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You make some excellent points. Movies continually show guns, especially "assault weapons", as near-giant killers. Constantly, the Hero-figure in films can be seen whipping out some huge hand cannon or machine gun to blast the Bad Guys with. It's been going on since "Dirty Harry".

With the graboids continually fulminating about "high-powered" guns, "weapons of war", and "weapons of mass destruction" (Don't laugh...it's their latest talking point re: semiautos), the urban or suburban folk with no firearm experience is left with two choices...abjec fear and loathing ("Soccer Moms") or glorification (gangstas and teens).

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Asking Hollywood, the alphabet soup, or the gray lady to consider these polar extremes is unlikely to produce the desired effect. It all relates to my theory that the driving of small, family farmers out of business, and the ballooning of our urban areas is the biggest threat to freedom in this country. City folk grow up without any exposure to the introspection and tradition of suburban life. Guns are just symbols to them.

[RedMonqey]

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