What? I don't see anything funny at all about this.
This is the Olympics! Crew served weapons are a category!
Posted on 06/08/2012 11:54:00 PM PDT by LibWhacker
(CNN) -- Two Australian Olympic swimmers who posted pictures on Facebook of themselves brandishing weapons have been ordered to take them down by the country's swimming authorities.
The image, taken in a gun shop in Santa Clara, California, showed Nick D'Arcy with two pistols standing next to Kenrick Monk who is holding two shotguns across his chest, according to a Friday report in Australia's Herald Sun. The swimmers were training in the U.S. ahead of the Olympic Games in London later this year.
Swimming Australia said in a statement that it does not condone "the posting of inappropriate content on Facebook, Twitter or any social media platform."
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There’s a multitude of things the PC western world needs to fear more than guns in the hands of peaceful law-abiding citizens. The collective lack of a spine for one.
Of course they wouldn’t bat an eye if the photos were graphic homosexual poses.
Comments are mostly our side except one snide bitch
Encouraging for CNN readers
What? I don't see anything funny at all about this.
This is the Olympics! Crew served weapons are a category!
What a puss. They should go back home, kick his ass, then come back here and ask for asylum. Most Americans appreciate the boys who can bring home the gold and wouldn't go all gay over a couple of guys posing with guns.
it does not condone “the posting of inappropriate content on Facebook, Twitter or any social media platform
Then STFU since there was nothing inappropriate about the photos..
Bunch of whiney little girls.........
Holding two shotguns. What a disgusting picture. He should be ashamed. I would be embarrassed if that was my photo.
They should have been AR15s. With drum mags! And bandoliers of 5.56mm rounds. Or at least a pair of Uzis. For heavens sake man, have some respect with a decent photo of 2 assault weapons.
While these guys are a pair of tools and arguably shouldn’t be representing Australia (for other reasons), this is as weak as piss by the Australia Olympic Committee. Posing with legally available weapons!! ZOMG!!111eleventy!!
What will the Committee do if members of the Australian Olympic Shooting team post photos of themselves next to a swimming pool?
It makes me cringe for our country in all honesty.This story is all over the airwaves here.Wall to wall outrage.
complaint laid by anti gun activist, two young kids just hamming it up, wonder if she (the lefty anti gun lobbyist)would complain long and hard about Australia’s shooting squad for the Olympics Team , yes it is an Olympic Sport, and yes you have to hold guns and often pose with them Jeeeeesh!
Posing with legally available weapons!!
Well, ah, that's the thing. You see, in Australia...
What will the Committee do if members of the Australian Olympic Shooting team post photos of themselves next to a swimming pool?
Need more information. Is there a standards-compliant fence around the pool? Was the proper permit obtained for filling the pool? The correct taxes paid for development approval to build the thing in the first place? Wouldn't want to encourage law-breaking behavior (think of the impoverished drowning children!).
Even with the USA having a more reasonable view on individual gun ownership...there would have been the same outcry from the gun control groups in this country if two of our prominent Olympians were posing with weapons.
There are a lot of gun hysterics in the USA, too, unfortunately. However, there are quite many reasonable people, like here on FreeRepublic
The people who push this are statists, who believe that only the state should be able to use force. They like the idea of the state as an all powerful entity without limit.
The State is their god.
Crooks always object to firearms in the hands of others...
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