Thursday, October 19, 2017
Hypocrisy in Action: Everytown Taps Hollywood to Campaign Against SHARE Act, National Reciprocity
Right. Hollywood stars once again telling us to promote gun control.
The same Hollywood that makes a shitload of money subjecting us to media gun violence.
Maybe we need a little bit of consistency in the message? Reject Hollywood's media violence, too. With your wallet.
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Fiction and fantasy. As if implying that fiction creates reality, then you're no different than the book burners who thought "Smut" was going to ruin society.
The better question is "What qualifications do these people have to inform my opinions on guns or law?"
At least Mike Weisser has some credentials....of course if you read his writing and how often he makes factual errors or directly contradicts reality, it puts those credentials in serious question, but at least he HAS them.
If I want to watch a funny movie I watch Melisa McCarthy, if I need my car fixed I go see my Mechanic, if I have chest pain and labored breathing I should probably go to an ER, and then the Cardiologist.
But asking my Cardiologist to fix my car, or my Mechanic to star in a high-grossing comedy is about as stupid to take any of these celebrities advice on gun laws.
Even worse, they're very open about it, this is a script they're all reading (hence the obnoxious jump-cuts) so we're not even taking the advice of celebrities, we're taking the advice of Michael Bloomberg, who is so hated he needs to hire actors to talk for him.
Not sure its that cut and dried.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/140/Supplement_2/S142
If that's the case, shouldn't we be more concerned about the myriad of ex-soldiers that not only grew up playing violet photo-realistic video games and watching bloody movies, but were actively trained to kill by the US Military to supply trigger pullers for what has been nearly 2 decades of shooting wars.
Back in the 90s games like DOOM were first hitting the scene, and sure people complained about flics like Pulp Fiction (but it was nothing new as far as violence and gore) but we hadn't had a large-scale shooting war since Viet Nam.
Meanwhile we had the greatest violent crime problem in the history of our nation in that decade.
Correlation does not equal causation, but you DO need correlation to imply causation.
I think your hypothesis is impossible.
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