Revulsion Therapy?

Can someone please explain how a picture of Corporal Willie O'Dea parting his moustache with a pistol glorifies a gun culture? Remembering that that eijjit is Minister for Defence, perhaps we should have our army carry lollypops and save us all these guilty pangs.

While we are at it, perhaps this Christmas we will all stop buying toyguns, violent video games etc for young impressionable minds (who incidently generally don't buy the Irish Times).
Paige