Eight police officers joined ranks to pose for a poster being sold as part of a fundraising effort for breast cancer.

JOANNE SHUTTLEWORTHTORSTAR NEWS SERVICE (Toronto Star May. 6, 2004)

Guelph—"A controversial fundraising poster featuring eight provocatively clad, gun-slinging female police officers is drawing fire.

The poster, with the caption "Girls with Guns Target Breast Cancer," is a fundraiser for breast cancer research but that message is lost, detractors say, in images of sexy, heavily armed officers.

"There they are sporting guns as if it's a fun thing to do," said Dawn Reynolds, a family therapist in Guelph who is offended by the poster.

"Guns are what kill women. They are not a good thing. I regret hugely that this was done, especially for such a worthy cause as breast cancer."

Officers were selling the posters for Princess Margaret Hospital's Weekend to End Breast Cancer, a 60-kilometre walk through Toronto.

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