by KYW’s John McDevitt
The Philadelphia-based retailing company Urban Outfitters is getting a lot of heat world-wide for selling fake gun Christmas tree ornaments. The $6 decoration is sold out in several area locations.
The sites and sounds of holiday time are everywhere in center city. Many shoppers say they associate things like traditional music, bells, the baby Jesus in a manger, even fruitcake with the holidays -- but not guns hanging from your Christmas trees:
"I think the whole thing is rather sick. I don't think it's something that goes along with Christmas and angels and jingle bells.”
Another shopper says the four-inch black glitter gun ornament glorifies gun violence (see related story).
Not everyone agrees:
"I think urban culture and music does a much bigger job, and this is the smallest part of the problem. It is just getting attention right now.”
Another shopper says this isn't the first time Urban Outfitters have been criticized for selling controversial merchandise and it probably does it as a marketing scheme.
Efforts to reach a spokesperson for the company were unsuccessful.
(Photo: AP)
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