Posted on 09/26/2002 10:03:32 AM PDT by white trash redneck
Crighton delights in writing against the politically correct tide. I do not know what his specific feelings on gun control are, but as an example, he deliberately passed over the chance to make the girl in Jurassic Park a computer geek hero, in favor of her brother, and strongly resisted the Hollywood influence to reverse the roles (remember "Hey, this is a Unix box... I can do this!").
Crighton draws his inspiration from examples in real life, again with a proclivity towards taking current topics and putting a politically incorrect spin on them. I would therefore not be surprised if Crighton took inspiration from his recent unfortunate experience and a Crighton-flavored "Unintended Consequences" type novel were to come out hitting the gun control crowd heavily.
I know Crighton has put out some clunkers recently. I have almost all his earlier books, including a relatively little-known non-fiction one called Travels, which takes on the Shirley MacLaine New Age types with some degree of hilarity but also (again, characteristically of the author) an open mind.
Anyway my guess is that Crighton probably realizes that he is doggone lucky to have been left alive by the lowlifes that invaded his home, and is considering all his options, and coming very quickly to the conclusion (if he by some chance did not realize it before) that state and federal gun laws suck big time. I have been a victim of a daytime home robbery (fortunately no one there when it happened) and the first few days are spent running around trying to get stuff fixed and extremely worried that the lowlifes will come back since they now know just how vulnerable their victims are and they are obviously not lacking for boldness and respect for the law and privacy. And worried even more for others in the family living there. By law we are vulnerable and limited in defensive measures we can take. Crighton is no dummy and certainly has firsthand knowledge of this now. The standard dumb liberal response is "the number of times this happens is statistically so low and the mere presence of guns is so dangerous as to render the need for guns unnecessary and unwise in any circumstances."
The stupidity of this argument will likely be like a siren call to Crighton to write a tale illustrating its folly, now that he has firsthand experience with its lack of validity.
You make a lot of good points.
Let's hope Crichton is listening.
8^)
Fellow Spectator readers will note that last year the same thing happened to Ben Stein, who lives in a similar luxury home in Beverly Hills. Now he lives and travels with a studio-assigned bodyguard.
Let's hope Crichton is listening.
According to stuff on his website he is busy with writing and other projects for the next couple of years.
(But given the politically incorrect guy that he is, I would not be terribly surprised if he occasionally lurks here :-).
1) Leave that rotting cesspool Kalifornicationstan ASAP
2) Buy a gun
3) Practice shooting until proficient
Doomsday Book is by Connie Willis, if anyone wants to locate it, and is one of the best novels I've ever read.
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