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11-22-2006, 11:36 AM
By Stacey Burling
Inquirer Staff Writer
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CLEM MURRAY / Inquirer
The Philadelphia-based company, Urban Outfitters, is selling a plastic gun Christmas tree ornament this year for $6.
Nothing says Christmas quite like a glittery black handgun hanging from the tree.
Urban Outfitters Inc. - no stranger to controversial products - is offering the 5-inch-long, Chinese-made gun ornament for $6 in its stores and catalogs this year.
"Bust a cap in your tree with this superglittery ornament in the shape of a handgun, complete with a satin ribbon for hanging," the online description of the revolver says. It is meant, the retailer says, as an "ironic twist" on the holidays.
"Twisted" is more like it, said Kate Philips, Gov. Rendell's spokeswoman. "The governor doesn't find it humorous or clever to display weapons that are responsible for taking hundreds of lives each year as if they are decorations," she said.
Give me a break! It's an ornament for crying out loud. Besides, I could swear I've seen car ornaments before, and cars take way more lives each year than guns do. Where's the outrage about car ornaments on Christmas trees?
A gun is a tool, nothing more or less.
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/images/philly/inquirer/16069/258221019466.jpg
CLEM MURRAY / Inquirer
The Philadelphia-based company, Urban Outfitters, is selling a plastic gun Christmas tree ornament this year for $6.
Nothing says Christmas quite like a glittery black handgun hanging from the tree.
Urban Outfitters Inc. - no stranger to controversial products - is offering the 5-inch-long, Chinese-made gun ornament for $6 in its stores and catalogs this year.
"Bust a cap in your tree with this superglittery ornament in the shape of a handgun, complete with a satin ribbon for hanging," the online description of the revolver says. It is meant, the retailer says, as an "ironic twist" on the holidays.
"Twisted" is more like it, said Kate Philips, Gov. Rendell's spokeswoman. "The governor doesn't find it humorous or clever to display weapons that are responsible for taking hundreds of lives each year as if they are decorations," she said.
Give me a break! It's an ornament for crying out loud. Besides, I could swear I've seen car ornaments before, and cars take way more lives each year than guns do. Where's the outrage about car ornaments on Christmas trees?
A gun is a tool, nothing more or less.