The gun lobby is circling the wagons as public outrage grows over the slaughter of 20 small children and 6 educators in Newtown, Connecticut and President Obama weighs his executive power options to reign in runaway gun violence.
In the wake of the massacre, in which Adam Lanza shot his victims to pieces with a Bushmaster assault rifle, a CNN poll showed that 62 percent of Americans favor a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines. Nine out of 10 Americans want background checks on all gun sales.
In response, the National Rifle Association has dug its belligerent heels in, rejecting even discussingthe possibility of any sensible regulations. Instead, NRA mouthpiece Wayne LaPierre blamed entertainment violence for mass murder, but not firearms like the kind Lanza and his fellow mass murderers used to kill their victims.
LaPierre seems not to know the NRA museum recently featured “Hollywood Guns,” described on the NRA web site as “…a firsthand glimpse of some of the most famous firearms on the silver screen over the last 70 years.”
Included is the .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29 “Dirty Harry” Callahan used in spectacularly graphic style to off scores of movie bad guys.
Then there are the weapons used in Quentin Tarantino’s bloodbath, “Reservoir Dogs,” along with the suppressed Remington 11-87 used to slaughter the innocent and guilty in “No Country for Old Men.”
“Hollywood Guns spotlights 125 firearms that have thrilled movie goers for generations,” the NRA’s web site breathlessly promises.
Rather than abhorring entertainment violence, the NRA loves the enormous marketing potential when its weapons are featured in movies and television to glorify gun violence.
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The content of my post to DA was true and accurate. Perhaps if you read it again a few times you will be able to grasp my point.
Both Adams and Borden have responded to me on several occasions and now you, I am so lucky. So much for not paying any attention to me. Your point is?
Your stupid comments are no longer worth reading, much less responding to.
It ia no wonder Adams and Borden do not pay you any mind. I suspect that most readers do not.
Since you don't see how wrong you are involving this analogy, I will strongly suggest that you don't mention this to anyone who is Jewish, friend or not.
In the future, don't hit "post comment" until you get one of your "Jewish friends" to act as your editor.
NRA has a museum showcasing movies in which famous firearms were used. NRA bad.
Hollywood produces movies depicting gun violence of unimaginable horror. Hollywood good?
Fellow tin foil hat wearers out there in MDJ-land, 'splain it to me.
BTW, did you like the part in Resrvoir Dogs where Mr. Blond (Michael Madsen) sliced off the police officer's ear? Then, holding the severed ear up to his mouth, Mr. Blond spoke into it and said, "Hey, what's going on?"
Time to confiscate knives.
Some of my fiends had a big laugbh over your stupid NRA museum piece.
You gun cotnrol freaks are really getting deperate.
You better come up with something better than that or you are likely to get fired from your job as lead Cobb county lip flapper for the gun control nuts.
Dirty Harry and the Holocaust. Really?
Keep using a form of the phase, "some of my best friends are". It amplifies your narrow mindedness.
I can't wait until I tell my Jewish friends that the Holocaust museum is actually an endorsement of the attempt to annhialte the entire Jewish race by Hitler and his henchmen.
You must really be desperate to clutch at such a flimsy straw.
Give ti up.