Posted on 10/12/2017 6:13:59 AM PDT by rktman
Last week Stephen Paddock killed at least 59 Las Vegas concert-goers using automatic weapons. Reportedly aided by “bump stocks” that made his semi-automatic rifles into automatic weapons, his killing spree was the worst in U.S. history.
People were understandably horrified that that he was able to fire what amounted to machine guns into a crowd. Yet similar weapons were being fired in movie theaters around the country. Three of the top five movies at the box office featured characters blasting away with automatic weapons. Two -- Kingsman: Golden Circle and American Assassin -- included so many examples of such violence that the numbers were difficult even to count.
An analysis of the top five movies in theaters the week before the attack (Sept. 22-28) showed incredible big-screen carnage, including characters firing handguns and employing a wide range of other forms of violence.
Because The Lego Movie is animated, it wasn’t included in the tally. So just four movies -- Kingsman: Golden Circle, American Assassin, It and Mother! -- featured 589 incidents of violence, including 212 incidents of gun violence. The total body count of the four was at least 192. At least 108 times, some kind of automatic weapon was used. Those guns fired so many rounds, so rapidly, an accurate tally of shots or even shooters was impossible.
To underscore that point, the Kingsman trailer was so filled with violence it is difficult to tally. This 1 minute 56 second clip shows four scenes of characters deploying several different automatic weapons, as well as pistols, a lasso and rockets.
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Congress has the power to stop the gratuitous promotion of evil by Hollywood.
The first amendment includes freedom of the press (as well as speech and religion). This has wrongly been interpreted by the courts to include protection of the rights of pornographers to make and disseminate pornography. That was never considered even remotely the case by the founders, but is simply the result of treating the Constitution as a “living document.”
However, be that as it may, Congress has complete authority over copyright. And while those with printing presses (and websites, and blogs) have the right to write and publish their ideas, and even charge money for this, Congress has control over whether others may lawfully copy these works. Congress may also determine the limitations of what a copyright holder may charge to license his or her works. And Congress may further prescribe the length that any such protections of intellectual property ownership last, disposing all such works into the public domain in which all speech, press, and religious ideas become truly “free.”
Take away the copyright privileges of Hollywood films that do not meet community values. Those that are already copyrighted can still keep their protection (no ex post facto), only tax their proceeds at 110% (for the common welfare, of course).
Congress has the power to stop the gratuitous promotion of evil by Hollywood.
The first amendment includes freedom of the press (as well as speech and religion). This has wrongly been interpreted by the courts to include protection of the rights of pornographers to make and disseminate pornography. That was never considered even remotely the case by the founders, but is simply the result of treating the Constitution as a “living document.”
However, be that as it may, Congress has complete authority over copyright. And while those with printing presses (and websites, and blogs) have the right to write and publish their ideas, and even charge money for this, Congress has control over whether others may lawfully copy these works. Congress may also determine the limitations of what a copyright holder may charge to license his or her works. And Congress may further prescribe the length that any such protections of intellectual property ownership last, disposing all such works into the public domain in which all speech, press, and religious ideas become truly “free.”
Take away the copyright privileges of Hollywood films that do not meet community values. Those that are already copyrighted can still keep their protection (no ex post facto), only tax their proceeds at 110% (for the common welfare, of course).
Dang. That was awesome enough you had to post it twice. LOL!
They promote gun violence for a paycheck while standing on the ban weapons band wagon. Hypocrites.
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