Hollywood begins massive assault on gun ownership (HUH?)

johnrlott.blogspot.com ^ | 11/26/2016 | John Lott

[rktman]

These movies and television shows that are pushing gun control make no attempt to treat the arguments on the other side seriously.

"Miss Sloane" -- focuses on a battle-hardened female lobbyist who gives herself the Herculean challenge of taking on the gun lobby

The movie opens on December 9th. Is already getting a huge amount of publicity simply because it has a political message that the liberal media likes. Just from the trailer it appears as if they make the NRA look like a bunch of evil guys, not people who really care about letting the most vulnerable people in society have a chance to defend themselves and their family.

[smokingfrog]

Flop of the year. May not even make it to DVD.

[allendale]

As the financial backers of these Soviet revival films lose money, fewer will be made. Remember if a producer has had a very profitable year he can engage his political fantasy with such a money losing film, declare a loss, pay much less tax and in effect have the government underwrite the propaganda,

[ctdonath2]

That’s odd, because the series would have been cut short if not for a civilian with a gun.

[Skepolitic]

Hollywood has been against private ownership of guns since I was a kid ... back in the fifties.

I remember old B&W westerns in which the sheriff enforced strict gun confiscation in his territory because widespread gun ownership created a society of extreme violence.

The popular notion of the extremely violent wild west (with the exceptions of the government’s slaughter of the Plains Indians and retaliatory incidents) is a creation of Hollywood. The theme had entertainment potential, but a side benefit for the left was that it was also a platform for gun control. The fact is that the most violent of towns, Dodge City, Kansas, before gun confiscation wasn’t as violent as today’s Chicago with gun control.

[philman_36]

I wonder what the hashtag will be.

#EschewMissSloane perhaps?

[Baynative]

That's it!

We should start a movement demanding that Hollywood makes no more movies with guns or weapons that can kill. No knives, no ropes, no violent beatings and so on.

We should also demand they stop showing all movies that exist where someone dies.

No more residuals for actors promoting violence!

[US_MilitaryRules]

Wasn’t it Gunsmoke where the sheriff didn’t carry a gun unless there was going to be some trouble?

[umgud]

Oh yeah, somebody is buying millions of guns and I doubt they are all republicans. Maybe the grabbers ought to take a new poll.

[DaveA37]

I am not a movie goer and watching any of the more recent movies made in Hollywood (or elsewhere) is absolutely a waste of the precious time we have here on earth, I am sure that “Miss Sloan” will be no different.

[Gaffer]

I have no idea who or what Miss Sloan is but I think I can say by the title that it would have to impress me straight away.....I don’t think so.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***he can engage his political fantasy with such a money losing film,***

I remember seeing these types of films on HBO many years ago and wondered why they were never shown at the theaters or ever heard from again. Most were used as time fillers.
Now I find such films are all over the TV now.

[philman_36]

Moral low ground...

Can She Take Away America’s Guns? Miss Sloane Gives It a Try

But Sloane’s conversion isn’t a go-and-sin-no-more moment. To rouse congressional support, she dupes a school-shooting survivor (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) into becoming the public face of the movement. She also lies, cheats, and has emotionless sex with a high-priced male escort (Jake Lacy). Eventually she’s dragged in front of a holier-than-thou senator (John Lithgow) to answer for her professional indiscretions. In Sloane’s world, the end always justifies the means, no matter how often she’s told she’s gone too far this time—and she gets told that a lot, mostly by her new boss (Mark Strong), who’s more of a not-by-any-means guy.

There's a character for our daughters to model themselves after. (not)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Dodge City, Kansas, before gun confiscation wasn’t as violent as today’s Chicago with gun control.***

True. However, such guns laws were used only against the cowboys coming in with the trail herds, not the local citizens.

In Wichita, which had a no guns policy, Hurricane Bill and his cowboys came armed into town and were met late one night by the local deputy. Someone rang the alarm bell, and suddenly about fifty ARMED WICHITA CITIZENS appeared to support the deputy.
Hurricane Bill and his men immediately retreated into the darkness, and it was said many guns were later found discarded in weed patches around town.

[butlerweave]

The Chinese Communist Party owns Hollywood and the movies are made to make money in China and make the US Government/Military look stupid

[Red in Blue PA]

What the NYSLIMES pans a gun grabbing films, you know it’s bad!

Partly because “Miss Sloane” is more a character study than a coherent political drama, it fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending. In light of the recent presidential election, it all feels like small potatoes.

[Red in Blue PA]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/movies/miss-sloane-review-jessica-chastain.html

[wku man]

Suck on this, Hollywood faggots!

Just One Gun by 10 Pound Test

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!

[sig226]

Meanwhile, Watson routinely carried his revolver and Holmes routinely beat the crap out of people.

[dfwgator]

These movies are tax-writeoffs.