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  • Looney Tunes Bans Cartoon Guns, Wounds Fans

    09/05/2024 11:22:53 AM PDT · by marktwain · 28 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | September 4, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
    Elmer Fudd in A Wild Hare, public domain wikimediacommonsThe sources are from four years ago. Looney Tunes decision to remove guns from the cartoon characters Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam is not a bad idea. It is positive in ways which are the opposite of what was intended. In an interview, the new Looney Tunes executive producer, Peter Browngart, makes clear the removal of guns from the cartoons was an ideological decision. From the New York Times:“We’re not doing guns,” Browngardt said. “But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”Yahoo...