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Paper AK-47 is the closest thing art students will ever get to an automatic weapon
This paper AK-47 has good intentions. According to the item description at the A+R Store, its raison d'être is to remove the gun's function by making it completely nonlethal. Since it's made of just $42 of construction paper, the paper AK-47 makes you think about the power of form, iconography, and how the mere shape of an object can influence how people see it and the person who wields it.
All worthy of some freshman art student's final project in Touchy Feely BS 101, to be sure, though if the person being influenced by the AK-47 is a cop, and you're carrying this thing on a street corner, the only possible interpretation of that work is you dying in a hail of gunfire. Not sure if creator Martin Postler considered that, but in case his instructions don't offer a warning: tread carefully with this thing — and whatever you do, don't paint it black.
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Via A+R Store
By J.R. at 6:19 PM ON 08/26/08
Wow, who close to you got shot to make you the ultimate arbiter of what the police will do when confronted with anything in the shape of a gun?
Being anti-establishment to look cool just makes you look retarded.
By twiddlebug at 7:52 PM ON 08/26/08
actually, J.R. is the one showing ignorance. there are many documented cases of people with (often obviously) toy guns being killed by police. and who can forget Amadou Diallo, shot 19 times by new york police in front of his own apartment, reaching for his wallet. the author's caution is warranted.
By lol at 9:06 PM ON 08/26/08
And you can buy the real thing for about 3x as much second hand :D
And Twidd, no matter how many documented cases there are, JR is still right. Chances are if you walk on the street with this thing a cop might laugh at you, might tell you to put your toy up, might even tase you for the heck of it, but will almost certainly not shoot you. For every idiot who gets shot pointing a toy gun at the cops, a thousand idiots merely get taken to the ground, beaten up a bit, and made somebody's girlfriend in jail.
And yeah, the author pretty clearly is going for the current fad, being anti-american / anti-establishment. But I can surely agree with his dislike of the cops. Street cops abuse their power, forgetting that they are our SERVANTS, not our masters. Homicide looks for someone they can prove guilty, not someone who is guilty. Narcotics beats, harasses, blackmails and entraps good, everyday people for "crimes" which involve no victim or even immorality. ANd then they steal the drugs, do them themselves, and smoke the rest :D
Actually sounds like a pretty plush job :D
By dryden at 12:59 PM ON 08/27/08
"crimes" which involve no victim or even immorality
such as - as ultimately all crimes have victims, whether or not you like them or wish to acknowledge them is different.
Personally, I think all kinds of firearm, be they real or faux create dangerous people with dillusions of grandeur and hightened senses of self-morality and society would be a whole lot better without any form of firearm
By FactChecker at 1:41 PM ON 08/27/08
Giving matter power over the mind makes no sense.
Without any form of firearm, criminals would rule the world. And so law-abiding citizens would either have to die, submit and become living and probably seriously injured victims, or attempt to defend themselves with whatever weapon they were allowed to have by a complicit government, which the criminals would always have a better weapon to defeat.
Handguns are the most effective form of self-defense, stopping 1.9 million crimes per year, and taking them away from law-abiding citizens denies their human rights to life and self-defense, and if I were a prosecutor, I would argue that equals complicity with criminals.
By Holy-Terrorist at 5:27 PM ON 07/08/09
*=*, c'est du bois, pas du papier, j'ai remarquer le truck
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