If there was one place in America where you could expect to see photos of people posing with Santa Claus and their AK-47's, it would be Scottsdale, Arizona, home of the country's largest indoor gun range.
This morning, Fox & Friends invited Scottsdale Gun Club general manager Ron Kennedy to defend the organization's controversial practice of having members pose with Santa and their guns.
Gretchen Carlson questioned the appropriateness of these types of images in Arizona in light of last year's Gabrielle Giffords shooting, which caused Kennedy to launch into his standard speech on safety without addressing the larger implications.
Brian Kilmeade took particular interest in the rules the gun club has put in place for the photos. These include no fingers on the triggers and no guns pointed at Santa. Kilmeade also wanted to know why Santa himself is never photographed holding a gun and didn't appear to get a satisfying answer from the spokesman.
One fact left unmentioned was the three self-inflicted shootings that have occurred at the Scottsdale Gun Club since 2007, including one this past August. Perhaps those gun-related stories are just a little too dark for Christmas time.
Watch below, via Fox News:
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What is there to 'defend'?
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It's what Christmas Holidays are all about'
'Santa, Peace, Love and a warm fuzzy fully locked and loaded AK47!
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In the Heartland & Sunny South, boys always got an air-rifle for Christmas at age 6, and a .22 rifle or .410 shotgun on their 12th birthday. Has that changed in today's wimpy world? Kids need to learn early.
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When will these begin to appear ridiculous, when everyone is wearing full tactical gear with body armor, helmets and goggles?
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'no guns pointed at Santa'?
Puss.
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'murika
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yes let's increase accidents with guns. it'll be great.
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The purpose. That is what I don't understand. I am not anti-gun. I have a gun that was handed down to me. Almost all of the men in my family have guns. But you never see them. The guns are not apart of our family. We don't pose with them and talk about them all the time. We are not obsessed with them. It's the obsession that needs defending.
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WELL GRETCHEN, SANTA IS MAKE BELIEVE JUST LIKE YOU AND YOUR CREW.
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Christmas.. There's no better way for Christians to celebrate the birth of their God than to give their children objects that kill.
It's what Jesus would have wanted.
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