Poor Victoria!

".. the head gear on those three dude's is totally out of order."

Palestinians no doubt . And their polygamous wedding approaches , choosing some tasty delicacies before the dancing and gunshots with TNT celebrations. The girl with pistol needs a burqa unless she's at home with her Dad , Dad and Dad.

Dear Is Mise,

Guns are not toys. They are tools.
And the billboard is inappropriate, as well as being a
distraction for drivers at an intersection. A young
girl dressed as Santa holding a gun with the message
"Santa knows what you want for Christmas" would be
the quivalent of a man holding a gun pointed at his
crutch telling us that "Happiness is a warm gun".
Surely this is not something that the community needs
advertised. Small businesses need to be selective
in their messages and where they choose to advertise.
It could well work against their interests.

Here in Melbourne a new medical clinic opened up that
had an advertisement in big letters on a wall facing
traffic at a busy intersection that stated:

"We can fix your erectile disfunction. Come in and
Talk to our experts". I wonder how many males dared to
walk through those front doors?

The same goes for messages about guns. Billboards need
to be done in better taste and be a bit more clever.
And, not a turn off or it defeats the purpose and the
expense spent. I'm surprised the local council allowed
it. The Minister was right in protesting. It did not
serve the community well.

Foxy,

The Minister was in error, as Minister for small businesses she should have had her office contact Gun World and express her and the community concerns, not rush out and start a petition; it was plain old political grandstanding and it's done Gun World a world of good.

Got anything to say against Christmas adds for computer games where killing is the main theme and most of that killing with fully automatic guns? Oh! the fun of Christmas.

I will agree that the billboard could be distracting to motorists but this is true of all billboards, and as billboards are designed to attract attention and each and every vehicle has a driver (at the moment) then billboards are designed to attract drivers and so distract them.

All roadside billboards should be banned.

Dear Is Mise,

I agree that the Minister should have contacted Gun
World. I had assumed that she had.

As for billboards in general -
I like what Ogden Nash had to say:

"I think that I shall never see a billboard
lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all".

Now trees are lovely:
"A radio station in Tucson has taken down a billboard for the Rush Limbaugh show that called Limbaugh a "straight shooter" and was riddled with images of bullet holes.

Clear Channel, the radio giant that owns KNST (790 AM), said the billboard had been up for weeks, but was now inappropriate in the wake of the Tucson shootings...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...n_highway.html"