THIS picture would probably make the snowflake faint dead away..................
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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“Lighten up, Francis!!!”
Been there. 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), but I did like this museum. My toddler set off the alarms. Oops. Swift, effective, unobtrusive, friendly security.
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Can we still have statues in an art gallery?
NYT Editorial Board Member Attacks NRA for Having Guns in Its Gun Museum
THIS picture would probably make the snowflake faint dead away..................
Government is the necessary evil. The second amendment keeps it from becoming a tyrannical evil.
How difficult it must be for the author of this drooling screed to get through life with a skull full of dried leaves and deat insects. Spiral-eyed crazy with hate and loathing he is.
It is sad when DeMentia calls and the door is wide open. Forty years on the NYT and he is probably the leader of all snow flakes. He must ghve gotten a great belly laugh when he understood, if he did, this particular editorial would be published.
I certainly had one.
Exactly. I can’t believe he actually said that. The Constitution is a “necessary evil?” Where do these idiots come from?
Ask New Orleans:
Francis is already light if you know what I mean.
So, having the ability to take responsibility for your own security, and ensuring the sovereignty of the people is a "necessary evil"?
Pray tell, what is evil about the second amendment? I look forward to your enlightened response.
*LOL*
“My toddler set off the alarms. Oops. Swift, effective, unobtrusive, friendly security.”
Reminds me of the time I took a few little kids to the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox (when it was there and they had tanks there). One of the little “spastic” kids was “crawling” around on some historically rare sword display and apparently set off a silent alarm.
Wasn’t but a few seconds after I told the kid to get off of it, I was met by about 4 MPs.
This.
John Wayne was a big star when I was a kid, too...but he never “inspired” me to shoot anyone. It’s not the guns, it’s demented people who long to shoot people.
Fast forward to today’s “Hollywood”...these slash movies just can’t show enough blood and guts. In John Wayne’s movies you seldom saw any hint of blood. We knew it was fake, and we knew it was just a movie.
But, we had parents that taught us right from wrong.
John Wayne was a hero not because he occasionally shot someone, but because he didn’t take any crap from the bad guys, and he was a patriot. His job was acting, reading someone’s script.
I guess, perhaps, we weren’t raised to be robots of the left, when schools taught the three ‘R’s” and patriotism, instead of communist indoctrination.
This guy enjoys his fantasies of violent, murderous Trump supporters.
It’s called “projection”
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