[From August 14, 2014] Rambo Hates Guns: How Sylvester Stallone Became the Most Anti-Gun Celeb in Ho

daily beast ^ | August 14, 2014 | Asawin Suebsaeng 

[SunkenCiv]

Source: Bruce Willis Left 'Expendables 3' Over $1 Million-a-Day Fee Demand

• Sylvester Stallone Calls Bruce Willis 'Greedy and Lazy' on Twitter
• Opinion: Bruce Willis 'greedy and lazy' after 'Expendables' exit? Not so much, Sylvester Stallone

  That's what Sylvester Stallone tweeted on Tuesday, just after he announced that Harrison Ford was joining his Expendables team for their next adventure, filling the action-icon void left by his onetime Planet Hollywood pal, Bruce Willis... The Hollywood Reporter cited "sources with knowledge of the situation" that claimed that Willis was replaced after he'd demanded $4 million for just four days of filming in Bulgaria. I'm not Willis' agent -- who declined to comment about the matter -- or the president of Willis' fan club, but publicly calling him "greedy and lazy" on Twitter is not only unprofessional, but inevitably begs some pot/kettle introductions. After all, it's Stallone who's spent the last eight years wringing every last dollar out of the 1980s, resurrecting Rambo and Rocky Balboa and creating the Expendables as some charity organization for aging Hollywood muscle-men who are still quick with a gun and a quip. There's so much winking at the camera in these movies that you'd think Stallone had a neurological disorder.

[Caipirabob]

Well, since "Rocky" he's made millions selling the use of them.

A bit too late to take a meaningful stand on them. He'll count among some of the more successful gun salesmen in history.

Chew on that, Stallone.

[driftdiver]

I wonder how many armed security men he uses.

[BCW]

“After the shooting death of his friend, comedian Phil Hartman, in 1998, Stallone became particularly passionate about the issue.”

So - his is an emotional response - not a logical one.

Yeah - he needs to shut up considering the amount of money and fame he has gotten from such “on-screen” gun violence...

[Travis McGee]

[1010RD]

Yeah, guns are only good for making money, not protecting liberty.

[central_va]

Hey give all your money back and we might listen to anything you say.

[1010RD]

Government schools have utterly failed the youth of our country. They don’t teach the important and distinctive things of our nation. We have a common law system while the rest of the world has one imposed by government. We have a Bill of Rights that no one has. We are a free market country, at least historically, and that’s a rare bird.

The history of the world is slavery and tyranny. Liberty is so rare that it deserves special attention. Instead we let lieberals do the teaching. Stupid.

[elcid1970]

Sly needs to practice what he advocates:

Knock, knock

“I’m Sylvester Stallone and I’m here to take away your guns. Hand ‘em over, NOW!!!”

[Colonel_Flagg]

Yo, Sly. Even Adrian says STFU.

[PapaBear3625]

After the shooting death of his friend, comedian Phil Hartman, in 1998, Stallone became particularly passionate about the issue.

Hartman was shot to death in his sleep by his wife, after an argument. The wife was intoxicated and on Zoloft.

The wealthy do not fear armed criminals. They have armed bodyguards and street criminals know better than to bother anybody who has the mayor on speed-dial. What celebs fear are regular people with guns, people with no prior criminal history, who may suddenly develop a desire to kill the celebrity. No body guards can protect them from random crazies (or their own drunken wives).

Gun control ramped up considerably after the killing of John Lennon.

[TigersEye]

Yeah, guns are only good for making money, not protecting liberty.

And how do these jackass millionaire actors usually use guns in their movies? Committing crimes (even when they're the good guys) and in dangerous, unsafe and patently ridiculous ways. Don't get me wrong, I love action/adventure movies, but these moron play actors are the last people on earth to speak about gun ownership or safety.

[noinfringers2]

Question! Do you feel compromised by enjoying the actors behavior/performance but hating the actors real life dogma? Of course I am biased because I stopped giving my earned money to these make believe people a long time ago.

[TigersEye]

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘compromised.’

[noinfringers2]

I could have and probably should have asked , without any personal judgment, how you reconcile spending time on a make believe situation by persons you do not apparently think highly of. As a personal choice for me I forego the Hollywood make believe garbage.

[TigersEye]

I like movies. If an actor like Neeson or Stallone pisses me off enough I don’t watch their movies. They don’t get much if I do watch them and don’t lose much if I don’t though since I am only seeing them on DirecTV’s basic package channels.

[Red in Blue PA]

Excellent point.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Good one! LOL!

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Stallone’s comments remind me of ‘Demolition Man’.

[RC one]

yeah, that’s right. Again, he’s a total hypocrite.