend their families and property and don't want to rot in jail hence "law abiding". The real issue is making laws for criminals since they don't obey laws of any kind. I have yet to hear or see any federal law maker put forth a law for illegal possession of any type of gun. I know in massachusetts is 18 months. I live in the city and their is a lot of gang bangers that flaunt their signs, graffiti and are open about their thug life. They have no fear because 18 months in house of corrections is a cake walk for these individuals. If they were to get a minimum of 6 years for illegal that would be a good deterrent for them to be carrying them in public. If this issue was about safety then school buses would have seat belts, they do not. The govt can not control criminals, only law abiding citizens. VP went on tv and said he instructed his wife to grab her shotgun and shot two rounds in the air to scare intruders. Well this advice is illegal and you would go to jail for this advice and probably harm your neighbors as the bullets would randomly fall on your neighbors. The only way for gun control to be affective is to target criminals. Colombine happened five years after the Clinton assault weapons ban was in affect. I understand people who are anti gun, most are not educated on guns and probably never shot one but the law abiding citizen will not be a threat to you, the criminal thug will be. I just don't see the logic of how our govt will send tanks, automatic guns, f16's and missiles to Eygpt to use on their own people and neighbors but law abiding citizens in America can't have a certain number of bullets in their gun. We all just need to come to a fair and reasonable agreement on what laws will stop criminals and mad men. Mental health can be reformed by the pharmaceutical companies to stop making drugs for depressed people that side affects cause suicidal thoughts, that could be a good start. Maybe start there instead of demonizing marajuana users which is a natural medicine. :mrgreen:
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  • beachbelle
    beachbelle Posts: 95
    I still wear my Choices tee because it's decidedly anti-gun (as the back of mine reads that kids prefer crayons over guns). I understand some ppl not wanting to wear it because of backlash from others, though.
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  • MG79478
    MG79478 Posts: 1,727
    beachbelle wrote:
    I still wear my Choices tee because it's decidedly anti-gun (as the back of mine reads that kids prefer crayons over guns). I understand some ppl not wanting to wear it because of backlash from others, though.

    Can someone explain this shirt to me? Kids prefer cookies to broccoli, so I don't really see the point to the shirt.
  • rearviewross
    rearviewross Posts: 3,055
    MG79478 wrote:
    beachbelle wrote:
    I still wear my Choices tee because it's decidedly anti-gun (as the back of mine reads that kids prefer crayons over guns). I understand some ppl not wanting to wear it because of backlash from others, though.

    Can someone explain this shirt to me? Kids prefer cookies to broccoli, so I don't really see the point to the shirt.

    I think the idea is that violence and more directly relating to the shirt, gun violence and use is not natural. It is instilled in us through media and people around us. Kind of like racism. That is my interpretation of what they are trying to say.
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  • meveret
    meveret Posts: 110
    I own it and I appreciate the message and the design but I never wear it. Most people wouldn't get it and it is really in your face. They also had a shirt in the mid 90s with a starving kid on the front and the back has the american flag and I don't wear that one either! Don't know if any of you remember that one.
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  • rearviewross
    rearviewross Posts: 3,055
    meveret wrote:
    I own it and I appreciate the message and the design but I never wear it. Most people wouldn't get it and it is really in your face. They also had a shirt in the mid 90s with a starving kid on the front and the back has the american flag and I don't wear that one either! Don't know if any of you remember that one.

    I never bought it because I thought it was ugly. ;)
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  • Gizzo
    Gizzo Posts: 53
    My Mom doesn't like it so I don't wear it around her. I'm 48 - haha.
  • Ty
    Ty Posts: 1,007
    I imagine someone not comfortable wearing the shirt wouldn't have bought it in the first place, unless they are a completist collector.

    You Americans and your guns... I will never understand. Australia has so little gun violence because we have tough gun laws. Only farmers need guns. Sportsmen too, yes. But you don't need a gun at home. :fp:
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