Friday, February 13, 2009

Happy Valentine's Day?

Oh, the Midwest...

News from Wisconsin:

It's an unusual combination. Buy a pair of diamond earrings, get a free gun.

General Coin and Gun Exchange owner Brian Zinn says since "guys like guns and girls like diamonds," he would "mesh the two together this year."

He says some wives have been sending their husbands into the store to take advantage of the 'bang bling' deal.

Zinn says if you buy a $400 pair of diamond earrings, you can pick any gun in the store worth under $300.

The free gun deal runs through Valentine's Day.

I'm rather amused by how quintessentially American this is: a seamless combination of stereotypical gender roles, heteronormativity, excessive capitalism... and (bonus!) violence.

1 comment:

Steve said...

Hey now, guns are not inherently violent. Although, I'm not sure there's any gun out there that I would actually want that costs less than $300 at this point.