Yes, you read that right. A North Carolina (U.S.) orthodontist practice has quite possibly epitomized America’s morbid and masochistic love affair with weaponry by offering guns to patients who sign up for specified dental procedures, according to the USA Today.
Customers who enlist in the Invisalign (price tag averages around $5,000 USD) treatment will be given either a free Glock valued at $500 USD or a membership at the Youngsville Gun Club and Range. Youngsville, incidentally, is located about 40 km northeast of Raleigh, a metropolis on which multiple American media sources have bestowed Top 5 status for “Quality of Life” for mid-sized U.S. cities.
Customers will need to be at least 21 years of age and will need to pass background checks, which are notoriously weak, however, in many—particularly southern–U.S. states, as evidenced by the monthly mass shootings occurring in that country.
The dental office has not been the sole instigator of controversy regarding this rather novel yet disturbing idea: An air conditioning/heating business in South Carolina by the name of Arctic Air is offering a free AR-15—typically the weapon of choice for mass shooters—to accompany the purchase of their product. The owner of this ethically-bankrupt enterprise ebulliently stated that the company chose to employ the gimmick because, “It is (their) legal right.”
Not to be outdone, Florida roofing firm ROOF EZ is also livening up that nation’s Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season—coming in November and December, respectively—by providing clients not only with the traditionally revered Thanksgiving turkey, but also with an AR-15 to “protect (the) family” alongside the investment of a new roof. What would the holidays be without arms and ammunition!
A reputable U.S.-based research authority published a study this past September which indicated that approximately half of all Americans believe that private gun ownership makes the country safer.