LOL - oh yeah, Hollywood is SUPER anti-gun - that explains why Hollywood studios have existed on thrillers, westerns, film noir, police shows, detective mysteries, trial dramas, crime dramas, military/war dramas, horror, science fiction - plus every combo you can think of, coroners who solves crimes, FBI agents who hunt UFO's, lil old lady detectives, sci-fi westerns... Hollywood is full of hand guns, laser guns, phasers, machine guns, historically accurate guns, totally fantastic guns.
Police officers go "off the rails" on television - just naming one show, The X-Files, featured many FBI agents who weren't exactly honorable people.
Hollywood has been one of the main factors in re-writing our American western history, portraying the frontier as was filled with honorable gun fighters, whose sole job in life was to hunt down the bad guys who took advantage of decent, honest folk - rather than the truth - which you can read in Mark Twain, Bret Harte, or any of the writers from that time period, that there weren't any "gun fighters," just a lot of folks with guns, far out from the more civilized areas, some of whom were completely out of control, others who might talk brave but would do anything to not actually get into a gun duel, others who were only brave with guns in the dark of night with a mob, plus a whole bunch of carpet baggers, con artists, and misfits.
When you say Goebbles would be proud of Hollywood, i know that you mean he'd be proud of the job hollywood has done in promoting their "incredibly anti-gun" slant...but that's a absurd. We can't even get legislation passed in this country - after a maniac walks into a school and kills a bunch of kids - that would close loopholes in *already existing laws!* without citizens absolutely *freaking out.* Intelligent, college-educated adults, have seriously said to me "they're going to come and try to take our guns away" - as if they government is were going to send trucks around, going door-to-door, and start loading up peoples firearms. Wow, Hollywood sure has done some real brainwashing there!
Can you IMAGINE how much money the television and movie industry would *lose* if all of a sudden they couldn't put out extremely violent, gun-filled crime & detective dramas? Hollywood needs a well-armed America, it needs tons of illegal weapons pouring into our inner cities, it needs guns in every corner of American life, to fuel it's entertainment machine.
Tho, i'd agree with you, actually, that Goebbles would be proud, the media has Americans brainwashed all right, the media has Americans brainwashed into a gun culture that will NEVER die. Never. The military *couldn't," logistically, take away "our guns," the American people have more firearms than the military - besides, it would be super dangerous to even attempt, violence would surely break out. While one may counter that most people are sheep-like, and will do whatever anybody in authority says, including giving up their guns, i'd say that American gun culture is extremely entrenched, and is such a huge part of the American identity, and there are tons of people who feel VERY strongly about their guns - and as this thread has shown, are very well informed about their guns - that there definitely would be people who would resist, and there would be violence.
Tho, really, it's ridiculous to talk about, the firearms industry is FAR too wealthy and powerful, and far too politically influential, to ever allow any kind of arms take away. Geez, we can't even get the smallest gun regulations passed. We can't even get legislation passed that would help stop illegal guns from pouring into inner cities that are rife with frightening amounts of gun violence. And Hollywood studios (many of which are family-owned dynasties) and big time producers - the wealthiest, most politically influential and powerful people in Hollywood - would NEVER want to see *real* gun laws passed, it would totally ruin their business. Sure, individual writers, actors & directors have their own, individual opinions on gun control, both pro and con, as is there *right* as Americans. They are free to have those views, and they are *free* to promote those views - just as YOU are free to promote your anti-gun-control views. But the real power in Hollywood lies higher up. It takes so many people to make a movie, or TV show, that even the director has very little actual control. The "message" of a Hollywood product is never going to really work against those who are the most powerful - not in any meaningful way.
One thing is for sure, every child in America, because of Hollywood, is familiar with and comfortable with and has learned to enjoy, guns as entertainment. Even young, rebellious, fiery teen-agers who say they want to see strong gun control laws probably still enjoy watching people get shot on film. Nearly every child in America plays with guns at some point in their lives, be they plastic toy guns, BB guns, paint guns or video game guns.
Hollywood has made sure that even the *most* sheltered suburban kid - far away from rural sports hunting, and urban gangs - is still familiar and comfortable with the idea of guns being an integral part of American life. That's how "anti-gun" Hollywood is - from the time of the early Westerns and crime dramas, to today, Hollywood has done it's part to create an American mythology that is heavily steeped in an ubiquitous gun culture.
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rjm2238
10 years ago
The point the man was making is indisputable and that is that at every opportunity Hollywood and in fact, the media, do all they can to make firearms look bad. These people go to lengths of giving them mystic powers, basically lives of their own as the previous poster pointed out.
As I write this it has been just a couple of days since an islamic madman shot up a gun free Marine recruitment center and the media and the left are out there ignoring the fact it was a gun free zone this animal chose to attack simply because it was a gun free zone but they are also soul searching looking for a motive to explain how one of their fellow travelers, as far as hating American culture is concerned, went off the rails when all you need to do is see his name and listen to his prior statements and his motives are entirely evident.
Again all this just shows the lenghts the left, Hollywood included will go to to make their political points, just as the previous poster was alluding to.
One thing most can agree on, here, now, with this event still fresh on our minds is this, there should not have been a gun free zone. That contributed to that location being picked and also helped cause those people to die as it allowed them no options to defend themselves.
Rich in New Mexico.
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dominusluna2-704-461065
9 years ago
Just to add...Many Hollywood Elite Actors (actors who have turned retarded after becoming rich)..Sean Penn and others, who have armed bodyguards rally against law abiding citizens having guns. it's well known that Hollywood is a mecca for liberal idiots. Gun Free Zones are about the dumbest thing that anyone has created in history. I think that these places exist on purpose so that psychos can kill many people so that some scumbag prezident can push their anti-gun agenda. Not to mention these liberal idiots running parts of the government(who also have their own armed guards). Common Sense evades these people entirely. Taking guns from "Law Aiding Citizens" is purely nonsensical and leads us down the path to form a population that is helpless against a tyrannical government that liberals have been promoting for decades.
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