Posted on 03/15/2018 8:55:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
Actress Sharon Stone is so distressed by the Columbine High School shootings that she's giving up her right to bear arms. And she wants you to, too.
In a dramatic gesture of, hmmm--shallow self-righteousness has a nice ring to it--Stone called police to her Beverly Hills home, turned over her shotgun and three handguns, and told the officers to destroy them.
"Our world has changed and our children are in danger," said Stone, who, in addition to playing a seductress who ice-picks her lovers to death during sex, once played a gunslinger. "I choose to surrender my right to bear arms in exchange for the peace of mind of doing the right thing."
Ah, moral outrage in Beverly Hills. Gives you goose bumps doesn't it?
And how, pray tell, has our world changed? Gun ownership hasn't changed. People, young and old, always have had access to guns. What's changed are the values that control trigger fingers, and no single institution has contributed more to the current erosion than Stone's genre of motion pictures.
If Stone wanted to make a gesture of substance, she might have summoned a press conference to apologize for her part in glamorizing violence. She might have called on her Hollywood buddies to stop the insanity in promoting violence as just one more cultural option, sometimes humorous, always entertaining.
Instead, Stone urged Americans to give up their weapons, to relinquish their "fear and anger."
"We as a nation are in pain," she said with riveting profundity.
Basically, Stone's instincts are all wrong. Surrendering her guns will have the same effect on school violence as her chastity would have on teen pregnancy. Nevertheless, she'll doubtless be cheered by the vendors of empty symbolism, with the loudest ovations thundering out of Hollywood's eastern shrine, the White House.
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No one else remembers that apparently.
Clinton was president and no one blamed him for the massacre in the media or elsewhere................
Only my ears, from listening to this constant horse$hit from the left.
And who doesn’t think of Sharon Stone as their moral compass?
I saw a recent interview with her. (Not political.) She is lovely!
Well, she’s been known to move a needle, but not of the moral variety...
She is most likely surrounded by a bunch of thuggish armed-to-the-teeth bodyguards, while she wants us to surrender our guns and remain vulnarable to violence. Nice try.
Yes, this incident that was perpetrated by two young men who opposed law abiding citizens being granted concealed carry permits for handguns and planned to have their rampage to take place the same day as the Colorado legislature was to take up such a bill for that state (and likely pass it successfully). But we would not have wanted to bother Ms. Stone with such inconvenient facts, would we?
I was going to comment on how she sits when she talks to police officers, but decided to stay classy!
The Clintons attempted to use the incident as to try to further strengthen national firearms control laws (Photo ID for handgun purchases, registration, etc) in order to rebuild their image with women and urban voters following the Lewinsky sex scandal and impeachment.
IIRC, she actually did turn in her gun(s) to the LAPD, and some disc jockey shock jock out there publicized her street address on the radio telling everyone, “Hey you criminals out there! Sharon Stone has no guns in her house!”.................
Never let a crisis go to waste....................
I’ve been listening to this nonsense for the last 56 years. Same old spew over and over again.
LOL is that a trick question?
Born in Western PA.
I’m starting to have a real disdain for people on that side of my state. They are no different than the New Jerseyite and New Yorker scum that ooze into my town during the summer.
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