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    Komen Foundation offers pink handgun, “Hope Edition”

    The "Hope Edition" Komen pink pistolYesterday, the Susan B. Komen Foundation made national headlines with its controversial decision to pull funding for Planned Parenthood. And now, the foundation has just announced it is reversing its decision and will continue to fund breast cancer screenings with the group.

    To a lot of people this back and forth seems a little random and strange. But there's a clear paper trail you can follow of the increasing political pressures on Komen and the rightward shift the organization has been taking.

    Another, lesser-known aspect of Komen's outreach to the political right can be found here, in their promotion of a pink handgun to promote breast cancer awareness month.

    Komen's pink pistol is not to be confused with the organization the Pink Pistols, a gay-rights organization that supports Second Amendment rights.

    Komen has partnered up with Discount Gun Sales to offer a pink version of its P-22 pistol. An undisclosed portion of each sales will go toward the Seattle branch of Komen. The pistol retails for $429.99.

    The "Hope Edition" pistol is promoted as having "an exclusive DuraCoat Pink slide in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Utilizing the same reliable controls and firing mechanism that has made the Walther P-22 America's top selling handgun, the Hope Edition will be a limited production pistol offered exclusively through Discount Gun Sales."

    Back in December, the Sideshow wrote about how LifeWay Christian Resources pulled its line of Pink Bibles over Komen's support for Planned Parenthood.

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    • gary  •  Hagerstown, Maryland  •  3 mths ago
      What the ----? Komen has been flying under the radar as far as I can see. Are they funding the pistols as anew surgical tool or something? This whole thing is just getting weird.
    • Blake  •  San Diego, California  •  3 mths ago
      I thought this a joke, because it's too weird and not appreciated by those who recognize the danger of firearms. What's the intended message? I can imagine a response to Planed Parenthood but this is totally inappropriate. Death of an organization I supported as much as PP,,,
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        yes firearms are extremely dangerous?????... except when they are are not in individuals hands they just lay there motionless and have no lethality what so ever. Its not the firearms that are dangerous just certain people when they pick them up....same thing can be said for many other items; such as but not limited to vehicles. Vehicles cause way more accidental deaths every year than firearms but I don't hear anyone screaming how dangerous they are or to outlaw them. As with anything if a person is responsible with a vehicle/firearm they are safe however if a person is careless with them they are both dangerous.
    • frank  •  3 mths ago
      when the tea party started to resegregate the south I drew the line
    • frank  •  3 mths ago
      I am repub but will NEVER again support Koman as a political party I will give direct to cancer cause
    • OfficiousSeeingEyeByatch  •  3 mths ago
      Gazillions of dollars are going to this "cure" . . . so when do patients start benefitting?!?!?
    • Robin  •  Sioux Falls, South Dakota  •  3 mths ago
      Ok enough is enough . This has become a racket not a look for the cure
    • Ken  •  3 mths ago
      I really have doubts about this organization even though they reversed their decision not to fund PP....I think PP needs to organize their own fundraising walks. Forgot SK;s group.
    • John L.  •  Maple Grove, Minnesota  •  3 mths ago
      Search for the cause, not the cure. The cure implies funding for corrupt and morally bankrupt big pharma.
      • Mark 3 mths ago
        Isn't that the point?
    • Keith  •  3 mths ago
      Okay folks .. I am all about guns, love 'em. And am all about women's health. And thought VERY highly of SKG. But this, well, this is a bit over the edge. I thought Komen was about the Cure, and the little girl with pink socks running wth all her heart and soul. A great cause gone to whoring
      • Curmudgeon 3 mths ago
        Oh Good Grief! It's just an offering made by Walther to the mutual support of both organizations AND toward encouraging women to take charge of their own lives! Get a grip on it, Man! Just as a boy learns to hold the power of a gun in his hands when he goes walking alone in the woods with a .22, even so, women need to learn to hold power with OUT pulling the trigger. That's what's wrong ... the anti's think just because a gun is available that someone is going to point it at a person, pull the trigger, and kill somebody. They have no Clue. The more decent people can be familiarized with a weapon, the better they will carry their own power... even their speech. And God knows we need that! Thos Jefferson said there wasn't anything quite as effective at building a boy's character as walking with a gun, and I'd say the same for women too.
    • Kay  •  3 mths ago
      I love guns and I love target practicing with them. But really a pink gun for a cancer organization? Really? I'm so tired of the pink everything. Gus, water bottles, crappy little magnets enough is enough. This is now more about selling pink crap instead of finding a cure. Truthfully I wonder if they want to find a cure or if they want to just keep making crap to make money.
    • Belinda  •  3 mths ago
      NOOOOOOOOOO!
    • Tom  •  3 mths ago
      political pandering at its best.
    • gop32  •  3 mths ago
      Holy Cow.
      So this is what they are doing with the contributions?
    • AlphaBeta  •  3 mths ago
      Susan G. - not B. The handgun is no longer available -- and I so wanted one for Valentine's Day!
    • Dr, Kline  •  3 mths ago
      The line in the sand has been removed by the tide.
    • Kit Kat  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      I have to laugh because I have a pink and black gun. Though mine is a .40 xd subcompact. I bought it last year and my husband did a custom duracoat finish on it for me. I like it and really that is all that matters.

      Don't like pink guns, don't buy them.
    • francis  •  New Market, Maryland  •  3 mths ago
      and does it come with little pink bullets? it"s actually a good idea. what self respecting gangsta would rock a pink gun?
      • bigfoot 3 mths ago
        What self respecting gangsta would own a .22?
      • Kay 3 mths ago
        First off gangstas wouldn't cary a .22. But .22's are nice to go target practice with or use as protection.
    • S  •  3 mths ago
      Wow Susan, getting kinda nutty here aren't you?
    • Talker  •  San Diego, California  •  3 mths ago
      Death by handgun - OK. Death by cancer - not OK. Death of pregnant mother from botched abortion - OK. Death of human embryo to save the life of the mother - not OK. Death of truthful morality - OK. Say Anything to keep the $$ rolling in.
    • M.  •  3 mths ago
      Weird.
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