Posted on 03/12/2018 8:43:13 AM PDT by rktman
I do not believe that violence in films and on television leads to violence in real life. More important factors like socio-economic conditions and an absence of morals are largely responsible.
But Hollywood has much to answer for when it comes to their astonishing disconnect from reality on guns. How is it possible that an industry whose biggest money makers are ultra-violent action movies can be so unaware that their advocacy for strict gun control is the biggest fraud going?
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I agree with you 100% These Hollywood Hypocrites make me sick. I would even go as far as no allowing any shows that show any violence.
Hollywood’s main premise for guns is that they are critical for self-defense.
Have you ever noticed how most movies and TV shows end happily after a good guy with a gun solves the problem?
LOL! How boring would the Walking Dead thread on FR be?
‘Have you ever noticed how most movies and TV shows end happily after a good guy with a gun solves the problem?’
haven’t noticed that at all; it’s always a woman with a gun solving the issue after a whimpering guy proves unable to do so...
I just watched the remake of “Death Wish”
Not a bad flick but you got the impression all you needed to do was walk into a gun store IN CHICAGO and walk out with a full auto machine gun.
There were at least three in the movie.
“I do not believe violence in films leads to violence in real life.”
Uh.. Has this loon ever heard of _advertising_? The US probably spends more on commercial advertising on television alone than the GNP of several countries combined.
I disagree, Rickey boy, as long as we are talking about the modern incarnation of the Hollywood sleezeball trash.
You don't give them the credit they deserve, they're far more deliberately evil and anti American than you evaluate.
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but that one thing I’ve found strange is that fully automatic rifles have been prohibited through grandfathering in Canada since 1978 and in the United States effectively so since 1986 and yet Hollywood continues to depict the violent use of them in their movies. This despite the fact that no legally owned fully auto has been used in the commission of a violent crime in both the United States or Canada.
#NoGunsHollywood
In Chicago, you find the street gun store that has no waiting period and buy anything they have, which is quite a wide supply. Same in New York, Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles......or any major and almost major city in the US. And then use it and blame the cop that caught you later. You’re back on the street, getting another gun, to further terrorize the public. And while the cop is being ostracized for stopping you, momentarily, the street seller calls you a return satisfied customer just like sears. And this time he may get some applied sales like different ammunition more powerful and higher priced. Isn’t being an entrepreneur noteworthy?
Even Obama found it lucrative using fast and furious for his street business. And his applied sales didn’t do a damn thing but kill people. If I was a person of color in this country, I would be embarrassed to say he was a representative of my race as the first black president. He was a screwup.
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Hence the 500 armed police officers at the Oscars this year.
***whose biggest money makers are ultra-violent action movies***
it wasn’t this way till 1968 when the movie industry said it would “police itself” with a joke of a ratings system, to prevent government regulations from doing it. Before this time movies had violence so mild you could drop your kids off and know they would not be traumatized.
After this they reshot scenes to ADD more blood and guts, along with lots of explicit sex to get the coveted “R” and “X” ratings.
Google: hollywood poster with guns
Click on images. Lots of ads from Hollywood.
I’ve noticed that guns used in movies are rarely regular models. They are almost always exotic versions.
He lost me at the first sentence.
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