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Hollywierd Cheap Shot in FX special "44 Minutes"
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| BenLurkin
Posted on 06/05/2003 10:01:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Sorry for the vanity but if anyone has been watching the FX cable channel you may have seen the cheap shot which Hollywierd couln't resist taking at gun ownership. The special was a re-encactment of the North Hollywood shoot out a few years ago.
It was a fine moment for our couraeguos LAPD, but the producers turned the show into an anti-gun propaganda piece.
In particular was the moment when LAPD went to B & B Gun Sales in the valley to pick up rifles for use against the bank robbers. This actually happened. I have been to the B & B store in question (now closed). It was a great place and the owners were happy to help LADP by lending the use of their inventory in order to stop the bad guys.
Rather than recognize the civic service provided by the store, the producers of this rank crappy "special" chose to insert a line from a fictional police offer "I can't believe they let people buy these kind of guns".
Sickening. I am really P.O.d
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; bloat; hollyweird; hollywierd; leftwingpropaganda; rkba; shootout
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:01:13 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The media made it look like the robbers were armed with "assault rifles" that one can buy from a sporting goods store. I had to explain to my coworkers that the robbers had illegal fully auto AK-47 rifles that were sold in the criminal black market. The two robbers were Russian immigrants with a long criminal record and had connections in organized crime. They used their connections to buy Kevlar helmets, body armor and full automatic weapons. Weapons law abiding citizens can never access.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:07:20 PM PDT
by
Fee
To: BenLurkin
Sounds like business as usual, that's why I didn't watch it.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:07:48 PM PDT
by
agitator
(Ok, mic check...line one...)
To: BenLurkin
I thought the same thing when I watched that scene. I do remember the gun shop owner saying "how are you going to pay for all this?" and the cop replied "send a bill to the Mayor"
4
posted on
06/05/2003 10:12:32 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
To: agitator
Yes, I should have known better. Still . . .
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:16:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: Fee
If you're in Oregon or Nevada, or a few other states, and you have the dough to splash out for a 30-year-old $3,500 machine gun, and you pay your $200 transfer tax and wait six months, you can have a machine gun if you like.
Check out
http://www.frontsight.com/ - the Front Sight Resort in Nevada - they offer free machine gun training course, in order to get you hooked on the rest of the classes and thinking about buying a plot of land there.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:17:18 PM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: Pro-Bush
"send a bill to the Mayor" LOL, perfect! I hadn't heard that but it would have made better cinema.
Maybe this makes my point. Rather than use a great line from reality, these creeps had to put in a schlocky proganda line.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:18:20 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: Fee
I believe the armor was fully legal.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:18:42 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: agitator
First there was the Michael Mann TV movie, then there was the shootout, then there was the movie Heat (which I worked on), then there was the follow up TV movie. Art imitating life ad nauseum. Blah, blah, blah.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:22:18 PM PDT
by
nunya bidness
(It's not an assault weapon, it's a Homeland Defense Rifle.)
To: *bang_list
BANG!
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:23:58 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(There be no shelter here; the front line is everywhere!)
To: xm177e2
Wearing body armor becomes illegal if you're a convicted felon or if you use it during the comission of a crime.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:24:32 PM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: BenLurkin
Lib's made the gun store owner look greedy...FX usually has less biased original content.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:24:38 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
To: BenLurkin
Maybe B&B should have had the cops wait 5 days instead. dont want to break any laws.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:25:55 PM PDT
by
KOZ.
To: BenLurkin
FX is pretty PC frequently on other topics as well...best to avoid.
Sort of like getting your morning news from Yahoo's front page if you know what I mean.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:28:07 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(I was born my Papa's son....when I hit the ground I was on the run.....)
To: BenLurkin
I saw it Sunday night and had the same reaction. I didn't see it coming so it really stood out when it happened. My opinion of the movie did a reverse at that point; the way it transpired made it seem like the entire point of the movie.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:30:37 PM PDT
by
hmmmmm
To: KOZ.
Back then it was 15 days, and they cut it down to 10 days a few years back.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:30:37 PM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: nunya bidness
I like your tag line.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:35:13 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: KOZ.
Ex-actly!
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:35:39 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: hmmmmm
" . . . the way it transpired made it seem like the entire point of the movie"YUP!
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:36:33 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: BenLurkin
It's sad that they had to turn something so positive (relatively speaking) into something so PC. Will we never be fully rid of that PC garbage.
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posted on
06/05/2003 10:40:23 PM PDT
by
hmmmmm
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