Francis should put his money where his mouth is and put one of these in front of his house.
Posted on 04/25/2017 6:47:07 AM PDT by pabianice
Op-ed paints gun owners as wannabe thrill killers inspired by John Wayne
Editorial board member Francis X. Clines wrote in the piece that the Fairfax, Virginia gun museum, which features firearms from every era of American history, represents the worst of America. In particular, Clines was troubled by a display detailing gun use in Hollywood movies.
"There are thousands of ingenious, gleaming rifles and handguns in displays about America's gun-rich history of colonialism, immigration, expansionism and vigilante justice," Clines wrote on page A22 of Monday's Times. "But it is the gallery devoted to Hollywood and its guns and good-guy shooters that best illustrates the power of fantasy now driving the modern gun rights debate."
Clines expressed outrage at a cardboard cutout of John Wayne displayed in the exhibit, referencing it several times in his editorial. He said the cutout, which depicts a gun-toting Wayne with a grin full of "menace," promoted fantasies about killing "bad guys" for American gun owners.
"A poster figure of John Wayne, the mega-hero of Hollywood westerns, offers a greeting here at the gun museum’s gallery door as he holds his Winchester carbine at the ready and offers an amiably crooked grin," Clines said. "The bad guys in the movies never fully understood that the menace behind Wayne's grin (‘Whoa, take ‘er easy there, Pilgrim') meant he was about to deliver blazing fantasies of triumphant gunfire that would leave them dead in the dust. It's no wonder modern Florida legislators could not resist protecting actual shooters who draw and fire like John Wayne as guilt-free, ‘stand-your-ground' defenders."
Clines said "the cardboard fantasy of the good guy gunning down the bad guy is what makes the museum work as an enjoyable escape from the life-and-death reality of American gun carnage."
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I would assume this “man” is at heart a pacifist...
The gun culture seem to make him wet his panties...
As normal libtards insist on forcing their world view on everybody else...
Francis should put his money where his mouth is and put one of these in front of his house.
“NYT Editorial Board Member Attacks NRA for Having Guns in Its Gun Museum”
NYT Editorial Board Member praised for not allowing intelligence in Its Board Room....
More accurate....
Clines supports a government monopoly on deadly force, because he knows that it’s the only way that the left can own the rest of us.
Bass Pro Shop in Springfield mo has an NRA and an archery museum. Very nice! Free too.
Mental illness is a terrible waste of a liberal’s mind.
>> So, having the ability to take responsibility for your own security, and ensuring the sovereignty of the people is a “necessary evil”? <<
Yes, of course it is! In an unfallen world, you wouldn’t need the implicit threat of death to protect yourself, your loved ones and your just possessions. “Necessary evil” does not mean “sin.”
Wasn’t even being spastic. Just reached out to touch the shiny, cool display.
>> Government is the necessary evil. <<
True.
[Good] Government serves to protect us. So do guns. Needing protection is a result of evil.
WHAT Are These People Smoking?
“I’m not a gun-lover (I support the 2nd Amendment as a necessary evil and because it’s the law whether anyone likes it or not)...”
So why did you go to a museum displaying 1000’s of guns?
Necessary evil? The 2nd Amendment is now a ‘necessary evil’?
Maybe your next museum outing should be to the Snowflake Hall of Fame.
The first use of fake blood squibs was in the 1969 movie, “The Wild Bunch.” That’s why pre-1969 movies now look so fake in shooting scenes. That said, this writer is an idiot.
Alrighty then. Makes perfect sesnse. Thanks for clearing that up.
Because we all know that logic worked so well in 1938.
Time and effort spent defending against evil is absolutely necessary, as has been demonstrated repeatedly before and after 1938. The cost of defending against evil is much less than the cost of failing to do so.
I think you’re on the wrong site, pal. You just called my country’s laws evil.
A NECESSARY evil. Not a sin, but the result of fallen nature. Surely you can agree that it’s unfortunate that we must resort to the use of deadly force, or the threat thereof, to be at peace?
A NECESSARY evil. Not a sin, but the result of fallen nature. Surely you can agree that it’s unfortunate that we must resort to the use of deadly force, or the threat thereof, to be at peace?
Yes, A NECESSARY evil. Not a sin, but the result of fallen nature. Surely you can agree that it’s unfortunate that we must resort to the use of deadly force, or the threat thereof, to be at peace?
I’m stunned so many people have no idea of what “necessary evil” means.
A necessary evil is an unfavorable thing that someone believes must be done or accepted because it is necessary to achieve a better outcome—especially because possible alternative courses of action or inaction would be worse... In Common Sense, Thomas Paine described government as at best a “necessary evil.”...
The use of the term “evil” in the phrase does not indicate that the thing being characterized as a “necessary evil” is something that is generally considered an “evil” in the sense of being immoral or the enemy of the good. In Fuller’s use of the phrase, for example, there is no implication that court jesters are evil people, or having one serves an evil end.
Just another America-is-evil creep projecting his own imbalances onto others. America also has a gun-rich history of freedom. Deal with it.
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