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‘F***ing Idiot and Hypocrite’: Kim Kardashian Under Fire for Posting Pic of…Glitzy Handgun

Feb. 6, 2013 3:12pm Erica Ritz

Kim Kardashian Under Fire for Tweeting Pic of Jewel Encrusted Gun After Making Sandy Hook Pledge

In this Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, Television personality Kim Kardashian poses for photographers at the red carpet during the 40th anniversary of Cosmopolitan magazine in Spanish in Mexico City. (Photo: AP)

Reality television star Kim Kardashian is drawing heavy fire for posting a photo of a jewel-encrusted handgun on Instagram just weeks after signing a pledge to reduce gun violence in honor of the Sandy Hook massacre.

“Today, people in Newtown are making the #sandyhookpromise to reduce gun violence. Sign the pledge with me at http://www.sandyhookpromise.org,” she wrote at the time.

But some are now conflating guns, with gun violence.

Hollywood gossip aficionado Perez Hilton wrote:

Now, Kim has been enjoying the shooting range for years now, and we’re sure she enjoys feeling like she can protect herself. But this was a clear example of a celebrity forgetting the height of their platform, and the social-impacting consequences that can come with it.

(Photo: @KimKardashian/Instagram via the New York Daily News)

Here are a few responses on Twitter (content warning):

(Photo: Twitter/@zedgardezi)

(Photo: Twitter/@judymorris3)

(Photo: Twitter/@4CELEB)

(Photo: Twitter/@LisaBellettini)

(Photo: Twitter/@PoliticalTom)

Kardashian has since removed the photo, but this isn’t the first time the reality star has posted a gun-related image.

A month before the Sandy Hook shootings, Kardashian apparently shared this picture of herself at a gun range on Twitter:

(Photo: @KimKardashian/Twitter via the New York Daily News)

Kardashian, who is expecting her first child with boyfriend Kanye West this summer, has not yet issued a public response to the controversy. But she’s no stranger to political controversy.

After tweeting that she was “praying for everyone in Israel” during conflict in the region in November, she was called a “disgrace” to her people and told that she is the reason at least one Twitter user wants “to die.”

Some, though, are standing up for Kardashian.

“Kim Kardashian posted a pic of a gun on Instagram & now everyone is all pissed off,” one person tweeted, according to ABC. “I forgot the 2nd amendment didn’t count for celebs.”

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Comments (144)

Maximus_Delta
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:55pm
kardashian’s = whores = low information voters = liberals

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TheAcknickulousOne
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:53pm
Lol, at that Pea Shooter

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Karama
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:26pm
Why do we give a crap what this air headed bimbo says or does? She’s only somebody, because people just as vacuous pay attention to her. Stop feeding the beast.

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katzkiner
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:11pm
Any woman with half a brain will own and know how to use her gun, diamonds are forever, so is a gun. She is smarter than she gets credit for. Have you turned you best assets into millions $$$$$$? She has.

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TonyRUS
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:53pm
Come on! Her only mistake was being too neive to know she is supposed to LIE about having the gun or at least keep it to herself. It was NOT a mistake to have the gun and yet preach against having guns. Silly girl.

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publicas
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:41pm
blah, blah, blah, it’s a cute gun.

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mikenleeds
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:17pm
Pimp azz pistol , the pistol is almost as hot as you

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sasquatch08
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:17pm
Don’t worry, SPLC will soon have these people on their “hate map”.

Also, to my knowledge no one cares what Perez Hilton thinks or knows who he/she is.

I find it hilarious the supposed power celebrities wield. “…celebrity forgetting the height of their platform, and the social-impacting consequences that can come with it.”

WTH are you talking about!? Are a ton of 16 year old girls gonna go out and buy a jewel encrusted derringer? You’re a frickin moron.

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sgallion1
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:53pm
Personally I think it’s a beautiful gun, if, in fact, it’s real. I don’t think she’s an idiot at all. I’m not saying she’s the brightest star in the bunch; but you have to admit….she’s marketing herself without a lot of talent and she’s making a fortune. She’s even taught her family to do the same with what seems to be less talent than she has. However……I’m glad she is getting a taste of what the “hate” crowd of liberals are really like. I hope she doesn’t call any of them her friends. Just a thought…..Kim, it would be an awesome marketing move to become an, “out of the closet conservative”. It’s not like you’d lose any movie roles; and you’d gain a whole new market group that really would respect you a lot more than the majority of air-headed, unappreciative, unpatriotic (mostly, bad acting) Hollywood liberals. PLUS, we conservatives think it’s great that you know how to utilize the capitalistic system and make lots of money; instead of sitting on your derriere waiting for Obama money. I’ve been doing brand marketing for many years; let me know if I can help to “positively redirect your political brand”. You could be a star all over again!

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- sasquatch08
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:19pm
  “…awesome marketing move to become an, “out of the closet conservative”….”
  
  She could start a line of revolvers for women!
  
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fahdie
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:41pm
The Pakistan You Don’t See In The News

http://tamak-toyian.pk/2013/02/06/the-pakistan-you-dont-see-in-the-news/

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runwithscissors
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:39pm
Nice revolver I guess, looks like it might scratch easily.

As for her looks, I think she looks great, nice hips, very feminine and really nice eyes. I often wonder if she looks like a wreck without makeup because you never see her without.

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SheepDogconfrontthewolf
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:37pm
“HOLY FAT CHICK BATMAN” is that a girl with a gun. next there going to outlaw girls with guns… liberal retards

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gyro
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:32pm
Kim Kardashian and the word gun = lots of posts
on topic
Shes hot

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deltaecho
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:25pm
naa .22.

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pap pap
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:22pm
It’s a tool it’s not jewelry.

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Exidor
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:21pm
Kind of like her trip to Haiti. Nothing but an attention w h * r e.

We’ve got hotter girls in Texas. Who can really shoot.

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Verceofreason
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:20pm
This brouhaha is EXACTLY why she posted the pics.

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GoodCook
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:16pm
You know being a racist bigoted homophobic extremist Democrat just isn’t cool any more.

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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:16pm
Ok, I prefer guns to have a trigger guard, but beyond that, what’s the problem? Never heard of the 2nd amendment?

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Apexduck
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:58pm
The point everyone is missing here is that the non-blinged version of this gun kills more people than the so called evil assult rifles. This is a classic case of the liberal “do as I say not as I do” mentality on most issues. If they have it it is because they need it more than the average person and they are smarter and more responsible than other americans.

Any bets on how long after the baby is born before Kanya West moves on to his next baby momma?

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OniKaze
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:57pm
Its a shame Mrs. Kim didn’t know that the 2nd doesn’t apply to celebrities, and that anyone who owns a gun MUST be a serial killer with mental illness…

Silly woman….

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termyt
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:55pm
Can anyone explain to me how owning a gun is at odds with reducing gun violence?

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devilfish23
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm
Why is that waste of oxygen even being reported on/about? Dont we have more pressing issues to discuss instead of some over rated self hyped blow hard.this isnt the kind of news i expect to find when i read The Blaze.

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BellaMia7
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm
Criminal violence is a deadly issue. Who doubts that Kim get death threats and other threats. She has a duty as a citizen to protect her life. If she were murdered by a fan, the trial would cost millions. Kim with a gun saves the taxpayers money.

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TheEDGE
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:48pm
I’ll bet the same idiots that are offended by a picture of a revolver and immediately promote it by tweeting about it, couldn’t care less that their dear leader is totally fine with using drones to KILL Americans.

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- OniKaze
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Of course not… They are too busy denying that he is even doing it… Even though he not only admits it, but HAS DONE SO in the past…
  
  Barry is the 4th Reich, and the brainless fools that don’t realize it will be so dumbfounded when the Gestapo knocks on THEIR door.
  
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