Posted on 10/21/2016 9:54:00 AM PDT by rktman
THE moment in Sudden Impact has become legendary. Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is witness to a robbery and calmly tells the crooks that were not just gonna let you walk out of here. With a bemused expression, the would-be thief asks, whos we sucka? Smith and Wesson and me. And with that, Mr Eastwood saves the day with his beloved handgun.
It is a fitting scene for such an indefatigable supporter of the Second Amendment as Mr Eastwood (he has previously joked that he has a very strict gun control policy. If there is a gun around, I want to be in control of it). The film industry as a whole has become increasingly gun-friendly, according to the Internet Movie Firearms Database; their crowd-sourced data suggests that the median number of weapon models featured in films has increased by 11% from 1995 to 2015. Researchers also found that gun violence in PG-13 films has more than tripled since 1985; in recent years, it has even exceeded the violence of R-rated films.
The demand for them is there; action movies, once comprising only 4% of the top films in the 1930s, now make up around 34%.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
What’s a Glock 62?
This is the reality of modern life. There are millions of us who are armed every day in the normal course of our life. I never leave the home without being armed. Don't care where I'm going, or what I'm doing, I'm armed. Yet, somehow, I have never had occasion to pull it out even as a warning, much less actually fire the thing, except at a range.
Yet, the media is so obsessed with violence, that they can never show that. They can never acknowledge that a man just being a normal human being can be armed without coming up with some reason to destroy something or someone. It is sickening, and shows their heart clearer than anything else.
Too bad.
Oops. 26.
I work p/t for an FFL, and thought there was a model we’d somehow missed. Heh.
I’ve got seven of them. How’d everyone else do?
>>Researchers also found that gun violence in PG-13 films has more than tripled since 1985; in recent years, it has even exceeded the violence of R-rated films.<<
Programming America for gun control via the movies.
,,,”if there’s a gun around ,I want to Control it “
Clint used that line in,
PINK CADILLAC,1989.
You talkin bout ,
TOMBSTONE,,?
Well,Bye.
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