Stars to wear orange pins at Oscars in call for gun control

ABC News ^ | March 3, 2018 | Danny Clemens

[a fool in paradise]

Time was Harvey Weinstein pressured actresses to wear his wife’s dress designs to these award shows (and later she claimed SHE was a victim!).

[M Kehoe]

Will the celebrities body guards be wearing the ribbon?

5.56mm

[niteowl77]

I suspect that it would be almost impossible for a Hollywood exec to understand just how unimportant showbiz is to me.

And when they get together to congratulate each other and virtue-signal to the (m)asses, they manage to concentrate that unimportance into a metaphorical "black hole" from which no give-a-damn of mine escapes.

I enjoy those moments when someone asks me if I saw a movie or television show and I tell them, "No. I gave up on pop culture a couple years ago." I am not rude or cruel about it, but increasingly I drily tell people that I have no idea who entertainer/performer/impressario "X" is, that I haven't seen - or heard, if it involves music - "Y," and that "Z" does not strike me as something worth contemplation.

[a fool in paradise]

You mock but that's what Action for Children's Television essentially did, ban guns from cartoons (or at least basic pistols and rifles). I seem to recall reading that the people working on the Planet of the Apes cartoon in the 70s got around it by creating some kind of super future rifle/cannon.

This one looks "advanced"

This one looks traditional

[rktman]

Nah. If they REALLY cared, they’d suspend any and all entertainment production involving firearm violence in any form for a year. And pull any current releases for the same time frame. Come on hippos, pony up. No? Figures.

[DakotaGator]

The Oscars and their award ceremony are no longer meaningful. They are only a public echo chamber for mind dead liberals.

[Lockbar]

My best friend first made a bunch of these to hand out at gun shows 25 years ago. Then others copied them......

[a fool in paradise]

Even when I didn’t care for the movies, I’d watch for the retrospective of who’d passed in the previous year and other details.

But haven’t watched it in many years and scarcely watch television in the past decade.

[VanShuyten]

Virgininia Civilian Defense League “Guns Save Lives” buttons?

https://vcdl-gear.myshopify.com/collections/buttons

[Ancient Man]

http://variety.com/2018/film/awards/oscars-security-2018-red-carpet-1202716110/

[skimbell]

Deer season...with scary guns.

[a fool in paradise]

Disney would NEVER make their gun play filled action films like the Avengers and Captain America off limits to kids under 18 (or 21), let alone restricting them from 11 year olds

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Clip: Highway Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8VGH5xV4Y

And for good measure they even show vehicles being used as violent assault weapons

[ronnie raygun]

Placating the idiocy and shallowness of their adoring fans who will take this and eat it without question. Now this is mental illness!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Are these Hollyweird f—ktards going to give up their private, armed security? Hell no!

[a fool in paradise]

WHO will not wear the ribbon???!!!

[bray]

Should say NRA member.

[VanDeKoik]

Orange pins are a cultural appropriation from the Dutch.

I’m offended!

Seriously it seems like they just ran out of colors.

[rktman]

Cars and trucks are okay since they aren’t “designed” to kill mass quantities of folks. Then again gas cans aren’t either. Or 5 gallon propane tanks. Or pressure cookers. When’s the last time you saw a movie theater keep kids out of an “R” rated movie?

[robel]

And I suppose they will announce that any movie with a gun will be banned from receiving an award.

[a fool in paradise]

How queer that they didn’t respond likewise when workers were slaughtered at the company Christmas party by an Islamic jihadist couple in a hate crime?!!