Apparently part of one of these two shows was filmed at a range down the road from me.
I am going to have to go with Exurban League – Spike TV screwed up. It is unquestionably awesome that these two television shows exist, in that they are normalizing the concept of average American citizens taking the necessary steps the defend themselves and their families, while simultaneously, and hopefully (I have not watched the shows yet, so I am purely speculating on this point), offering some decent, if limited, education for the at-home viewers; however, where was the advertising push, and, more specifically, why was the existance of these shows not propagated out to the cheapest advertising medium in the firearm-related universe – the gunbloggers?
Oh, sure, there are the cut-and-paste press releases from The Outdoor Wire and Shooting Wire, and there is the Don’t Be A Victim webpage, but of the gunblogs I keep track of, I seem to be the first mentioning this show… which means some PR weenie seriously screwed up.
I am certainly not self-absorbed enough to claim us new-media types are the be-all, end-all of the firearm publicity community, but we do reach tens of thousands of potential viewers on a daily basis, and overlooking a free resource like that is kinda dumb.
I actually had a draft typed up about this… then I procrastinated. I gotta work on that… sometime.
The shows are awesome, by the way.
[...] without comments It is unquestionably awesome that these two television shows exist [...] but of the gunblogs I keep track of, I seem to be the first mentioning this show… which means some PR weenie seriously screwed up. — Linoge [...]
Dave mentioned this to me on our most recent episode of the Combatives Podcast and it was the first I had heard of it. There is more video at Ruger’s website:
http://www.ruger.com/micros/DBV/index.html
@Dixie – Good to hear that the shows are decent… definitely seems like an opportunity where a lot could be screwed up, and then passed on to the average American public, which is only going to cause problems for us later on. Hopefully they will keep up the trend
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And, w00t, I finally beat someone to something!
@Rob Robideau – … only I did not beat someone
. I guess that is what I get for not listening to podcasts.
Still, you would think they would want people to watch their show, which would first require people to know about the show. I guess there must be something I am missing
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