Just when you thought the NRA couldn’t get any worse, they promote this product recently released by Zombie Industries: an ‘ex-girlfriend target’. Yes, it’s exactly what it looks like: angry would-be domestic abusers can shoot this target until it bleeds, as opposed to actually harming their spouse or intimate partner. The target, referred to as “the ex,” can be shot repeatedly until it is completely destroyed.
These targets resemble and are referred to as “zombies”. At one point, the company had a line of 15 targets; however, one of them resembled President Barack Obama so much that it was pulled by the NRA.
This seems to be some kind of twisted attempt to minimize domestic violence. In my opinion, though, it almost seems to be normalizing violence against women. I don’t think this will solve the problem at hand at all; if anything, it will only increase violence. These dummies are eerie to me in that they really resemble a real person.
As the article describes, “domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women -- more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.” Furthermore, as the article also states, one third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner.
So, what do you think? Can this dummy minimize violence, or will it only make it more prevalent?
(Danielle Vabner)
I did a blog post on this as well! I think this will just promote more violence towards women. So disgusting and sadly not shocking at all.
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