Urban Outfitters is sticking to its guns

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Since when was Christmas supposed to be edgy? Since now, according to Urban Outfitters, whose 2006 holiday catalog includes a “5-inch-long, Chinese-made gun ornament for $6.” While the Philadelphia company insists the ornament and its “Bust a cap in your tree” tagline are funny, others disagree. A rep for Pennsylvania’s governor, Ed Rendell, says her boss “doesn’t find it humorous or clever to display weapons that are responsible for taking hundreds of lives each year as if they are decorations.”

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